Legacy : gangsters, corruption and the London Olympics
Gillard, Michael2021
Book
When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable strip of land. Using violence, guile and corruption, one gangster, the Long Fella, emerged as a true untouchable. A team of local detectives made it their business to take him on until Scotland Yard threw them under the bus and the business of putting on 'the greatest show on earth' won the day. Award-winning journalist Michael Gillard took up where they left off to expose the tangled web of chief executives, big banks, politicians and dirty money where innocent lives are destroyed and the guilty flourish.
Main title:
Legacy : gangsters, corruption and the London Olympics / by Michael Gillard.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Reader, 2021.
Collation:
xi, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781448217434 (pbk)1448217431 (pbk)9781448217427 (ebook)
Dewey class:
796.4809 GIL796.4809
LC class:
GV722 2012
Language:
English
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BRN:
377333