The Viper: The Life and Crimes of Martin Foley tells the extraordinary story of Ireland's most recognisable and notorious criminal. From his early days, learning his trade on daring jewellery heists with The General, to his time as a major drugs importer, operating with the blessing of John Gilligan, The Viper has seen and done it all...and he has eighteen bullet wounds to prove it.

In a career spanning over four decades Foley has had countless fallings out with gangland bosses and frequent clashes with the Provos, but The Viper is the Rasputin of organised crime—he's the criminal who refuses to die.

Mick McCaffrey exposes Foley's cowardly assault on a brave garda detective, who was left with injuries from which he would never recover. And he reveals how the young criminals who Foley mentored ultimately conspired to have him murdered, leaving him with little choice but to go straight, or at least as straight as he knew how. There has never been a crime figure more controversial than Martin Foley, and this is the book he doesn't want you to read.