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“jimmy boyle”

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  • A Sense of Freedom

    by Jimmy Boyle ...
    Foreword by Irvine Welsh'My life sentence had actually started the day I left my mother's womb...'Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow’s Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal… Kids’ gangs led to trouble with the police. Approved schools led to Borstal, and Jimmy was on his way to a career in crime.By his twenties he was a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Ferris Conspiracy

    by Reg McKay, Paul Ferris ...
    On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godfather of the crime world and senior partner of the Krays, recruited young Ferris as a bagman, debt collector and equaliser. Feared for his capacity for extreme violence, respected for his intelligence, Ferris was the ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Top Dog: Sometimes its not the law you have to worry about

    by Dougie Brimson ...
    Hooligan gang leader Billy Evans is above the law. He knows it, and they know it. And when you regard the law as an irrelevance, all kinds of opportunities can open up for you. Especially when you begin to exert your increasingly powerful influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London.So when Billy gets the chance to make some serious money very quickly by helping a football club ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gentle Johnny Ramensky

    The Extraordinary True Story of the Safe Blower Who Became a War Hero

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Throughout an astonishing criminal career, Johnny Ramensky was the foremost safe-blower of his era. His exploits and audacious escapes from maximum security prisons also helped make him a household name - admired by some, notorious to others. But when the Second World War broke out, Ramensky joined the elite Commandos and his story became legend. Peacetime had brought Johnny Ramensky a hard ... Read more

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  • The Last Gangster

    My Final Confession

    by Charlie Richardson ...
    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.Notorious Charlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of the Richardson Gang and rival of the Krays, to cross him would result in brutal repercussions. Famously arrested on the day England won the World ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Hit Man

    The Thomas Hearns Story

    by Brian Hughes, Damian Hughes ...
    Thomas Hearns ranks as one of the greatest and most exciting fighters of all-time. From his explosion onto the pro boxing scene with seventeen straight knockouts, he struck fear into opponents and awe into spectators. He went on to feature in some of the most thrilling bouts ever and became the first champion to win six titles at different weights. He will forever be known by his chilling nickname ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Real Gorbals Story

    True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • No Mean Glasgow

    Revelations of a Gorbals Guy

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow

    by Paul Harrison ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crew

    by Dougie Brimson ...
    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE - as Paul Jarvis of the National Football Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that Billy Evans is no ordinary East End lad made good. He's also a thug, a villain and a cop killer. Jarvis just hasn't been able to prove it- Yet.So when Jarvis discovers that Evans is putting together a hooligan 'Super Crew' to follow England to Italy, he feels sure he can ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Curse of Brink's-Mat

    The story of the real-life robbery that inspired BBC drama ‘The Gold'

    by Wensley Clarkson ...
    'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on SundayThe inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery.On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink's-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Running with the Firm

    by James Bannon ...
    'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the ‘generals’ of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side ... Read more

    $16.59 USD