Blink

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<p>As a young man in Glasgows underworld, Ian Blink MacDonald fought, robbed and slashed his way to the top, developing a taste for the high life along the way. His notoriety earned him an offer of work from Scotlands most feared gangster, Arthur Thompson, but MacDonald had other plans: to finance a new life in Spain with the multimillion-pound proceeds of a high-risk armed bank robbery. But the job went badly wrong, and MacDonald was jailed for 16 years.</p><p>In prison, he met scores of high-profile inmates, including torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, high-society serial killer Archie Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and Ronnie OSullivan senior, father of the snooker star.</p><p>On his release, MacDonald became a magnet for trouble, enjoying a hedonistic, drug-fuelled lifestyle and finding himself drawn into conflict with police, gangsters and businessmen. Rearrested several times, he was the target of more than one terrifying murder attempt.</p><p>In<i>Blink</i>, MacDonald provides an eye-opening account of his highly eventful journey through life in Glasgows brutal gangland.</p>

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<p>Ian MacDonald was born in Glasgow and spent much of his youth in approved schools and prison. He ran a successful bar before being jailed in 1993 for a failed bank robbery. He has now turned his back on crime and lives quietly in his home town.</p><p>David Leslie worked for the<i>News of the World</i>for over four decades before retiring and is now a freelance journalist and author. His other titles include the bestselling<i>Crimelord</i>,<i>The Happy Dust Gang</i>,<i>The Gangster's Wife</i>and<i>The Hate Factory</i>.</p>

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