The Gangster's Wife
An Empire Built on Cards
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2.9 • 11 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
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 Tam and his associates wondered whether luck would be with them, it was to her that they turned. But Mags discovered that the cards warned of much more than years in prison cells: they predicted death. She learned that her own husband was also doomed to a fate that was unexpected by everyone but her: Tam died in the arms of the wife he called his 'rock' while her secret lover frantically tried to save him.
In The Gangster's Wife, Mags reveals her gripping life story, from being a London clippie through often hilarious days running an ice-cream van during the infamous Glasgow Ice Cream Wars to managing a notorious bar, being agony aunt to the toughest criminals around, hiding a secret love and sharing a life with The Licensee.
Customer Reviews
Absolute rubbish
Fairytales are as frequent as the spelling mistakes.
Don't buy!!
This book had a lot of potential to provide an insight into what I've no doubt was an exciting and interesting life. Unfortunately it is ruined by fortune telling nonsense, a desperate attempt at oneupmanship and a bizarre bravado. SPOILERS: it's the same stories you already know, rewritten in an 'I told you so' style. Disappointed as have read better works from this author. Left with the assumption that there was so little real (true?!) content that the book needed bulked up - surprised the author chose to do that with supernatural tarot fantasies.