liverpool has a dirty secret. The 2008 European Capital of Culture is also the drug traficking capital of the UK. Mersey Mafia reveals how a new generation of Liverpool merchant princes achieved sudden riches on a scale unknown since the great shipping dynasties. The illegal economy they have created is huge; one mob earned enough from one cargo to pay them nearly [5,000 a day for 50 years. Here are the stories of gang feuds and rip-offs, of the Banana Bunch, the Kinder Egg Kid, the Venezuela coke run, the ruthless killer Andrew Shackleton and the curious case of the Silver Fox.
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liverpool has a dirty secret. The 2008 European Capital of Culture is also the drug traficking capital of the UK. Mersey Mafia reveals how a new generation of Liverpool merchant princes achieved sudden riches on a scale unknown since the great shipping dynasties. The illegal economy they have created is huge; one mob earned enough from one cargo to pay them nearly [5,000 a day for 50 years. Here are the stories of gang feuds and rip-offs, of the Banana Bunch, the Kinder Egg Kid, the Venezuela coke run, the ruthless killer Andrew Shackleton and the curious case of the Silver Fox.