From Mr Nice to a laser scientist and 'Cocky Curtis' - meet men who drugged Britain
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mirror.co.ukWhether it’s county lines gangs, sellers on the dark web or street-corner dealers, drugs play a sizeable part in the criminal activity in Britain today.
Estimates put their cost to society at around £19billion. Yet the tactics and markets used by them all – from petty crooks to kingpins – were established by a generation of “Mr Bigs” who got things rolling.
Now the British “narcos” are named in a book that charts, for the first time, the rise of the modern drug trade. It also details the cat-and-mouse games played between the smugglers and the Customs officials, who each found ingenious ways to outwit each other.
Drug War describes how the sale of illegal narcotics and stimulants first boomed. In 2018 there were 4,359 deaths related to
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