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“You know, I’m getting too old for this kind of life: the drug dealing and the stabbings, the slashings, the blindings and the knee-cappings. And I’m sick of getting mixed up with international gangsters, and hit contracts, murders, securi-wars, guns, Yardies and Essex-boy torturers, corrupt politics, crack-head hit men, knife-fights, terrorists… And I don’t want to go back to jail.”
“Sure. I can understand that, Paul. But, I mean, what else would you do? Sell insurance, maybe?”
“No. I’ve got it all worked out. I’m going to become a writer.”
“Hmm. A writer, eh. That’s sounds pretty good. But what are you going to write about?”
“Oh, you know, the drug dealing and the stabbings, the slashings, the blindings and the knee-cappings, the international gangsters, the hit contracts and the murders, the guns, Yardies and Essex-boy torturers and…”
At 16, Paul Ferris was a runner for Glasgow’s infamous Arthur Thompson firm, building a reputation for himself as a fearless thief.
He had a penchant for violence and a talent for emerging relatively unscathed.
In the 1980s, as Glasgow’s heroin market flourished, Ferris built his own firm and used legitimate business interests as a front for his drugs operation.
He was finally convicted of gun running in 1998.
He is now, four years after his release from prison, a best selling author, with his first book, The Ferris Conspiracy about to become a major feature film starring Robert Carlisle in the title role.
Next month he will appear at a literary event to be staged in Edinburgh as part of the Unesco Edinburgh World City of Literature festival.
Just 12 months ago there were underworld whispers that he was making a move on the Scottish Capital’s taxi scene.
Tory group leader Ian Whyte said: “I would hope that the council is satisfied that he is no longer involved in any criminal activities and really has gone clean.”
Fugedaboudit!
Just ask Tam “The Licencee” McGraw, or Wullie “Stripes” Mckinnon, or…
www.news.scotsman.com
“Sure. I can understand that, Paul. But, I mean, what else would you do? Sell insurance, maybe?”
“No. I’ve got it all worked out. I’m going to become a writer.”
“Hmm. A writer, eh. That’s sounds pretty good. But what are you going to write about?”
“Oh, you know, the drug dealing and the stabbings, the slashings, the blindings and the knee-cappings, the international gangsters, the hit contracts and the murders, the guns, Yardies and Essex-boy torturers and…”
At 16, Paul Ferris was a runner for Glasgow’s infamous Arthur Thompson firm, building a reputation for himself as a fearless thief.
He had a penchant for violence and a talent for emerging relatively unscathed.
In the 1980s, as Glasgow’s heroin market flourished, Ferris built his own firm and used legitimate business interests as a front for his drugs operation.
He was finally convicted of gun running in 1998.
He is now, four years after his release from prison, a best selling author, with his first book, The Ferris Conspiracy about to become a major feature film starring Robert Carlisle in the title role.
Next month he will appear at a literary event to be staged in Edinburgh as part of the Unesco Edinburgh World City of Literature festival.
Just 12 months ago there were underworld whispers that he was making a move on the Scottish Capital’s taxi scene.
Tory group leader Ian Whyte said: “I would hope that the council is satisfied that he is no longer involved in any criminal activities and really has gone clean.”
Fugedaboudit!
Just ask Tam “The Licencee” McGraw, or Wullie “Stripes” Mckinnon, or…
www.news.scotsman.com
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