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MOODY is the gripping biography of a criminal whose career spanned more than four decades and included run-ins with Jack Spot, Billy Hill, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, the Krays, the Richardsons and the IRA. James Alfred Moody was number one enforcer for the Richardsons, did freelance 'work' for the Krays and became one of the most feared criminals to emerge from the London Underworld - all before he reached 30 years if age.In 1979 Moody was imprisoned for murder and armed robbery and it was in Brixton Prison that his life took its next dramatic twist. His cellmate was Provisional IRA hero Gerard Tuite and in 1980 the two men escaped and went on the run - Moody was never recaptured. While in hiding, Tuite indoctrinated Moody with stories of brutality and torture inflicted on the Irish by the British across the water and convinced him to join the IRA. Soon his murderous skills were being put to good use as he became the Provos' secret deadly assassin - a man who struck so much fear into Northern Ireland's security services that the Thatcher government put a three man SAS hit squad on his tail in the mid-80s. Moody chillingly referred to his victims as having been awarded an 'O.B.E.' (One

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Wensley Clarkson is a journalist and the author of many other books, whose collective sales number in the region of two million. These include the true crime titles PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1, WHATEVER MOTHER SAYS, HIT 'EM HARD, GANGSTERS, DOCTORS OF DEATH, crime novel THE BOSS, as well as biographies of Ronaldo, Rio Ferdinand and Mel Gibson. Clarkson currently lives in London.

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