Hawkhurst : murder, money and smuggling in Georgian England

Dragovich, Joseph2023

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Southeast England in the 1740s was not a pleasant place. Foreign wars, rebellion and fractious politics rattled the state and made life difficult for most. In this chaos, the old practice of smuggling reached new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorised communities and confounded government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these gangs, the Hawkhurst Gang, operated like a modern-day drug cartel. They threatened witnesses and authorities, brandished their arms in public, and fought battles in the streets. It took a potent combination of new government powers and courageous citizens to finally end their reign. 'Hawkhurst' chronicles the story of the gang by taking the reader deep into the Georgian underworld.