In an exclusive extract from his new crime novel, security correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe goes behind the headlines with a gritty tale of gangland and the drugs racket

THE ongoing fascination with lethal girls continues apace in Hanna (15A) in which Saoirse Ronan plays the eponymous heroine, a teenager raised in the wilds of Finland to become a ruthless assassin by her father, ex-black ops veteran Erik (Eric Bana).