![]() ![]() Knowing this, you expect a fairly biased and action-packed account, but Pearson does a remarkable job of sticking to objective facts without sensationalizing them. Interestingly, author John Pearson was actually hired by the Krays to write this account, and so had unprecedented access to the Kray family to learn their story. ![]() THE PROFESSION OF VIOLENCE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KRAY TWINS is a non-fiction account of the lives and criminal activities of the Kray twins, two London gangsters who ran a fairly successful empire in the 1960s, charting both their origin and rise to power to how their personalities ultimately brought them down. 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. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London’s gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy. Quick Review: A very fact-based account of a surprisingly robust gang active in 60s London fascinating access and details. Read this book for: non-fiction, London crime, gang crime, violence ![]()
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