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Crime Lords - Updated Edition
No. 1 Bestseller
Paul Williams

"…Paul Williams is the outstanding journalist of his generation."
- Joe Duffy, Liveline RTE

"Williams continues to be a thorn in organised crime’s side."
- RTE Guide

"…His work…has made him one of Ireland’s best-known journalists and a hate figure for some of the country’s most dangerous criminals."
- In Dublin

From the bestselling author of Evil Empire, Gangland and The General, Crime Lords tells of the appalling campaign of intimidation endured by Williams and his family; the hoax bomb attack and the cowardly people behind the plot. It investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dublin criminals the Westies, whose reign of terror ended abruptly in 2004 and exposes new information about the inter-family feuding that has brought chaos and murder to Limerick.

Crime Lords lifts the lid on the major godfathers, gangs and crimes dominating gangland today. For the first time Williams exposes the secret worlds of brutal gangsters like Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley, Joe ‘Cotton Eye’ Delaney, John ‘The Colonel’ Cunningham and George ‘The Penguin’ Mitchell, Ireland’s undisputed overlord of organised crime.

Crime Lords reveals the truth about the Republican terror group the INLA and its connections to drugs, protection rackets and murder. Paul William book is the first in the world to tell the extraordinary story of Europe’s most wanted drug trafficker, Mickey Green, the international gangster known as ‘The Pimpernel’, who used Ireland as his bolt hole from justice.

Crime Lords, the fastest selling crime book ever written in Ireland, tells the horrifying stories behind some of the most savage gangland murders of recent years.

Another chilling block buster from Williams, the master storyteller whose books read like thrillers but are terrifyingly true.