Book description
It used to be thought that no single person could rule the mean
streets of Glasgow. Arthur Thompson proved this to be wrong. From an
ordinary working-class family, Thompson started out as a bouncer and
minder. Hard yet bright, he learned quickly. Cross him and you'd be
scarred. Cheat him and he nailed you to the floor, crucifixionstyle.
The gangsters of Glasgow thought it couldn't get any worse Â- it did.
For forty years, Thompson ruled Glasgow and there came a time when his
capacity for violence became so boundless that people would pray to be
crucified. This fully revised edition of The Last Godfather visits
places no law-abiding person has been. The gunrunning, murders, drug
dealing and torture are all still there but there's much more Â-
atrocities like how he improved on crucifixion as a means of revenge,
how he created Europe's Tartan Mafia, how he invented concrete boots
as a failsafe way of disposing of enemies' corpses. Then there are the
ways he has had an impact on the lives and, more importantly, deaths
of others Â- one man killed by a sniper, another kidnapped in London
and tortured for days in Glasgow. Thompson died of natural causes but
his influence didn't stop at his grave Â- which, incidentally, was
deliberately left unmarked in case someone he'd had a run-in with
decided to dig him up and wreak some kind of horrible revenge. This
new edition includes previously unexplored aspects of Thompson's
legacy and investigates the reasons there could never be another gang
lord as all-powerful as Arthur Thompson Â- why he was destined to
become The Last Godfather.
