Book description
As a young man in Glasgow's underworld, Ian 'Blink' MacDonald fought,
robbed and slashed his way to the top, developing a taste for the high
life along the way. His notoriety earned him an offer of work from
Scotland's most feared gangster, Arthur Thompson, but MacDonald had
other plans: to finance a new life in Spain with the
multimillion-pound proceeds of a high-risk armed bank robbery. But the
job went badly wrong, and MacDonald was jailed for 16 years.
In prison, he met scores of high-profile inmates, including
torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, high-society serial killer Archie
Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and Ronnie O'Sullivan senior,
father of the snooker star.
On his release, MacDonald became a magnet for trouble, enjoying a
hedonistic, drug-fuelled lifestyle and finding himself drawn into
conflict with police, gangsters and businessmen. Rearrested several
times, he was the target of more than one terrifying murder attempt.
In Blink, MacDonald provides an eye-opening account of his
highly eventful journey through life in Glasgow's brutal gangland.
Ian MacDonald was born in Glasgow and spent much of his youth in
approved schools and prison. He ran a successful bar before being
jailed in 1993 for a failed bank robbery. He has now turned his back
on crime and lives quietly in his home town.
David Leslie worked for the News of the World for over four
decades before retiring and is now a freelance journalist and author.
His other titles include the bestselling Crimelord, The
Happy Dust Gang, The Gangster's Wife and The Hate Factory.
