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Blink: A Journey Through Gangland Mayhem
As a young man in Glasgow’s underworld, Ian ‘Blink’ MacDonald fought, robbed and slashed his way to the top, developing a taste for the high life along the way. His notoriety earned him an offer of work from Scotland’s most feared gangster, Arthur Thompson, but MacDonald had other to finance a new life in Spain with the multimillion-pound proceeds of a high-risk armed bank robbery. But the job went badly wrong, and MacDonald was jailed for 16 years.
In prison, he met scores of high-profile inmates, including torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, high-society serial killer Archie Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and Ronnie O’Sullivan senior, father of the snooker star.
On his release, MacDonald became a magnet for trouble, enjoying a hedonistic, drug-fuelled lifestyle and finding himself drawn into conflict with police, gangsters and businessmen. Rearrested several times, he was the target of more than one terrifying murder attempt.
In Blink , MacDonald provides an eye-opening account of his highly eventful journey through life in Glasgow’s brutal gangland.
In prison, he met scores of high-profile inmates, including torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, high-society serial killer Archie Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and Ronnie O’Sullivan senior, father of the snooker star.
On his release, MacDonald became a magnet for trouble, enjoying a hedonistic, drug-fuelled lifestyle and finding himself drawn into conflict with police, gangsters and businessmen. Rearrested several times, he was the target of more than one terrifying murder attempt.
In Blink , MacDonald provides an eye-opening account of his highly eventful journey through life in Glasgow’s brutal gangland.
- GenresTrue Crime
270 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 7, 2012
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February 2, 2019
Jeezo
Very honest at times funny as well .Wonder if there will be a follow up as would love to know how his life pans out .
Very honest at times funny as well .Wonder if there will be a follow up as would love to know how his life pans out .
June 6, 2019
an action-packed gripping read, if you watched Blink's true crime podcasts on youtube, you will love this book, as it expands in great detail, Ian's life should be made into a movie
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