Deep Cover

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An explosive first-hand account of Level 1 undercover police work, from the cop who infiltrated and dismantled some of the UK' s toughest gangs and high-profile gangsters, including Salford' s ' Mr Big' and cop killer Dale Cregan. For fans of Running with the Firm, Good Cop Bad War and Soldier SpyStreet kid turned undercover cop. ' This time he wasn' t getting up. Neither were the two young women he' d just murdered. The two unarmed young police officers he cut down in a hail of 32 bullets and the fragments of a grenade, ending their promising lives so savagely, so senselessly. I felt empty. Cold. How had it come to this? ' Shay grew up on a tough Manchester council estate where drugs and gangs were rife. A life of crime would have been an easy path to take. So it went against everything that was expected of him when he joined the police. It wouldn' t be long before Shay' s prodigious talent caught the attention of the top. Then came the call that changed his life- an offer to join the secret Level 1 undercover unit known as Omega. And it was easy to see why they wanted him- he wouldn' t have to stray too far from what he already knew. He had all the attributes of a professional criminal- the athletic physique of a cage fighter, the talk, the walk. Streetwise and fearless, he' d be a match for the most hardened villain. He was given a new identity, his DNA and fingerprints were removed from the national database, and so began the life of Michael Lydiate. In a distinguished covert career spanning 17 years, former solider Shay infiltrated Moss Side gangs, was part of a hand-picked team hunting Dale Cregan and was brought in to break up a gang war wall of silence after the murder of Salford ' Mr Big' Paul Massey. But there would be a heavy price to pay for a life in the shadows, where any mistake could have lethal consequences. . .