New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Mainstream Press 2005 April-June

File Updated: 16/12/2006

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Mainstream Press APRIL-JUNE 2005

Christopher Chance The Lone Brit on 13 Pbk published May 2005 by Mainstream Press at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1840189576

A Prisoner's Hell in Spain's Toughest Jail.
The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned for almost two years for drug-smuggling, the lone Brit on Wing 13, Chance, reveals the horrors he experienced among cut-throat villains and screws in the netherworld of the Spanish prison system. Chance takes to writing in his dank prison cell in an attempt to escape his surroundings, and recalls various episodes in his life: his time serving as a soldier in Thailand and Malaysia; his involvement with the 3 Para snatch-squad in the 1970s Belfast; and his subsequent descent into drug dealing and trafficking, which culminated in a high-speed boat chase and his imprisonment in a top-security Spanish jail. While inside, Chance fought his way to the surface of a cesspool of iniquitous scumbags using his fists: the only effective means of being understood in an environment of desecrated morality and non-existent integrity. With predators lurking everywhere, Chance had to be constantly on guard, and in order to survive he had to be mentally prepared to inflict the necessary violent retribution on any would-be attacker or racist thug. As the sole British inmate, Chance was a prime target for the intimidating Spanish hardmen who thrived on cruelty and treachery. But his martial arts skills and Samurai philosophy proved to be more than a match for the aggressors. Once a respected and successful businessman admired by his peers - he had operated his own martial arts business in Spain before being jailed - Chance took one wrong turn in life and lost everything except the love and support of his loyal wife. On eventually gaining his freedom, Chance's goal was to return to the straight-and-narrow and endeavour to bring happiness back into the lives of his family. The Lone Brit on 13 is the genuine account of an adrenalin-addicted Englishman single-handedly defeating intimidation, racism and potential drug addiction in the bleak surroundings of a Spanish jail. It is a shocking and controversial read that will offend, amuse and ultimately entertain with its unflinching honesty and brutal realism.

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Eugene Costello White Gold: Inside Story - UK's Largest Drugs Haul Pbk published May 2005 by Mainstream Press at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1840189827

Scotland On Sunday The story unfurls with pace, veering between outright farce, drunken violence and the chilling proximity of the truly despicable.
FHM magazine A great story, chock full of detail and hilarious characters... Whiskey Galore with class As.
Ross-Shire Journal A thrilling tale, seen from the eyes of both the hunters and the hunted...
Mail on Sunday A grimly fascinating tale of a life lived on the wrong side of the tracks --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Throughout the '70s and '80s, the Highland fishing village of Ullapool was a tough place to make a living. With huge Eastern bloc factory ships buying up the local catch, however, there was money to be made for those who had the stomach and the balls for it. Renowned for its lawlessness - drinking and fighting offered the Friday-night entertainment - it was no place for the squeamish. One man was gaining quite a reputation for himself locally - Chris Howarth, known to everyone as 'Crazy Chris'. In the summer of '89, he met an expatriate Scot living in Malaga (referred to as 'Mr X' in the subsequent trial) who offered him some work of a dubious nature and set in motion a chain of events that would lead to what would be the UK's largest ever drugs haul. Around the same time, working on a tip-off from a local informant and intelligence from their Spanish counterparts, Customs and Excise became aware of a major plot to smuggle huge amounts of drugs into the UK around Ullapool. As a result of this information, Operation Klondyke was born. For the next 18 months, Howarth and 'Mr X' would be under constant surveillance. The trail would lead from Ullapool and the east coast of Scotland to the Costa del Sol, Gibraltar and Venezuela. It would uncover distribution channels from Colombia's notorious Cali cartel to Europe and North America, operated by ruthless Spanish smuggling outfits. And it would finally lead to the UK's most valuable seizure of drugs on a Scottish road as it was being transported down to the lucrative London market - half a tonne of virtually pure Colombian cocaine. White Gold at last tells the inside story of Operation Klondyke - seen from the eyes of both the hunters and the hunted.

