Published: Dec. 20, 2011
Words: 56951 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Why did Vincent O’Shea become involved with a match-fixing and drug money laundering gang? Just one of the many puzzles that DCI Thompson and his constabulary have to contend with when they investigate the murder of Lloyd Macey an England international footballer in a Madrid Casino. Who broke into footbal stadiums to steal turf from the pitch? When Wembley Stadium is violated the game changes.

Extended description

TV sports presenter and national celebrity Vincent O’Shea is on the run from criminal associates. He meets disgraced England international footballer Lloyd Macey by chance in a cemetery. Macey invites O’Shea to the Man United, Real Madrid game to be played the next day in Madrid. O’Shea accepts unaware that Macey has betrayed him to the criminal syndicate they are both in fear of.
O’Shea the intended victim is instead a witness to the murder of Lloyd Macey in a Madrid casino. He flees back to London but when Macey’s sister contacts him and tells him she knows he was with her brother when he was murdered and that she intends to go to the police. He is then forced to give himself up to an old acquaintance DCI Thompson. DCI Thompson and DC Kershaw are the officers assigned to investigate Lloyd Macey’s murder he being a former resident of their Patch.
The murder is covered by all the media; football fans and the nation are outraged and demand a quick result and so do top Pol... (Read more) TV sports presenter and national celebrity Vincent O’Shea is on the run from criminal associates. He meets disgraced England international footballer Lloyd Macey by chance in a cemetery. Macey invites O’Shea to the Man United, Real Madrid game to be played the next day in Madrid. O’Shea accepts unaware that Macey has betrayed him to the criminal syndicate they are both in fear of.
O’Shea the intended victim is instead a witness to the murder of Lloyd Macey in a Madrid casino. He flees back to London but when Macey’s sister contacts him and tells him she knows he was with her brother when he was murdered and that she intends to go to the police. He is then forced to give himself up to an old acquaintance DCI Thompson. DCI Thompson and DC Kershaw are the officers assigned to investigate Lloyd Macey’s murder he being a former resident of their Patch.
The murder is covered by all the media; football fans and the nation are outraged and demand a quick result and so do top Police officials. Arriving in Madrid the two officers meet up with their Spanish colleagues at the Casino and are given full cooperation. The Spanish Police confirm that a third man was present at the murder scene which leads DCI Thompson to later to believe O’Shea’s story of innocence.
O’Shea then reveals that he’s in fear of his life and his family’s lives and it’s all because he has ripped off a match fixing and money laundering syndicate for three million pounds; a syndicate he has been involved with for several years. Joe Gillard a Turf Accountant who launders the Syndicate’s drug money tells O’shea that Macey’s murder was warning and for him to cooperate or he and his family will be next. O’Shea is so enraged he decides he wants to smash the Syndicate, even if it costs him his life. Thompson agrees to accepts his offer to help destroy the syndicate. They arrange to set up a Sting to catch the criminals who are forcing O’Shea to fix the two FA CUP semi finals by bribing the two referees. The referees reluctantly agree to cooperate and the sting is a success. During the sting it is discovered that the Syndicate, through its drug money laundering activities, has connections with an Islamic extremist group that is plotting to attack an ‘Iconic London place of worship.’
Two London premier league football clubs are broken into and the turf from the Centre Circle is uplifted. The incidents are considered pranks carried out by supporters but when Wembley Stadium is broken into and the sacred turf is desecrated the incidents are no longer considered.
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Tags

thriller, crime, murder, police, football, soccer, arsenal, west ham, wembley

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Review by: Owen Brownsey on May 27, 2012 :
Having read the authors first book 'Villians in my garden 'which once opened was impossible to put down,I felt I had to read this next one to see if the author was able to continue with the same skill and background knowledge that was shown in Villains in my garden. I was not disappointed, Roy Goode has shown us a dark secret to the game of football, which in real life from time to time has raised it's ugly head like a cancer spreading from cell to cell,corruption always seems to go hand in hand with gambling, money and the inevitable murder.'Villians and the beautiful game' is no exception to this, it is an uncanny resemblance to what may be the truth when gambling and obscene amounts of money
are involved. A must to read whether or not you follow the beautiful game of football.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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