Cocaine Wars: 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and the Crumlin/Drimnagh Feud Book

Exposé of one of Gangland’s deadliest feuds - the truth behind 17 gruesome murders by the author ofThe Irish Scissor Sisters.In March 2000 a worker at a busy hotel in central Dublin complained to Gardai about three men who were acting suspiciously in one of the rooms and hadn’t emerged for over two days.When detectives raided the room, they uncovered a €1.7m drug-mixing factory and arrested the trio. Only two of the men were charged, which led to the third, Declan Gavin, being labelled as a ‘rat’ and effectively being handed a death sentence.Gavin was one of the leaders of a Crumlin/Drimnagh based drugs gang, and within 18 months of the seizure, he was brutally murdered outside a chip shop in Crumlin. Following Gavin’s murder the gang split, with one side supporting Brian Rattigan – Gavin’s arch enemy – and the other half teaming up with criminal ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson. War was declared, and over the course of a ten year feud, well over a dozen young men have been murdered in tit for tat killings. Gardaí have investigated hundreds of violent incidents.Cocaine Wars tells, for the first time, the story of the country’s deadliest Gangland feud. From the growth of the gang under the tutelage of notorious criminals John Gilligan and Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley, to the brutal way in which they established themselves as one of Dublin’s most feared drugs mobs, Cocaine Wars chronicles the shocking history of the Crumlin/Drimnagh feud.For the first time the stories behind the feud are revealed, including: The mother who has lost two of her sons to the feud; the jailed criminal orchestrating murders from one of the country’s high-securityprisons; and the women and families who remain loyal to the feuding gangsters. From the dedicated Gardai fighting to keep a lid on the violence to the next generation of thugs who have vowed to continue to the bloodshed.Cocaine Wars is a must read page turner that is guaranteed to shock and enthrall readers in equal measure.Read More