Abo - a Wee Boy's Progress

by Allan Neil, Fred McAllen

This is the story of the passage through life of a boy, born into a pre-WW2 Scottish mining and mill background, his wartime and immediate post-war childhood and education. The book charts his early working life and short period of military service, followed by some tough times in London; how he went on to work for the Railway before joining the Police in the mid-1960s. Glad times, sad times, happiness and personal tragedy are all woven into his story, including his involvement in one of the most notorious terrorist attacks on the British mainland and his participation in the early days of helicopter policing.

384 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2012