When the mob bosses wanted to eliminate someone who was a threat or a rival, or who had simply outlived their usefulness, a contract was issued to a middleman or broker who hired the hit man. This arrangement meant that the puppet master was completely insulated from the eventual killing. Murder ...
While he possessed a natural talent for impersonation or what he liked to call mimicry, the weight of history and family tradition was against him. His father, Dr John Glaister, ‘Old John’, as he would be called to differentiate him from his progeny of the same name, was a Glasgow general practit...