Product Description

Only a month after his arrest for planting bombs which killed three and mutilated scores, Nazi nailbomber David Copeland began a passionate correspondence with a delightful young English rose called Patsy. As he awaited trial, Copeland bombarded Patsy with letters detailing his disturbed background, crackpot beliefs and most intimate feelings. Through letters alone he fell madly in love with his tender-hearted pen-friend. But Copeland wasn't writing to the petite 20-year-old blonde of his imagination. His 'sweetheart' was in fact a burly 40-year-old nightclub bouncer called Bernard O'Mahoney, who in the past had used the same means to coax confessions from two child-killers. O'Mahoney's earlier hoaxes helped secure life sentences for these child-killers and so too did his correspondence with Copeland when the letters surfaced at the nailbomber's Old Bailey trial. But the remarkable story of how O'Mahoney snared Copeland is only a small part of Hateland's larger, more remarkable story. For the book is primarily the narrative of O'Mahoney's own gradual transition from Nazi thug to Nazi opponent. It marks his public renunciation of the hate-filled world he left behind and of the hate-

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44226 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Bernard O'Mahoney is the author of a number of true crime books, including the bestselling Essex Boys, The Dream Solution and Wannabe in My Gang? He also wrote of his experiences in the army and on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland in Soldier of the Queen. Mick McGovern has worked on television documentaries and written for The Observer and the New Statesman. He co-wrote and Killing Rage and, with Bernard O'Mahoney, Soldier of the Queen.

Customer Reviews

Loved it.
I bought this book after accidently stumbling across his website and wasn't dissapointed. The Copeland letters while facinating are only a small part of the book. For the main part it is the story of O'Mahoney's own fascinating life. I simply could not put it down and found myself going through every conceivable emotion, some stories are sickening, others are hilarious and I even found myself crying at the end. I would totally recomend this book.