McVicar by himself

Politics & Social Sciences

McVicar, John

Social Sciences

Hutchinson

McVicar by Himself

Rees, Goronwy

Artnik

<p>On April 26th 1999, an unknown gunman killed Jill Dando with a single bullet, fired into the back of her head. Cold, clinical and merciless, this was a hit that sent shock waves across the country. The police were baffled. Jill Dando was the archetypal girl-next-door and viewers warmed to her friendly, attractive, genuine persona - she was the least likely murder victim imaginable. Scotland Yard's response mirrored the public outrage, and a force of sixty detectives was given one of the highest budgets ever allocated to a murder enquiry. Everyone has their own theories as to what happened, but John McVicar is the only criminologist ever to have been on both sides of the fence, the one man who understands the workings of the criminal world in minute and finest detail. Now, in this extraordinary book, he takes the reader inside the murder squad and its investigation, and reveals to the public for the first time exactly what the police know.</p>

Killers

Blake Publishing, Ltd.

The cult movie "McVicar" was based on McVicar by Himself ( first published by Hutchinson in 1974 and by Arrow in 1979) the book.  Artnik Media discovered that the ex-KGB spy Goronwy Rees, who edited the book misread Mc Vicar's handwritten manuscript that was smuggled out of prison. We commissioned Mc Vicar to write the real story. A timeless tale of one man taking on the prison system in England and staging two spectacular escapes from the most secure penal institutions, it is said to have inspired the story of the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King. This is the true story of the legendary McVicar who served a partial sentence for a string of armed bank robberies in the 1960s, and emerged from prison to become one of the most distinguished writers and media pundits on the Continent. It is written with humor and self-deprecation. The author has re-written the old manuscript in order to underline the message within the story. A must read classic and one of the great real life escapes of all times. Mc Vicar by Himself is one of those books you do put down... because you want it to last. It reads like a comedic thriller that between the beats of your racing pulse makes you grin in delight. Yet it can also touch your soul.

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