The Profession of Violence
The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 2013
272 pages
978-1-4482-1140-1 (ISBN)
Description
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.
Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969.
Now expanded to include further extraordinary revelations, including the unusual alliance between the Kray twins and Lord Boothby - the Tory peer who won GBP40,000 in a libel settlement when he denied allegation of his association with the Krays - The Profession of Violence is a truly classic work.
John Pearson is also the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plummer (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor).
Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969.
Now expanded to include further extraordinary revelations, including the unusual alliance between the Kray twins and Lord Boothby - the Tory peer who won GBP40,000 in a libel settlement when he denied allegation of his association with the Krays - The Profession of Violence is a truly classic work.
John Pearson is also the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plummer (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor).
Reviews / Votes
This book is extremely well written and is fittingly deadpan. * New Statesman * The most famous biography of criminal life to have been published in Britain...it has become something of a cult among the young. * Time Out * All credit to Mr Pearson for a brave and disturbing book. Mr Pearson has produced a scrupulous dossier of the Kray's weird career. * Daily Telegraph * The biography is brave and useful; well-written, it's an exciting read. * The Times *More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1140-1 (9781448211401)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John Pearson is the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plummer (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). He is also the author of The Profession of Violence, on which the Tom Hardy film Legend is based, and the follow-up, The Cult of Violence.
Born in Surrey, England in 1930, Pearson worked for Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times, where he was the assistant of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. Pearson published the definitive biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming in 1966.
Pearson has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family.
Born in Surrey, England in 1930, Pearson worked for Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times, where he was the assistant of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. Pearson published the definitive biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming in 1966.
Pearson has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family.
Content
Introduction
1 Violet's Twins
2 Battle Training
3 The Billiard Hall
4 The Colonel
5 Gun Time
6 Twins Apart
7 Flight from Long Grove
8 Comeback for the Colonel
9 Barn of Gold
10 Organized Crime
11 Twins Victorious
12 A Marriage in the Family
13 Axe Man
14 The Murder Machine
15 Nipper's Secret War
16 Arrest
17 Retribution
Postscript
Index
1 Violet's Twins
2 Battle Training
3 The Billiard Hall
4 The Colonel
5 Gun Time
6 Twins Apart
7 Flight from Long Grove
8 Comeback for the Colonel
9 Barn of Gold
10 Organized Crime
11 Twins Victorious
12 A Marriage in the Family
13 Axe Man
14 The Murder Machine
15 Nipper's Secret War
16 Arrest
17 Retribution
Postscript
Index
