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This is a study of Britain's gangsters - mad, bad and dangerous to know, but a fascinating bunch. Clarkson finds them charismatic, each a god in his own universe, and laps up the violent and gruesome details as if he feels privileged to write about such people. He writes about thugs like Cocky Warren with an awe-filled reverence as if the mobster himself was looking over the authors shoulder demanding he do him proud. Clarkson devotes a chapter each to the family businesses and to smooth-faced killers like the Adams family, Jimmy Moody and Kenneth Noye, whom the author calls Kenny, and describes as a genius of the underworld. The A-class thugs are gentleman gangsters, not murderers and con-men. The women particularly fascinate. One is Josie Daly, the Millionaire Madam of London whose apple-faced Granny-next-door picture belies her cunning managerial skills in the prostitution business - she ran a massage training business which gave the girls NVQ qualifications. The style is tabloid-ese - people are rubbed out, they deal in puff, the police are always the cops or cozzers, they all play the game, they look after their own. Clarkson (whose own moody picture looks like a gangster manqu?) goes for his subjects with considerable relish, hooked on the glamour of those who laugh at the law. There is a gram of the salacious in us all and the book will appeal not only to wannabe gangsters of all ages but to the rest of us who peek inside its red cover. (Kirkus UK)
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This is the inside story of the wealthiest, most powerful, most cold-blooded gangsters living openly in the UK. Included are such underworld legends as: the Adams Family; Kenneth Noye; and John "Little Legs" Lloyd.
This is a study of Britain's gangsters - mad, bad and dangerous to know, but a fascinating bunch. Clarkson finds them charismatic, each a god in his own universe, and laps up the violent and gruesome details as if he feels privileged to write about such people. He writes about thugs like Cocky Warren with an awe-filled reverence as if the mobster himself was looking over the authors shoulder demanding he do him proud. Clarkson devotes a chapter each to the family businesses and to smooth-faced killers like the Adams family, Jimmy Moody and Kenneth Noye, whom the author calls Kenny, and describes as a genius of the underworld. The A-class thugs are gentleman gangsters, not murderers and con-men. The women particularly fascinate. One is Josie Daly, the Millionaire Madam of London whose apple-faced Granny-next-door picture belies her cunning managerial skills in the prostitution business - she ran a massage training business which gave the girls NVQ qualifications. The style is tabloid-ese - people are rubbed out, they deal in puff, the police are always the cops or cozzers, they all play the game, they look after their own. Clarkson (whose own moody picture looks like a gangster manqu?) goes for his subjects with considerable relish, hooked on the glamour of those who laugh at the law. There is a gram of the salacious in us all and the book will appeal not only to wannabe gangsters of all ages but to the rest of us who peek inside its red cover. (Kirkus UK)
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This is the inside story of the wealthiest, most powerful, most cold-blooded gangsters living openly in the UK. Included are such underworld legends as: the Adams Family; Kenneth Noye; and John "Little Legs" Lloyd.
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