Find Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers Narrated By Graham Johnson Shown In Document
account of Liverpool Gangster turning against major drug dealer, A powerful true account of organised crime in Liverpool, It was well written and eyeopening, Fascinating story, well presented
The beans of the book is ofcourse how he came to be a grass but the first half where he just rattles off the bullshit he was upto as a criminal is also great A gritty account of growing up as a member of one of Liverpool's crime families.
Paul Grimes steps you through his I stress his account of being a career criminal, From shop lifting in Bootle to nationwide drug importing, Grimes crossed paths with the likes of Curtis Warren and John Hasse, later putting them away when he turned grass due to his son dying of an overdose.
This book is split into two with Graham Johnson giving background information to Grimes' firstperson account,
The book is a good read, however it's ruined by Grimes' poor justification for turning "grass" informer, He happy laughs off attacking people with claw hammers and throwing people out of cars but preaches that those who sell drugs are the scum of the earth.
Such hypocrisy is comical. Read this book some years ago and could not put it down, Opens your ryes and confirms your suspicions of the gangland culture operating in Liverpool, Gangster Paul Grimes was a oneman crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal, Any villains who got in his way were made to pay often with their
blood, But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the oldschool mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpoolbased heroin and cocaine dealers, Against all odds, he turned undercover informant,
The first gangster to fall foul of Grimes' change of heart was Curtis Warren, aka 'Cocky', the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history, Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, putting Warren in the dock in the drugs trial of the twentieth century.
After turning his attention to heroin baron John Haase, Grimes rose to become the boss of the villain's notoriously bloodthirsty 'security firm' a professional gang of racketeers addicted to cocaine, explosive violence and nonstop criminality.
But as his net began to tighten, Grimes was confronted with the ultimate dilemma, He discovered his second son was now a rising star in the drugs business, The lifeordeath question was: should he shop him or not
Powder Wars also reveals the secrets behind one of the most controversial episodes in British judicial history how former Home Secretary Michael Howard was duped into granting John Haase a Royal Pardon.
Today, Paul Grimes has a,contract on his head and is a reallife dead man walking, Powder Wars is a riveting account of modern gangsters told in brutal detail, There is than one author in the database with this name, Not all books on this profile belong to the same person, .