Book description
Shadowland is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller
spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an
elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead.
The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of
gambling, guns and gangsters. Several veterans of the era are
astonished that they survived it and some feel protected enough - now
that most of the killers are themselves dead - to reveal to
bestselling author Douglas Thompson the details and secrets of one of
history's greatest criminal conspiracies, and of how world-champion
boxer Freddie Mills really died.
The tension in this real-life narrative is ferocious as the tale
moves from London to New York and Las Vegas, down to Miami, into
Havana, then on to the Bahamas and back to an unexpected denouement in
London. Brutal, terrifying and intrigue-packed, it is an account of
the Mob's Machiavellian global manipulation of governments and officials.
Shadowland recounts events from the viewpoint of the pawns as
well as the kingmakers. All the big players of Mafia history are here,
controlled by the gangster genius Meyer Lansky, but so are the hit
men, the fixers, the hoodlums and the wiseguys.
Douglas Thompson has written more than 20 books. He divides his time
between a medieval house in Suffolk and California.
