Free Micky Finn: The Evildoer 1: A Sexy Times Crime Romance Thriller (The London Irish) by Adele Asher

BEING A CRIMINAL is one of the only jobs that requires no interview, references, training or education. You simply go out and steal a car, mug someone, break into a house or hold up a bank and you’ve got the job.  
    It’s the ultimate equal opportunities employer, and for this reason a popular option for many people who are blocked from more socially-acceptable vocations.
    The price of the low entry requirements into the career ladder of crime is that once you’ve taken the job you are stuck with it for life. From the minute you commit your first crime you are set apart from society and will never be able to return. There is no resignation clause or retirement option.  
    In Micky Finn’s case it was a career he was born into. For the Finn’s were London’s most notorious Irish crime family and criminality was a family business for more than three generations.
    Having left Ireland to escape the troubles, the Finn family quickly found a whole new war to fight on the streets of London. In 1917 the British regarded the Irish as little more than serfs and it was common to see signs on boarding houses that read No Blacks, No Jews, No Irish .  
    The slum housing of Camden became a ghetto for immigrant Irish families forced to live in squalid conditions by profiteering landlords.
      Despite being a time served tradesman, old Grandpa Finn couldn’t get work, and quickly found out in a society that ostracised him by virtue of his nationality it was simpler just to help himself, the Finn crime family came into existence and their bloody and brutal reign over organised crime in North London began.
    Seamus ‘Sharky’ Finn was the eldest of the latest generation of the Finn firm preceding his four brothers, Billy, Danny and finally Micky. Born in the sixties, at the height of the London gang wars, Sharky got an early apprenticeship into the family business, but London was changing. As multiculturalism took firm hold and criminals of all nationalities descended on the capital, the Finn’s power base began to wane.  
    During his father’s tenure as head of the firm, the Finn’s were one of a handful of large crime families that ruled London by postcode. From the Sullivan’s to the Kray’s, London’s map was divided by areas of influence ruling the traditional vices of gambling, drinking, protection, prostitution and the Finn family favourite - armed robbery.
    Times were quickly changing and the emergence of the drugs trade as the most profitable of criminal enterprises, the organised theft of high value cars to export markets in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, electronic fraud and the huge increase of sex-trafficked women into the brothels and strip bars favoured foreign gangs with wide ranging connections.  
    As the Metropolitan Police was cleaned up, so too were the long standing protection agreements for the biggest, most notorious, families, and entire generations found themselves serving long stretches at her Majesty’s hotel chain.  
    Sharky, having been schooled in a more old-fashioned apprenticeship of crime, was ill-equipped to deal with these new more violent gangs who didn’t rule by mutual agreement but had ambitions all over the capital.
    It was left to Micky, youngest of the Finn family, to adapt the Finn’s business model and as the youngest, most violent, and least morally-adjusted, member of the family it was something he excelled at. Under Micky’s stewardship the Finn’s quickly became a feared entity once more and without the boundary agreements of the old firms Micky committed crime across the capital with impunity.
    When he was finally charged with Murder, and faced a life sentence behind bars, Micky asked for another 2,561 offences to be taken into account. Having spent 34 years on the planet by the time he was finally killed, Micky had set a record that would remain unbeaten in the London underworld.

    This is the story of Micky Finn, and like most Irish stories it started with a