The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays
Pearson, John
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Fine condition.Orion,2001.First UK edition-first impression. Black hardback (red lettering to the spine) with Dj (two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition. Illustrated with b/w photos. Nice and clean pages as new but with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages. 241pp including index. Price clipped. First edition. This is another paragraph Book Description: John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. His book The Profession of Violence was published 28 years ago (by W&N) to huge acclaim and is still in print today in paperback. The Krays film was based on the book and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967, the year before they were arrested, the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years. Reg was in prison for 33 years although the judge recommended 30 years and was only released when he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given weeks to live. Using the trail as the fulcrum for the narrative, Pearson, in this completely new book, will revisit the twins criminal past, including a raft of new material hitherto unpublished. The trial will be re-examined (he still has contact with the living trial lawyers) and he will look at their time in gaol (including Ronnie's bizarre life in Broadmore) and examine what it is about the Krays which, at the time and over the next thirty years, made them 'criminal celebrities'. On the one hand they were pursued by a fascinated media who wanted to re-create these two brutal murderers as folk heroes, and on the other they were demonised by an establishment ashamed of the way it had embraced them. Pearson will examine just why successive Home Secretaries found it too unpalatable to release the twins when so many other less well-known, but possibly more unsavoury murderers and criminals, were released after serving a fraction of their time. This is a timely book and, with Reg's death, Pearson is now at liberty to tell the whole amazing, fascinating story. N° de ref. del artículo 2423
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Título: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of ...
Editorial: Orion
Año de publicación: 2001
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Fine
Condición de la sobrecubierta: Fine
Edición: First UK edition-first printing.
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