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Nicholas Davies Dead Men Talking Pbk published May 2005 by Mainstream Press at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1840189479

Following the revelations of the secret conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunmen of the Ulster Defence Association in Ten-Thirty-Three, Nicholas Davies now dramatically reveals the evidence and facts that the Sir John Stevens Inquiry is still trying to establish regarding links between the security services and loyalist terrorist groups. In Dead Men Talking, Davies exclusively details the covert killing operations planned, organised and carried through by the RUC Special Branch and MI5, as well as by the British Army's covert intelligence organisation, the Force Research Unit. He provides new evidence on the killings that were authorised at the highest level of MI5 and the British Government, and carried out by loyalist terror groups. Davies also reveals the existence of a hitherto unknown secret intelligence unit operating under MI5 and examines its role in the government's undercover operation. Davies traces the work carried out by the legendary 'Steak Knife', the British super-spy who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Provisional IRA and passed their secrets to MI5 over a 30-year period. For the first time, Davies gives details of Steak Knife's extraordinary life, reveals some of the Provo bombings and shootings which he thwarted, and details vital secrets he passed to British Intelligence. Dead Men Talking uncovers the true story of the murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane, of UDA gunman William Stobie and the subsequent murders of others allegedly involved. Ten-Thirty-Three provided dramatic evidence for the Stevens Inquiry. Now, once again, Davies provides more extraordinary material for the inquiry team to investigate.

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O'Mahoney B & M McGovern Hateland Pbk published April 2005 by Mainstream Press at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1840187964

Only a month after his arrest for planting bombs which killed three and mutilated scores, Nazi nailbomber David Copeland began a passionate correspondence with a delightful young English rose called Patsy. As he awaited trial, Copeland bombarded Patsy with letters detailing his disturbed background, crackpot beliefs and most intimate feelings. Through letters alone he fell madly in love with his tender-hearted pen-friend. But Copeland wasn't writing to the petite 20-year-old blonde of his imagination. His 'sweetheart' was in fact a burly 40-year-old nightclub bouncer called Bernard O'Mahoney, who in the past had used the same means to coax confessions from two child-killers. O'Mahoney's earlier hoaxes helped secure life sentences for these child-killers and so too did his correspondence with Copeland when the letters surfaced at the nailbomber's Old Bailey trial. But the remarkable story of how O'Mahoney snared Copeland is only a small part of Hateland's larger, more remarkable story. For the book is primarily the narrative of O'Mahoney's own gradual transition from Nazi thug to Nazi opponent. It marks his public renunciation of the hate-filled world he left behind and of the hate-

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Wayne Thallon Cut-throat: The Vicious World of Rod McLean Pbk published May 2005 by Mainstream Press at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1840189754

The Vicious World of Rod McLean - Mercenary, Gunrunner and International Drug Baron

Fact is often stranger than fiction - and when escaped drug baron and MI5 agent Roddy McLean was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better. McLean had only served 7 years of his 28-year sentence, following a 1996 sting operation off the Caithness coast in which a Customs officer lost his life. Described as one of the most ruthless and important figures on the country's drug scene, McLean had found his security status downgraded from Category A to D and had been transferred to HMP Leyhill, an open prison which had seen 82 prisoners escape in 2002 alone. Only four days after the media had accused the security services of helping him to escape, McLean's body was found. But not only did it take the Metropolitan Police 29 days to make it public, it took them that long to inform Avon and Somerset - the very police force who were still trying to recapture him. Why? Who was McLean and what made him so important? So important, in fact, that even the Home Secretary, David Blunkett MP, was compelled to order a report, much of which still remains secret to this day.
The Roddy McLean Story is a truly unique account of his life, death - and the aftermath of both - told in the first-person using material from McLean's diary. Whether as a mercenary in the Congo, an armed robber in Newcastle or an international drug smuggler and gun runner, McLean will take you through his life as he struggles against the darkest realms of humanity - and himself - right until the very end; an end which overshadows the greatest secret of all - not of how he died, but of how he lived.

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