Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83821 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-12
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
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-

Customer Reviews

If you don't control your anger, it will control you.
A genuine page turner, powerful and engaging. Cogently describes why hate can destory lives. Why people should try to rise above it.

A lot of authors who have lived on the wrong side of the law, when they come to write their life stories are narcissitic pratts, they paint themselves as being the sharpest card in the pack. O'Mahnoney isn't one of them. Instead he's open, candid and honest. He paints things as they are. Sometimes quite graphically.

The descriptions of Copeland are fair and unflattering. People would have sympathy for him, if hadn't embarked on his bombing spree. Instead he let his anger control his life and subsequently destroy his life and many others. There is no justification for what he did.

This is the kind of book that makes you realise how dangerous and pointless anger is. Once you appreaciate the consequences of anger and hate you don't want to go there. The best way to control anger is to think of the consequences. Which is what this books so very clearly spells out.

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.