- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pennant Books Ltd (28 April 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906015597
- ISBN-13: 978-1906015596
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,644,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BARRINGTON ZULU PATTERSON ('ONE-EYED BAZ') is not a man to mess with. When not training in martial arts or proving himself as a cage fighter, he cuts a powerful figure in Coventry's clubland where he runs its toughest doors. Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, Baz grew up in the tough backstreets of Handsworth, Birmingham, while his father served an eight-year prison sentence. His tormentors called him 'One Eye', or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a victim mentality in him, but instead he became a fighter. One by one, those who tormented him would get their comeuppance . . . In Barrington s turbulent teenage years he adopted a criminal lifestyle. These were the tense early 1980s, when friction between police forces and ethnic communities in the inner cities often exploded. So it was in Birmingham, where the decision of Baz Patterson and other members of the black community to make a stand resulted in the Handsworth riots. A child of his time, he also became a leading figure in Birmingham City FC's Zulu Warriors - then the only football hooligan firm with a very visible black contingent. As well as fighting with hardcore rival fans, his love of a pound note led to him ambushing and robbing some of his adversaries before he became a club doorman and began to be paid legitimately for his physical fearsomeness. For all his ferocious reputation, ONE-EYED BAZ reveals a character of great warmth and loyalty, a charismatic figure strong enough to turn his back on street violence and embrace the combat sport of cage fighting. ONE-EYED BAZ will surely be lauded as a classic of the hardman genre . . .
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