Born in 1950s Belfast, DENNIS McGOOKIN had always wanted to be a police officer. His first plan – to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary – was derailed after his uncle, a serving police officer, was targeted by the IRA. After some heavy wrangling with his family, the teenaged McGookin accepted a compromise to join a police force in England instead.
The Many Faces of Crime is his first book.
'I have an excellent memory for faces. I recall the face of every dead body I have ever seen. Every murder victim, every suicide, every cot death and every death reported as unexplained.'At the age of 22, Dennis McGookin was made a Detective Constable in the Criminal Investigation...
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