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A Thread of Violence and the origins of GUBU : Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented. What could drive a young, handsome, wealthy, and well-connected aristocrat to commit a double murder? The maintenance of all of the above, apparently. In 1982, Dublin socialite Malcolm Macarthur’s fortune was quickly plummeting. Desperate for a solution, the 37-year-old heir killed two people while attempting to procure a weapon and vehicle to rob a bank. His atrocious crime sent shock waves through the country and ripped open a Pandora’s box filled to the brim with conspiracy theories and political scandals — dubbed GUBU — as the perpetrator was arrested from none other than the attorney general’s home where he was hiding. Through a series of independent investigations and direct conversations with Macarthur himself, awardwinning author and journalist Mark O'Connell delivers a captivating tale where, according to a Guardian review, he “has gone and written a masterpiece.”

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