ESSEX BOYS A Terrifying Expose of the British Drugs Scene

Softcover. Reprint. Some of the material in this book was originally published under the title 'So This Is Ecstasy?' The story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 1990s, whose reign of terror was finally terminated when the 3 leaders were brutally murdered in their Range Rover one winter's evening. On their way they had built the drug-dealing organisation which supplied the pill that killed Leah Betts. They were responsible for a wave of intimidation, beatings and murder. Until, it seems, they took one step too far. Now there is compelling evidence that the men convicted of the killings are innocent - which means the real murderers are still at large. The author was a key member of what was one of the most feared gangs of the decade, and his inside account of their cold-blooded violence reveals that facts can be more terrifying than fiction. Illus. 224pp. trade size softcover. F.