The General: Godfather of Crime [Import] [Paperback]

Paul Williams (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Irish American Book Company (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0862784336
• ISBN-13: 978-0862784331
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,193,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nonfiction at its best, September 25, 2000

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This review is from: The General: Godfather of Crime (Paperback)

I purchased this book on my trip to ireland this summer, it was in a small dublin bookstore. I read it once, while in dublin, going to see all of the places mentioned in it, and once again back here in DC. It was a facinating in depth look at the "life and crimes" of Martin Cahill. As a former FBI agent and NYPD officer i remembered reading Garda and Interpol reports on Cahill, at the time I knew things that the public did not. Those things are now in Williams amazing biography of one of the first modern irish crimnals. It is well worth the $12.00 price or as i paid 6.99 punts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read of a truly wicked man, October 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The General: Godfather of Crime (Paperback)

This book details the life and time of one of Dublins most feared gansters - from his early beginings as a house burgular, thru' to the Beit Paintings theft and his ultimate murder by the IRA, Paul Williams gives a detailed account of this mans life.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating study of a modern Irish criminal., February 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The General: Godfather of Crime (Paperback)

This book not only told the incredible story of the most unlikely master criminal, Martin Cahill, it also depicted the underbelly of Dublin as I had never seen represented before.

Not for Maeve Binchey readers, this shows a side of Ireland not usually represented in popular Irish fiction.