Books: Cops and robbers in the Big Apple...
Irish emigrant's tale of life in the NYPD has it all
NYPD Green opens with an explosive prologue. Luke Waters is nine years old, growing up in Finglas and at the moment heading to the Johnston, Mooney & O'Brien bakery to meet his father. When he arrives, a gang of masked criminals are in the middle of a hold-up.
One shoves a gun in his face. Their leader smiles at the boy from beneath his mask and ruefully declares the heist to be a bust. They leave. Luke later discovers that that leader was none other than Martin Cahill, AKA The General: Ireland's first crime "superstar".
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