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With the rise of the Licensee and his former associates, including Paul Ferris, Glasgow Gangsters highlights the downfall of the Thompson family empire and how this changed the face of Glasgow's underworld forever. It provides an in-depth analysis of each gangster, detailing their routes to infamy and notoriety in the Eighties and Nineties, and formulates a gangster family tree, offering a unique overview of Glasgow's underworld and the first insight into how the many factions interlinked and fought against each other over the decades. This highly topical book details events as they progress to the present day and takes a shocking peek into the modern day underworld, showing how it is dominated by ruthless gangsters including the McGovern family, Grant MacIntosh, Bobby Dempster and Paul Johnston. It looks at the relationship between Glasgow's underworld and international crime consortiums and British underworld figures in Liverpool and London, as well as direct links between the IRA and the UVF and leading drug operators in the West Coast of Scotland. Controversial and gripping throughout, Glasgow Gangsters contains information culled from exclusive interviews with retired police and customs officers, active CID officers, crime journalists, and with many of the gangsters featured in the book.