- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd (26 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844542459
- ISBN-13: 978-1844542451
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 597,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Viv Graham and Lee Duffy led parallel lives as pub and club enforcers, raging their gangland turf wars with a fierce frenzy of brutality and unremitting cruelty. This frank and astonishing book by underworld authority Stephen Richards is a riveting double portrait of two of the North East's most feared men whose bloody rivalry was cut short when they each met horrifically violent ends. With a frightening capacity for extreme violence, Tyneside protection hardman Viv struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, yet his benevolence to local charities and schemes to keep kids away from drugs and crime was well known - any patch that Viv protected was guaranteed free of both. He was the ultimate maverick trouble-shooter. Teeside drugs enforcer Lee Duffy had half his foot shot off in an assassination attempt and his skull beaten with a crowbar, but his streetwise instinct was unmatched. With unprecedented access to friends, family and associates, Stephen Richards dispels many of the myths surrounding these legendary figures.
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Stephen Richards, no-holds-barred investigative journalist and spokesman for the underworld, is a regular contributor of gangland news to numerous websites. He is the author of several successful true crime books, many of which have been serialised in the national press. Richards has his own management company, Crimebiz, representing infamous and notorious underworld figures. He is often sought out by production and film companies and has advised on Panorama and Trevor McDonald's Tonight to name a few. He is also involved in producing and directing crime documentaries and big-screen gangster movie scripts.
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Lawrie and Brenda Duffy welcomed their newborn son, Lee Paul, later to be known as 'the Duffer', into the world on 11 June 1965. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Lawrie and Brenda Duffy welcomed their newborn son, Lee Paul, later to be known as 'the Duffer', into the world on 11 June 1965. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
real hardcore - spot on,
By pigeon man "Middlesbrough through and through" (Middlesbrough, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die (Paperback)
This is the real 'I am', a crazy true life story of two gangsters that died terrible deaths!! The crazy thing is I knew them both!!! Everything in the book is true to form and tha author is to be congratulated for going as far as he did to find out everything there was to find out about these two giant-sized men. Everything was spot on. I would have recommended you read 'Viv Graham and Lee Duffy's Parallel Lives', as that book was real heavyweight in what it had in it, I think it was a limited edition and can no longer be bought. That book sent shockwaves around the North East's underworld when it came out, it never held back any punches.
This book is by a different publisher and has a different way of covering the story, maybe less powerful in putting real names in and naming people for having carried out crimes they were never charged with, so you can imagine the power of the other book I mention. This book does a great job in putting it all across, very readable and worthy of a top rating.
39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A ROCK SOLID STORY,
By da man "cool dude" (Preston, Lancs, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die (Paperback)
The story consists of everything you would expect of a gangster book. Plenty of women, violence of a gratuitous nature, hard men, the drug scene, double-crossing and more. I defy anyone who enjoys gangster books to come away without having experienced the highs that you would never have known about unless you read this book. This is gangsta violence at its best.
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Top story by a top writer,
By in the know "jenny from the block" (Wingate, County Durham, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die (Paperback)
What you get here is a book written by a top flight crime writer, I have read other books in the same genre by different authors, and the are poorly put together. Don't get me wrong, they are well written but just not equal to this sort of book and how the story comes across. I really fancy seeing this as a film, in fact I think the author was going to make it into a film but I never heard any more?
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