Powder wars - Graham Johnson

Powder Wars is the true story of the supergrass who brought down Britain's biggect drug dealers. Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. He robbed safes, banks, lorries, warehouses, even whole buildings. Villians who got in his way were shot, stabbed, tortured, thrown out of windows and ejected from speeding cars. But when his son died of a heroin overdose, the old-school mobster turned undercover informant, swearing revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based drug dealers flooding Britain with 'powder'.Focusing initially on Curtis Warren, the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history, Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, worth 260 million, putting Warren in the dock at the drugs trail of the 20th century. He then turned his attention to notorious heroin dealer John Haase. Grimes rose to become the boss of Hasse's 'security firm' - a professional gang of rapid-fire, round-the-clock racketeers addicted cocaine, explosive violence and non-stop criminality. In the morning they would take delivery of six kilos of heroin,in the afternoon they would send a cache of guns to Scotland and in the evening they would petrol bomb a nightclub. And then they would go to work - as doormen on Liverpool's buzzing and brutal nightclub scene. They would fight gun-slinging turf wars with rival door teams, kidnap drug dealers and broker the sale of swag - lorry loads of stolen whisky and designer sportswear worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Paul Grimes has a 10,000 contract on his head, a real-live dead man walking. POWDER WARS is an account of modern gansters told in fascinatig, brutal detail.