PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Paul Williams is Ireland's leading crime writer and one of its most respected journalists. For over three decades his courageous and ground-breaking investigative work has won him multiple awards. He is the author of ten previous bestselling books and has also researched written and presented a number of major TV crime series. His first book The General was adapted for the award-winning movie of the same name by John Boorman. He is a former presenter on Newstalk Breakfast and currently writes for the Irish Independent. Williams holds an A in Criminology and is a registered member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists based in Washington DC.
If Netflix has become your principal supplier of true crime product in recent years but you find the quality of its output patchy, here's a solution. Next time you hit a lull, just check in on the current state of the Hutch-Kinahan feud in Ireland. . . . This story moves at such speed, and keeps undertakers so busy, that even just a few recent headlines will more than adequately top up your need for fresh insight into the working habits of villainy's most committed. . . . This account . . . is told with breathtakingly intimate command of who shot whom and why by journalist Paul Williams. It's almost as if he was copied in by both sides at every stage of their business activities. Among Strong Words' takeaways from this bracing session, two things: you ever retire from a life of crime, and if anywhere's the new Sicily, it's Ireland. Strong Words
