Product Description

The Conspiracy Continues ...Paul Ferris ruled crime in Scotland. He had links to London firms, Manchester gangs and Liverpool faces. He?d been accused of murdering The Godfather?s son, Fatboy, and found not guilty. Some cops talked of killing him. But when he was released from prison in 2002 he told the world and the waiting press that he was walking away from his life of crime. But would they let him? As soon as his car sped away, the journalists were after him. And they weren?t the only ones ...Vendetta tells the astonishing inside story of what happened next to Paul Ferris. And it?s a story of international gangsters, hit contracts, murders, bank scams, Essex-boy torturers, corrupt politics, crack-head hit-men, knife duels, securi-wars, drugs, guns, Yardies, terrorists and more. In Vendetta, Paul Ferris slashes open the underbelly of Britain?s streets and exposes the dark forces that police them as well as revealing the truth about what really happened to him and about the conspiracies and corruption that won?t leave him alone. For years, new enemies and old foes have tried to silence Paul Ferris. But it?s Ferris who?s here to tell the tale while many of them are not. And some tale it is.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20203 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Reg McKay is a leading authority on crime and criminals and the author of numerous true-crime titles including the best-sellers The Ferris Conspiracy and The Last Godfather. Paul Ferris now runs a security firm. The story of his life as a career criminal is set to be made into a film with Robert Carlyle taking the lead as the 'Wee Man', just one of the many nicknames Ferris has had over the years.

Customer Reviews

RAT RACE
VENDETTA is intended to show young impressionable people that a life of crime has no happy ending. Although the book is informative and very detailed it sends out the right messages to the people who like myself thought crime was glamorous reading this book those very same people should stop and think and to get out of the RAT RACE.As for all of you who like true crime it is a great read.

Totally absorbing read, first class!
'Vendetta: Turning Your Back on Crime Can Be Deadly....' is an excellent follow up to the much acclaimed first effort from the crime-writing due of Reg McKay and Paul Ferris 'The Ferris Conspiracy '. Anyone who liked the first book will thoroughly enjoy this one.

This time around the focus is based mainly on the post childhood/Thompson family/murder case area of Paul Ferris's life, and concentrates more on his time spent in prison and his subsequent efforts to claw his way back into legitimate business and to turn over a new leaf. Ferris in this book is every bit just as witty, sharp, and unassuming as he was in his first book.

Although 'Vendetta' tells of Paul's attempts to turn his life around and appears geared toward letting impressionable youngsters realise that the "gangster" lifestyle is far from glamorous and is not a wise 'career choice' for anyone, it still does not lack mention of violent incidents and equally violent individuals from cities the length and breadth of the UK.

All in all 'Vendetta' is an absorbing read, a book the reader will find hard to put down until he or she has read the very last page. Paul Ferris seems to be a brutally honest individual where his thoughts on certain people are concerned, no one escapes his witty, dry sense of humour not least himself.

A must read book!

Half turning your back on crime.
Paul Ferris remains in thrall to crime and criminals, even if he doesn't participate any more.This book is a disingenuous attempt to play Mr straight whilst associating with men of violence. Ferris himself has blood on his hands : he may resist the urge to hand out his kind of justice but nowhere does he show any contrition for past deeds which were, frankly, evil.And let us not be duped by the old chestnut that criminals only hurt their own: this is a fallacy and, of course, completely illogical.Criminals make their money by preying on the weak and yet Ferris seems unable to grasp- or at least admit- this, all the while maintaining tha he hates bullies.
He complains about injustice! Doesn't every criminal suddenly discover their allegiance to justice when they are wrongly accused?But, when they "get away" with their crimes that's fair game- and never mind the injustices suffered by the victims.I should thionk that the reaction of most straight people is" couldn't care less if some psychopath is taken off the street, by any means."Then, of course, Ferris doesn't see the criminal fraternity in this light. He would have us believe that his criminal friends are honouirable men who live by some heightened existential , moral code.( Tell that to the victims.)There are, however, the lower type of criminals ie the ones that Ferris dislikes.They, naturally, are snitches, grasses and cowards, unable to operate in Ferris' moral firmament.
This book would, perhaps, have displayed a scintilla of credibilty if Ferris had admitted to, and given some detail of the crimes he did commit. Instead , we are provided with endless protestations of innocence. I am surprised he hasn't put himself forward for Pope.
If you want to read about a real hard Glaswegian who went straight and took a honest look at his life of crime , read Jimmy Boyle's book.