**
'Explosive' Irish Sunday Mirror**
'A fascinating read' Seán O'Rourke, Today with Seán O'Rourke, RTÉ
'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was
seventeen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next
twenty years his criminal career would be marked by mayhem, brutality
and murder.
In 2000 a row over a failed drugs deal ignited a murderous feud in
Dublin's south inner city. The first victim of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud
was a childhood friend of Thompson's. He vowed revenge and led his
Crumlin crew in a series of tit-for-tat killings. Sixteen young men
would lose their lives over the next 12 years.
Meanwhile, another childhood friend, Daniel Kinahan, had become a senior
figure in his father Christy Kinahan's international crime cartel.
Working with the Kinahan Cartel Thompson launched himself as a drugs
dealer in Dublin.
So when an even deadlier feud broke out in 2016 - this time between the
powerful Kinahans and veteran Dublin criminal, Gerry 'The Monk ' Hutch -
Thompson was one of their staunchest allies and prepared to get his
hands dirty. But Thompson's loyalty would be his undoing. In August 2018
he was convicted of murder and jailed.
Fat Freddie is a gripping account of the rise and fall of Freddie
Thompson. Award-winning crime journalist, Stephen Breen, co-author of
the No 1 bestselling The Cartel, has written the definitive portrait
of a notorious Dublin gangster, a shocking story of double-crossing,
vengeance and murder.
