{"product_id":"fat-freddie-pb-w2","title":"Stephen Breen: FAT FREDDIE W2 [2020] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe No 1 Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating read' Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio One\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was sixteen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next twenty years his criminal career would be marked by mayhem, brutality and murder.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2000 a row over a failed drugs deal ignited a murderous feud in Dublin's south inner city. The Crumlin-Drimnagh feud's first victim was a friend of Thompson's and he led his Crumlin crew in a series of tit-for-tat killings. Sixteen young men would lose their lives over the next fifteen years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, childhood friend, Daniel Kinahan, had become a senior figure in his father Christy Kinahan's international crime cartel. Working with the Kinahan Cartel Thompson launched himself as a drugs dealer in Dublin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen another deadly feud broke out in 2016 - between the powerful Kinahans and veteran Dublin criminal, Gerry 'The Monk ' Hutch - Thompson was ready to get his hands dirty. But Thompson's loyalty would be his undoing. In August 2018 he was convicted of murder and jailed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFat Freddie \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping account of the rise and fall of Freddie Thompson. Award-winning crime journalist, Stephen Breen, co-author of the No 1 bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e, has written the definitive portrait of a notorious Dublin gangster, a shocking story of double-crossing, vengeance and murder.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breen, Stephen","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":52451810345299,"sku":"XG80241986660","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51660589072723,"sku":"XV80241986660","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44191852822818,"sku":"9780241986660","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/breen-stephen-stephen-breen-fat-freddie-w2-2020-paperback-9780241986660-57846003466579.jpg?v=1763895659","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/fat-freddie-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}