Zef Nano

What an interesting and ever more awful experience writing this book is turning out to be. Today saw more calls from Interpol, another email from a convicted murderer and an interview with an Albanian mobster.

It is a sorry state of affairs when an Albanian mobster comments: “You have the face of misery. You look like a sack of sad shit.” He wanted to murder AM’s public schoolboy boyfriend for free just to show me he could kill anyone and because he bizarrely thought it might put a smile on my face. It took a lot convincing for him to actually believe that I didn’t want anyone shot, beaten up or even scared a little bit. His final comment on the matter was: “You are either mad or not a real man if you not even have him done with a knife.”

However, Zef Nano, despite being pure scum, did give a good interview and produced a fantastic quote I hope to be able to open the European Gangland chapter with. It was: “I used to run the crime in only one village. Now Europe is my playground.” I did try to explain to him who Suede were and why that line was so funny, but I suspect he thought Brett Anderson wasn’t a real man either.