David Leslie: 65 books
Carstairs
Hospital for Horrors
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
*** INTRODUCTORY OFFER PRICE ***
Carstairs, the State Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a hospital like no other. Effectively a prison for some of the most violent and insane criminals in our society, it houses men who have committed the most horrific and frightening crimes imaginable....
Crimelord: The Licensee
The True Story of Tam McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw. A notorious criminal kingpin, McGraw has risen from extreme poverty in the East End of Glasgow to become one of Scotland's wealthiest men.
When hash started to flood into Scotland from the late 1980s onwards,...
The Gangster's Wife
An Empire Built on Cards
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
For almost four decades, Margaret 'Mags' McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband, Tam, the notorious 'Licensee', amassed a fortune by leading a safe-cracking gang before masterminding a spectacular £50-million drugs racket.
Mags was a devotee of Tarot cards and fortune telling, so when...
Blink
A Journey Through Gangland Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
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 plans: to finance...
by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, David Leslie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home.
After her sister's violent death, Valerie's...
The Hate Factory
Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.
Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced...
The Happy Dust Gang
How Sex, Scandal and Deceit Founded a Drugs Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Charlie, snow, toot, white: cocaine goes by many different names. But in Glasgow in the early 1980s, they called it Happy Dust.
At no-holds-barred parties of the glamorous and wealthy, cocaine was the new aphrodisiac. A few lines of Charlie and a humdrum party could become an orgy.
Hot...
by David Leslie, Marianna Sigala
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
International Cultural Tourism: management, implications and cases provides a comprehensive exploration of the management, operations and marketing of cultural tourism attractions and resources in a global context.
Topics explored include:
* For the first time, an evaluation of the use...
Lighting Candles
A Paramilitary's War with Death, Drugs and Demons
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at...
Mummy, Take Me Home
A Mother's Tug-of-Love Torment
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
'Mummy, take me home,' sobbed little Jasmine Chapman as she was ripped from her mother's arms. But there was nothing that Morag could do . . . except continue to fight for custody of the child she loved so much.
When their relationship ended, Jasmine's parents argued bitterly about her future....
Bible John's Secret Daughter
Murder, Drugs and a Mother's Secret Heartbreak
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims. He was being hunted for three brutal unsolved sex murders, and each of his victims had been picked up after a night...
The Underworld Captain
From Gangland Goodfella To Army Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Alexander Shannon escaped a shady past to enjoy a glittering career in the army, only to end up back in the thick of criminal activity.
Shannon's time as a soldier saw him posted to the Falklands, Northern Ireland and war-torn Bosnia. The rigours of army life took their toll and he found himself...
Primeval Forces
You, Me and the Creature Within Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When one of our ancient forebears Little Lucy, died on the banks of an African river, to be preserved in its alluvial mud and discovered aeons later, did anyone mourn her passing? Did some hair-covered male hold her hand, perhaps shed a tear as she took her last breath, or did her group just wander...
Banged Up!
Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Britain's prisons have dealt with a vast range of inmates over the years - from infamous criminals to celebrities to the wrongfully convicted. Banged Up now tells the story of six of Britain's most notorious jails - Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway - and of the...