Supergrasses and Informers: AND Bent Coppers: A Survey of Police Corruption: Informal History of Undercover Police Work

Supergrasses and Informers: AND Bent Coppers: A Survey of Police Corruption: Informal History of Undercover Police Work

by JamesMorton (Author)

Synopsis

This is an omnibus edition of two books about how the police force works. In the first, Morton unravels the tangled history of key players, including Bertie Smalls, the original supergrass, and his successor, "King Squealer" Maurice O'Mahony. The second is a study of police corruption in the UK.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 752
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Published: 04 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0751532932
ISBN 13: 9780751532937

Media Reviews
For Supergrasses: 'Scholarly and lucid * Spectator *
Written by a lawyer who knows his subject at first hand, it is not only enjoyable as a read but valuable as a reference * IRISH INDEPENDENT *
For Bent Coppers: 'Nothing as comprehensive as this compendium of police wrong-doing has ever been attempted in Britain * MAIL on Sunday *
Every police officer who thinks 'it would never happen at my nick * will learn from reading it' *
Author Bio
James Morton is the author of the hugely successful Gangland series. He has long experience as a solicitor specialising in criminal work and was editor-in-chief of NEW LAW JOURNAL for many years.