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Quality/Calidad: 1963: Once Upon a Time in Manchester and Sinaloa Together
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Series: The Quality Gangster, Book 2
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ISBN13: 9798333216397
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2024
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2024
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
1963.
A novel based on the supposed Kray twins visit to Manchester, in the late November of 1963. There has been a thousand tales, all the stuff of legend and myths. My book is simply a take on what is one of the most fascinating and controversial gangster fables of our time. A story filled with colourful characters lighting up what was deemed a miserable, former ''Cottonopolis'' of the north. A city still recovering from World War two, its infrastructure a landscape of debris and broken buildings flattened by the Luftwaffe, but one teeming with intrigue and gangsters looking to stake a claim. A world still reeling from the JFK assassination, strange, worrying if electrifying times. Then came the Krays north with an eye on taking over and raining blood on the rainy city. Only to find despite their reputation as legendary gangland figures, in Manchester this mattered nothing at all. So unfurls 1963.
A novel based on the supposed Kray twins visit to Manchester, in the late November of 1963. There has been a thousand tales, all the stuff of legend and myths. My book is simply a take on what is one of the most fascinating and controversial gangster fables of our time. A story filled with colourful characters lighting up what was deemed a miserable, former ''Cottonopolis'' of the north. A city still recovering from World War two, its infrastructure a landscape of debris and broken buildings flattened by the Luftwaffe, but one teeming with intrigue and gangsters looking to stake a claim. A world still reeling from the JFK assassination, strange, worrying if electrifying times. Then came the Krays north with an eye on taking over and raining blood on the rainy city. Only to find despite their reputation as legendary gangland figures, in Manchester this mattered nothing at all. So unfurls 1963.
SINALOA
2024. The infamous leaders of the Ortega drugs cartel, (the largest in the world) the twins, Miguel and Carlito travel from Mexico City to Sinaloa, intent on taking over. On arriving by train, in just two hours they are turned around and put on another train back home. Sinaloa pertains to tell this astonishing tale. How the five main Sinaloa cartels came together for just a short period burying all feuds to ensure the Ortega twins were sent packing. A story of high level corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican and United States government. Of friendship, courage and ultimately, betrayal. Where no one or nothing are what they appear to be. A Mexican modern day remake of 1963.
2024. The infamous leaders of the Ortega drugs cartel, (the largest in the world) the twins, Miguel and Carlito travel from Mexico City to Sinaloa, intent on taking over. On arriving by train, in just two hours they are turned around and put on another train back home. Sinaloa pertains to tell this astonishing tale. How the five main Sinaloa cartels came together for just a short period burying all feuds to ensure the Ortega twins were sent packing. A story of high level corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican and United States government. Of friendship, courage and ultimately, betrayal. Where no one or nothing are what they appear to be. A Mexican modern day remake of 1963.
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