Product Description

Fact is often stranger than fiction - and when escaped drug baron and MI5 agent Roddy McLean was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better. McLean had only served 7 years of his 28-year sentence, following a 1996 sting operation off the Caithness coast in which a Customs officer lost his life. Described as one of the most ruthless and important figures on the country's drug scene, McLean had found his security status downgraded from Category A to D and had been transferred to HMP Leyhill, an open prison which had seen 82 prisoners escape in 2002 alone. Only four days after the media had accused the security services of helping him to escape, McLean's body was found. But not only did it take the Metropolitan Police 29 days to make it public, it took them that long to inform Avon and Somerset - the very police force who were still trying to recapture him. Why? Who was McLean and what made him so important? So important, in fact, that even the Home Secretary, David Blunkett MP, was compelled to order a report, much of which still remains secret to this day. The Roddy McLean Story is a truly unique account of his life, death - and the aftermath of both - told in the first-person using material from McLean's diary. Whether as a mercenary in the Congo, an armed robber in Newcastle or an international drug smuggler and gun runner, McLean will take you through his life as he struggles against the darkest realms of humanity - and himself - right until the very end; an end which overshadows the greatest secret of all - not of how he died, but of how he lived.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110680 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Wayne Thallon is Rod McLean's nephew and is an ex-civil servant and criminology graduate. He is now a full-time writer and divides his time between Edinburgh and Washington DC. This is his first book.

Customer Reviews

Amazing � just finished it!!!
Probably the best book I've ever read, never mind 'I couldn't put it down' - it picked me up, through me about and wouldn't let me go. McLean was some guy, dam clever and surprisingly humble - now I can see what all the fuss is about! It is barbarically bloody and gruesome - no doubt, but it manages to carry a depth to it as the story twists and turns until the end, an ending where a final twist will literally blow you away, I'm still picking myself up! Great read - well done Wayne!!!

Oh, and as for the clue to the whereabouts of his missing Hash, the nine million quid's worth that I read about in all the newspapers - I think I've figured where the pointers are, it's just the working out what they mean that's the hard part!

A real thriller!
I've read most of the true crime books written to date, but I think this one is a bit special. It will make you both laugh and cry - but as arguably one of the most gruesome books ever written, terrify. If it's sleepless nights your after - this is your book.!!!

Aggressive
The only way i can discribe this book is aggressive.
Excellent read once i started to read it i had to force myself to stop.

Very graphical and not for the light hearted.

Amazing like for a man who never knew when he was beat.

Worth reading just for chapter 1