Gangster - John Mooney

The definitive biography of John Gilligan, the biggest drugs trafficker to emerge from the Irish underworld. Mooney delivers an extraordinary account of how a young Dubliner became a multi-millionaire criminal. He uses first-hand interviews with Gilligan and his thugs, friends, family, enemies, anti-drugs activists, members of the IRA and the police. Gilligan's biography tells of violence, kidnapping, shootings, criminal espionage, drug dealing and how criminal gangs vied for power to control the Irish trade in drugs.