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Fitted up and Fighting back.

Important, alarming and urgent, this powerful book raises many troubling questions not just about the conviction of Kevin Lane but about the criminal justice system. Also it exposes the use of ...

Living Amongst The Beasts. Terry Ellis

One of the criminal underworld's most notorious armed robbers and mastermind behind the 2007 £4 million heist at the Verizon business centre in King's Cross London, Terry Ellis speaks.....

My Dad, The Guv'nor

I am the Guv'nor's daughter - but what does that mean? In this incredibly frank and poignant memoir, Kelly McLean provides a unique insight into life growing up as...

Verizon

From humble beginnings in Camden Town to the most wanted man in Britain, follow Terry Ellis on his journey to leading one of the UK's most brazen and audacious heists...

Loyalist Paramilitary Gunrunner

A Londoner enters a world of guns, bombs and assassinations until the Special Branch of the police and military intelligence step in. Frank’s years as...

Dave Courtney's Little Black Book

Dave Courtney's Little Black Book is back, and will tell you all you ever needed to know about gangsters and London's criminal under-world......

The Guv'nor Paperback

A bare-knuckle fighter turned moviestar, Lenny Mclean had powerful friends and terrible enemies. In this biography, he tells stories about his life, including how he knocked the......

How to Rob Banks and Influence People

Vic Dark is one of the biggest names in criminal history--there are few in the country that can match his criminal record. During an adrenaline-fueled career as an armed robber.....

Cass

The life story of Cass Pennant is packed with amazing stories of a life lived on the edge of the law. In this amazing book, he tells of how he saved World Boxing....

The Krays: The Prison Years Hardcover

In the 60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were Britain’s most notorious gangsters. With violence and intimidation they were the kings of London. They sipped champagne with celebrities and rubbed shoulders with ......

The Godfather Of British Crime Paperback

To Britain's criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather. Held responsible for the gangland killings of Ginger Marks and Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell, he was the punisher to those who broke.....

The Last Gangster: My Final Confession Paperback

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012......

Like Father, Like Son. A Journey of Minds

Like father Like Son – A Journey of minds is the joint work of Joe Pyle snr and jnr. Both keen lovers of poetry, this book is a compilation of.....

Mean Machine:Roy Shaw

The definitive story of East End Hard Man Roy Shaw, as told by the Shaw family. Mean Machine includes many, previously untold, tales from Roy's colourful life.

Inside Broadmoor: Up close and personal with Britain's most dangerous criminals

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic....

Joey Pyle: Notorious - The Changing Face of Organised Crime Paperback

The Krays, the Richardsons and men like Buster Edwards or Freddie Foreman may be better known, but by the end of the sixties they were either in prison or living in enforced.....

Rise of the Footsoldier

'The first thing that caught my eye was the geezer with the gold tooth - the second was that he was holding a shooter - and the third that he was pointing it at.....

Muscle Paperback

This is the autobiography of Carlton Leach, a man to be reckoned with. He has earned himself respect throughout the deadly underworld he occupies. Make a.....

Born Gangster

Jimmy Tippett Jnr was born into gangster aristocracy. Son of legendary boxer and South London heavy, Jimmy Tippett, he grew up rubbing shoulders with the most notorious faces in London.....

The Dirty Dozen:

The average bank robbery takes around four minutes. The essential ingredients are ruthlessness, cunning and plenty of bottle. You'll also need a weapon, a disguise and a getaway car. If you have all those things, then you could...

The Monkey Puzzle Tree

The headline "Armed police throw ring of steel around court" says it all. Stephen Gillen was the most wanted and most ...

Lost Soul, Poetry From A Broken Mind and My Journey Of Recovery

Biographical and packed full of raw emotion this short read offers insight into Donna Siggers's recovery...

Blue: A Memoir – Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair Stewart......

Unnatural Causes

The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ...Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may.....

The Black Widow (Linda Calvey)

If you think you know everything about the East End's toughest gangsters, think again. Meet Linda Calvey, aka the Black Widow.Growing up after the war in the East End....

Stop The Ride, I Want To Get Off:

The Autobiography of Dave Courtney Paperback
Dave Courtney - the original behind Vinnie Jones's character in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - tells all in his no-holds-barred bestselling autobiography.....

Raving Lunacy

Dave Courtney, whose autobiography, Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off, was a huge bestseller, reveals all from another hidden aspect of London's underworld.....

Let's Skip To The Good Bits

Happily married, with a great job and a newborn son, Darren Barden was on top of the world. Little did he know that a knock on the door would change everything…

The Big Con.

Fraudster, swindler, conman, chancer, trickster, loveable rogue, the Southerner with more front than Southend - call him what you will...Tony Sales knew how to make money.

London's Lovable Villain

London’s Loveable Villain is about the Wrestler and Triple Lifesaver, Chick ‘Cocky’ Knight, and his colourful life and exploits. The title comes from one of his many...
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Fight Fire With Fire, Rene Costa

Fleeing Cypriot civil aged 4 years old, Rene Costa has already witnessed horrific death scenes. Neighbours pinned to walls and shot down in cold blood still embeds in his...

Lessons Volume 1. Jason Allday

Life lessons are defined by experience and the willingness to accept that you can't change your past. Some of the most impressionable experiences are lessons in disguise...

The Profession of Violence

Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since.

London Crime

An in-depth look at the major London crimes and robberies of the 1930s - 2020. The heists, the rackets and the empires of the gangsters who ruled the city and where their money came from.

A Way Of Life. Reg Kray

Reg Kray was the torchbearer of the 60's era in British history. But despite ongoing press interest in the world of the Krays, few...

My Story. Ron Kray

My Story. A look at life in Prison, Broadmoor and gangland London and events from Ron Kray's perspective

Unlicensed

True and astonishing accounts of how London’s gangsters took control of the UK boxing scene and created a billion-dollar worldwide industry.