Queen Of Green - V E Rooney

"This isn't sneaking a few kilos in the back of a Transit van, girl. This is smuggling hundreds of kilos across international borders. And if you get caught? You won't get a slap on the wrist. You'll be getting fingered by some Hairy Mary in Holloway."

My name's Alison Reynolds. You might know me as the "Cocaine Queen" of the UK's drugs trade. If you've ever snorted a line, taken a toot off the wrist or been chummy with Charlie, chances are I'm the person who sourced it and smuggled it into the country. You're welcome.

I never planned on becoming the UK's biggest drug dealer. Somehow I went from a scrappy young girl growing weed in my spare room to shipping tonnes of coke into the UK, with the help of Liverpool's most notorious gangsters and drug lords along the way.

I'm good at keeping secrets. And those secrets made me a prized target for lots of people, which is why I'm now looking at a 25-year stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure. But imprisonment is just the beginning of my story.

After a lifetime of keeping silent, I'm giving up my secrets, and those secrets have the potential to rock the British establishment to its very core. But at what cost to myself? I have no reason to lie and nothing to lose. Not any more.

It's time to tell my story.

WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE THAT WOULD MAKE A DOCKER BLUSH.