crime king Arthur Thompson.Thompson wanted The Caravel and McGraw wasn’t giving it up so easily. He was making plenty of money from late licensing – with the Caravel open until 3am – and Thompson wanted in.Pubs were where the money was.
Drugs had become too risky. His young daughter had died and his son had gone down for dealing.When McGraw refused to hand over his pub, Thompson had one of his hoods throw a grenade into it but it didn’t detonate.
McGraw was livid.But more trouble was brewing and the atmosphere in the underworld was tense. Thompson’s son, Arthur “Fat Boy” Junior, had just been murdered weeks before.He’d been executed right outside his father’s notorious “Ponderosa” home in Provanmill.
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