New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Mainstream Press
2002 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Mainstream Press
OCT-DEC 2002
Billy Cribb
Tarmac Warrior
Pbk published October 2002 by Mainstream Press at £7.99
ISBN: 1840186755
Billy Cribb was born into a Romani/Jewish family and spent most of his childhood travelling. His early years were marred by the racism and bigotry his family endured at the hands of small-minded locals in the villages where they worked. These random attacks planted seeds of anger and hatred in Billy which later manifested in his fighting - for Billy Cribb became one of the greatest bare-knuckle fighters of his generation. Revealing an underground fight scene, this title traces Billy's career from his first fights on the motorways and A roads around Britain onto the cross channel ferries which provided an arena for many of his early fights. It then follows Billy's move to Majorca, giving an insight into what really goes on on this Mediterranean island: the timeshare racketeering, extortion and organized crime. Billy goes on to recount his move to the USA, where he sank deeper into the world of drugs and violence. He becomes a debt-collector for the Mafia and a star fighter in the Mafia-run fight syndicates of New York and later the cult fight circuit in California. Years later he returned to Britain as a reformed drug addict who had found religion.
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Jordan H & Lister D
Mad Dog - Rise & Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company
Published November 2002 by Mainstream Press at £14.99
ISBN: 1840187913
A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? From humble beginnings as a car thief on Belfast's Shankill Road, Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair rose through the ranks of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters to head their merciless killing machine, 'C Company'. Surrounded by his trusted cohorts, Adair's reign of terror in the early 1990s claimed the lives of several dozen Roman Catholics. His men were kept in line by the profits of drug dealing and the threat, as Adair once put it, of 'one behind the ear'.
Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company describes in graphic detail Adair's illegal empire and his bloody war against Catholics and anyone else who got in his way. The book charts Adair's meteoric rise to fame, halted only briefly by his imprisonment in 1995 for directing terrorism, but also his humiliating downfall. In a single dramatic night in 2003, his power base was stripped from him and his friends and family were chased out of Northern Ireland. It was a degrading end for a man who had commanded fanatical loyalty among his followers.
With Adair back in prison until 2005, the final chapter of this astonishing story has yet to be written. One thing, however, is certain: we have not heard the last of Johnny Adair. Will he live out the rest of his life in obscurity or has he one last trick up his sleeve?
Hugh Jordan is the senior crime reporter with the Sunday World and author of Milestones in Murder.
David Lister is Ireland Correspondent for The Times.
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