Just when you thought the annals, yes I said annals, of Kopite literature couldn't go any lower... Ladies and gentlemen
Amazon product ASIN B00AFWLPUM
A Mersey ‘Gone With the Wind’
** that races like a high speed bullet train all the way from Rome 1977 to Istanbul 2005.”
25 May 1977
On the day of Liverpool’s first European Cup final in Rome, the destinies of two families become intertwined. The Tates and the McGuires; same neighbourhood, different sides of the track. The Tates are the notorious ones and twenty-year-old Eddie Tate is on the fast track to the top of the Merseyside underworld. At thirteen his youngest sister Lucy is beginning to realise what it means to have Tate as her second name. Frank McGuire is about to leave school for the growing dole queue and sees Eddie as his way out. So when Eddie needs a small lad to go through a chemist’s window, Frank press gangs his little brother Mickey for the job. What starts off as a simple burglary sets of a chain of events that span twenty-eight years and five European Cup Finals.
25 May 2005
Eddie Tate has become the undisputed king of the Liverpool drugs trade and Frank McGuire is his feared enforcer. Lucy Tate has left her family and past far behind to become a BBC reporter. Mickey McGuire’s life has been a story of endless decline and failure. He goes from underachieving pupil, to minor rock star, to drug addict, to prisoner to a hospital porter. Like his beloved Liverpool FC, it seems like he is all washed up. Then against all odds, he is offered one last chance to turn it all around. To take his chance he needs to make it to the Champions League Final in Turkey. To raise the cash he crosses Eddie Tate and as the great red crusade heads south, death waits round every corner on Mickey’s road to Istanbul . . .
View attachment 50598
** "Frankly my dear RS, I don't give a damn"