WANTED: Secrets of a Mafia Whistle-blower is the sensational true story of the high-living British businessman who established the corporate empire behind a brutal ‘McMafia’.
Tenerife, 1997. A hedonistic world of sun, sea and excess. Paul Blanchard quits post-prison life in Britain for a fresh start in the Canary Islands, incorporating offshore companies for a new generation of globe-trotting business elites.
But as the millions roll-in, Blanchard’s sun-drenched dream turns into a blood-soaked nightmare. Friends are exposed as gangsters, clients as oligarchs and terror financiers. Nothing is what it seems – and the security services are watching.
As the net closes around Europe’s crime lords, Blanchard is recruited to spy on clients with suspected links to money laundering, Africa’s ‘blood diamond’ trade, arms dealers and terror networks. What he exposes sends shockwaves through the world’s intelligence community, makes Blanchard a marked man and ends in a betrayal which leaves him fighting for his freedom.
Blanchard’s gripping memoir provides a unique insight into how legitimate offshore business is hijacked by brutal gangs of organised criminals – including the murderous Al-Qaeda cells behind the Madrid and London bombings – and how, in its pursuit of underworld bosses, senior Spanish crime-fighters betrayed a man who exposed some of the world’s darkest secrets.