Powder Wars
The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers
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4.3 • 46 Ratings
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- £9.99
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Publisher Description
Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine dealers. Against all odds, he turned undercover informant.
The first gangster to fall foul of Grimes' change of heart was Curtis Warren, aka 'Cocky', the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history. Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, putting Warren in the dock in the drugs trial of the twentieth century.
After turning his attention to heroin baron John Haase, Grimes rose to become the boss of the villain's notoriously bloodthirsty 'security firm' - a professional gang of racketeers addicted to cocaine, explosive violence and non-stop criminality. But as his net began to tighten, Grimes was confronted with the ultimate dilemma. He discovered his second son was now a rising star in the drugs business. The life-or-death question was: should he shop him or not?
Powder Wars also reveals the secrets behind one of the most controversial episodes in British judicial history - how former Home Secretary Michael Howard was duped into granting John Haase a Royal Pardon.
Today, Paul Grimes has a £100,000 contract on his head and is a real-life dead man walking. Powder Wars is a riveting account of modern gangsters told in brutal detail.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant book
Just a brilliant book as tho it was written from his own lips the slag and the sayings I loved it well worth it
Powder wars
The book is ok,takes a while to get started,but a good insight into some people I worked with years ago, and never knew what was going on behind the scenes in liverpool lol
Silliest bunch of tall tales I’ve ever read.
I particularly enjoyed the story how Grimes and another fella battered a bunch of 6 thugs who were armed with swords, metal bars and a machete. Battered all 6 of them with bare hands.. think grimes’s mate might have been Chuck Norris tbh so I’ll let that slide.
Then there’s the constant “I could have massacred them all on the spot” (but he never does)
There’s a reference to a film that wasn’t made for another 10 years after the story it’s referenced in is set..
The weird bits of Nadsat language and random clockwork orange references and the cringe inducing dialogue that no Liverpudlian ever actually says... knowmean?
No mate.. I don’t think I do...
Absolute work of fiction.
According to Grimes Every hard case in Liverpool over the last 30 years is apparently terrified of this fella
More Joey Boswell than John Dillinger
So bad it’s almost a good read.