Gunned down in broad daylight on his own home patch in 1998, the young man's murder seemed like just another street squabble between drug dealers, and the police marked the file unsolved. But in a one-mile stretch of Glasgow's slums, the victim's bodies started falling, disappearing, overdosing, and meeting accidents. The police were at a loss. This is the story of organized crime gone paranoid and turning in on itself, seen through unusual eyes. Kay, a call-girl by profession, was a member of the inner circle of one of the countries most vicious gangs. Raised in a rural middle-class home, she spent her teenaged years in rough housing schemes, and was conned into prostitution by her mother. After a chance meeting with a gangster in a bar, she was recruited by him as his confidante. Soon she was carrying a loaded gun. She took a lover, the gang's equalizer, who was the young man gunned down in the street. For Kay it was the start of her way out.

Armed Candy: A True-Life Story of Organised Crime

Biographies & Memoirs

McKay, Reg

Community & Culture

Mainstream Publishing

Addison is wanted for many crimes, but he has never been seen. When a pimp is shot in Glasgow, it seems just another gangland murder, but not for Grimes, underworld boss and the dead man's brother. When word leaks out that Addison was the killer, Grimes wants revenge. But how do you catch a ghost?

Deadly Divisions: The Spectre Chronicles

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

FERRIS, PAUL

Mystery

One dark night in London during the 1960s, the city's famous twins in crime, the Krays, were holding court in their busy nightclub when they were told somebody wanted to see them. This in itself was audacious enough but what happened next simply beggared belief. There, on the Krays' home turf, the stranger who had made this bold request pulled a sawn-off shotgun from under his coat and demanded that Ron kiss his brother Reg's arse. As Ron knelt and complied with what he'd been asked to do, the grim-faced man smirked and, in a strong Glasgow accent, announced, 'Ma name's Arthur Thompson - ye'll remember me!' Backing out and still holding the gun, Thompson jumped into a waiting cab and sped off through the streets of London This is the opening of The Last Godfather, the true story of Arthur Thompson as it has never been told before. Reg McKay goes back to trace Thompson's criminal life from his apprenticeship as bouncer and heavy for the mobs, his graduation to armed bank robber and through to his rise to the top of the UK's criminal world. Once he had attained this postition, keeping hold of it was never going to be easy and Thompson had to fight constantly to maintain his status as top dog in a world where violence ruled. McKay covers the many 'contracts' taken out on Thompson's life and how he managed to survive the hit men who were out to get him. He also explores the private tragedies the man endured and his possible affiliation with Irish paramilitaries. Thompson supposedly died in his bed of a heart attack but McKay suggests the cause of death may well have been due to something much more sinister...

The Last Godfather : The Life and Crimes of Arthur Thompson

Black and White Publishing

No one could rule bloody Glasgow, they said. Arthur Thompson proved them all wrong. From a normal working class family, Thompson started out as a bouncer, minder and bagman. Hard, bright, he learned young. Cross him-you were scarred. Cheat him-he nailed you to the floor. The gangsters of Glasgow thought it couldn't get worse. It did. For forty years Thompson ruled Glasgow's mean streets, always devising new terror. 
This fully revised edition of The Last Godfather visits places no law-abiding person has been. Gun-running, murders, drug dealing and torture are still there. But there's much more. How he improved on crucifixion. Created Europe's Tartan Mafia. Invented concrete boots. Then there's his impact on others such as death by sniper, kidnap from London and torture in Glasgow-and why he decided to do nothing about the Ice Cream Wars. 
Thompson died of natural causes but his influence didn't stop at his grave, which was left unmarked for fear of gravediggers. This new edition explains and describes the aftermath in detail for the first time. Revenge from beyond the grave-the kidnapper killed. Hexed-his enemies since murdered yet the cases remain unsolved. Twice torched -who was so desperate to get rid of his old HQ? The good daughter's curse. The runt's tale and the end of the line. There couldn't be another-Arthur Thompson was the Last Godfather.

The Last Godfather: The Life And Crimes of Arthur Thompson

True Crime

Black & White Pub Ltd

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