Hateland

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Mainstream, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages
Only a month after his arrest for planting bombs which killed three and mutilated scores, Nazi nailbomber David Copeland began a passionate correspondence with a delightful young English rose called Patsy. As he awaited trial, Copeland bombarded Patsy with letters detailing his disturbed background, crackpot beliefs, and most intimate feelings. But Copeland wasn't writing to a petite 20-year-old blonde, butin fact a burly 40-year-old nightclub bouncernamed Bernard O'Mahoney, who in the past had used the same means to coax confessions from two child-killers. O'Mahoney's earlier hoaxes helped secure life sentences, and so too did his correspondence with Copeland when the letters surfaced at the nailbomber's Old Bailey trial. But the remarkable story of how O'Mahoney snared Copeland is only a small part of "Hateland's" larger, more remarkable story. For the book is primarily the narrative of O'Mahoney's own gradual transition from Nazi thug to Nazi opponent. It marks his public renunciation of the hate-filled world he left behind."

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Contents

Getting a Grip
11
Rivers of Blood
18
Plastic Paddy on Tour
34
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Bernard O'Mahoney is the author of a number of true crime books, including the bestselling Essex Boys, The Dream Solution and Wannabe in My Gang? He also wrote of his experiences in the army and on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland in Soldier of the Queen. Mick McGovern has worked on television documentaries and written for The Observer and the New Statesman. He co-wrote Killing Rage with Eamon Collins and, with Bernard O'Mahoney, Soldier of the Queen and The Dream Solution.

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