John Mooney’s controversial new book explores the horrific killing and dismemberment of Kenyan immigrant Farah Swaleh Noor by Dublin sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by the media.Noor's dismembered body was cut into pieces before being dumped in the Royal Canal in refuse sacks.
The Torso in the Canal explores the circumstances surrounding the notorious killing, and the effect it had on those involved. Based on exclusive interviews with relatives, friends and investigators, this comprehensive book reveals new information about the investigation and the backgrounds of both the killers, and their victim.

On June 26, 1996, an international outcry was heard over the assassination of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, gunned down by Ireland's most vicious gang. It was the first European case of what the police called "narco-terrorism," where drug syndicates use terror tactics against individuals and states to protect their interests. The hit would change European police tactics forever and make the law enforcement community realize that this problem was no longer confined to the third world.
Ruthless godfather John Gilligan controlled a colossal drug empire and a mob of Dublin gangland's most dangerous criminals. Violence and the threat of murder kept terrified witnesses silent and other gangsters in fear. Gilligan thought himself above the law--and never managed to figure out that there was a line between what gangsters can and cannot do.
In Evil Empire Paul Williams tells the chilling inside story of Gilligan's rise to power, his savage gang, and the truth about the terrifying murder that shocked the world. Also shown is the behind-the-scenes drama of the dedicated police squad that waged an unprecedented four-year war to smash "Factory" John's Evil Empire.

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Paul Williams is Ireland's No. 1 award-winning crime reporter, famed for exposing the ruthless gangsters behind Irish crime. In Gangland! he investigates who is pulling the strings behind the scenes - the families that form the Irish mafia - and examines the way in which their net has spread across Ireland and beyond. Compelling, chilling and unput-downable, Gangland gives the inside story on a dark and sinister world.

By the time the Kinahan cartel first shot to public attention in May 2010, Christy Kinahan and his sons Daniel and Christopher Jr were already among the richest men in Europe, with an estimated joint worth of €750m. Since then, the Kinahans have become household names. They were already familiar to European police forces for over a decade.

The Cartel is the definitive account of how a working class Dublin lad who failed his Leaving Cert rose to figure on Europol's top 10 list of criminal godfathers, employing language and networking skills to rival any CEO along the way. It outlines how Christy Kinahan crossed borders at will to send drugs and arms back to Ireland, dealing decisively and something lethally with anyone who got in his way, while remaining beyond the reach of the authorities.

The Cartel also explores the recent events that have brought the Kinahan gang centre stage. It explains how once-firm allies have now turned on each other in the most shocking criminal feud Ireland has ever seen. And it tells the behind-the-scenes story of how Spanish police tracked and listened in on the first-ever Irish-led international drugs cartel before launching an operation against them.

The authors have had exclusive access to the wiretaps that tracked the cartel for two years and analysis from key officers who investigated them. It explains the criminal clan's aims and actions in their own words and reveals the surprising truths behind how they built their empire.

Nine noted literary critics examine the spiritual and religious elements in the fiction of such diverse writers as James Baldwin, J. F. Powers, Graham Greene, Par Lagerkvist, and Flannery O’Connor.

Contributors:  Robert Boyle, S.J.; Robert McAfee Brown; A. A. Devitis; Herbert Howarth; Maralee Frampton; Nathan A. Scott, Jr.; Albert Sonnenfeld; Winston Weathers; and the editors

One of the earliest, and still one of the most perceptive analyses of Katherine Anne Porter, it gives careful interpretation of the style and intent of Porter’s work from 1935 through the publication and critical reception of Ship of Fools.

During the early 1930s, after James Gould Cozzens had published four romantic novels and then withdrawn them from circulation, he wrote the first three of what Brenden Gill called his eight “canonical works.” But it was only after the publication of By Love Possessed in 1957 that he achieved wide popularity.  Mooney closely examines each of Cozzens’ novels, isolating and defining his main themes and addressing the critical acclaim and condemnation of his works.
Among the novels Mooney analyzes are: S.S. San Pedro, Castaway, The Last Adam, Men and Brethren, Ask Me Tomorrow, The Just and the Unjust, Guard of Honor, and By Love Possessed.

 John Mooney’s controversial new book explores the horrific killing and dismemberment of Kenyan immigrant Farah Swaleh Noor by Dublin sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by the media.Noor's dismembered body was cut into pieces before being dumped in the Royal Canal in refuse sacks.
The Torso in the Canal explores the circumstances surrounding the notorious killing, and the effect it had on those involved. Based on exclusive interviews with relatives, friends and investigators, this comprehensive book reveals new information about the investigation and the backgrounds of both the killers, and their victim.