The two men sitting in the front seats of the Range Rover in an Essex country lane one icy morning last December had no faces. They had been blown away by a hitman. They and their companion, who was lying in the back seat, had all been shot dead before they could even reach the car door handles. We got their names soon enough - Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe - but who were they?

LRB 20 June 1996 | PDF Download