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Previously on Hot Money.

I started looking into a murder in a small Dutch town, the murder of a man who was living secret life on the run from the Iranian regime.

And it's taken me to Ireland, to a safe house owned by the Kinahans,

the family at the heart of Europe's most powerful cocaine cartel.

But who are the Kinnahans?

And why would drug traffickers be connected to what looks like a political assassination?

This isn't an easy story to report,

because for obvious reasons, I can't just call up the main characters. Crime bosses,

they don't usually take calls from journalists. So instead, I need to find the people who are trying

to bring them down. Heroin took everyone by surprise. It took the criminals by surprise. It took the Angharas Sheikana, the Irish Police Force, took them by complete surprise.

In 1977, Michael O'Sullivan had just joined the Irish Police Force.

He's in his early 20s, and he's grown a handlebar mustache and got himself a leather jacket.

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