Book description
Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you.
Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug
barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided
their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence
until they paid up. Through 'taxing' the richest and most powerful
crimelords in the UK, he netted over £20 million.
French was no ordinary criminal. He was a world-champion fighter, he
studied psychology at university to master mind-control techniques,
and he used the teachings of Machiavelli and samurai warriors to
outwit his enemies. The Devil also reveals French's complex
relationship with Curtis Warren, the wealthiest criminal in British
history. The two were childhood pals, then partners and finally bitter enemies.
Now a legitimate businessman, French built up a multimillion-pound
empire. Having eventually turned his back on his former life, he is
now seeking to set the record straight.
Graham Johnson is the author of the bestselling
Powder Wars
,
Football and Gangsters
and
Druglord
. He is a former investigations editor at the
Sunday Mirror
and during ten years on Fleet Street covered subjects including child
slavery, people smuggling, drugs and the Balkan wars.
