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Review: Putin’s People – How the KGB took back Russia and then took on The West – by Catherine Belton
The author of this, the best study of Vladimir Putin that I have read to date, is Catherine Belton, a Financial Times journalist that was based in Moscow. It is a comprehensive study of the rise of Putin and how he has cemented a Tsar-like power as head of the New Russia. We go from… Continue reading
Belton, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Yeltsin, Brexit, Capitalism, Catherine Belton, cold war, Communism, Conservative, Conservative Party, Conservatives, corruption, crime, DOnald Trump, Dostoyevsky, espionage, Financial Times, FSB, Gangster, KGB, Kremlin, London, Londongrad, mafia, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky, Moscoow, Moscow, oligarch, Organised Crime, organized crime, Panama Papers, Putin, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Russian Mafia, siloviki, Soviet Union, spy, St Petersburg, Tambov, Tambov Group, Trump, Trump Towers, Tsar, U.K., Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin -
Review: Gommorah – Italy’s Other Mafia – by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is the Italian Salman Rushdie. After writing his exposé on the Neapolitan mafia that is the subject of this book, Gomorrah, Saviano had serious death threats from organised crime and had to go into hiding and lives under security protection to this day. He is only a young man and is a patriotic… Continue reading
agriculture, Camorra, Cartel, cartels, China, COcaine, Colombia, Cosa Nostra, crime, environment, Europe, fake, Fashion, Gommorah, heroin, Italian Mafia, Italy, junkie, landfill, Made in Italy, mafia, Mexico, murder, Naples, Napoli, narcotics, Ndragheta, Neapolitan, omerta, Organised Crime, Roberto Saviano, Salmon Rushdie, textiles, toxic, waste disposal -
Review: Track Record by Darren Campbell with Trystan Bevan
Darren Campbell is one of the fastest men in the world and has won Olympic Gold. I’m probably one of the slowest men in the world and know next to nothing about athletics. The Olympics though are unmissable, especially the mens’ sprints. Campbell achieved the zenith of his success in Athens 2004 leading the British… Continue reading
100 metres, Andrey Shevshenko, Athens, athlete, athletics, Atlanta, black, bosnia, Budapest, Cardiff, Cardiff Blues, caribbean, Chelsea, CHristian Malcolm, Commonwealth, Commonwealth Games, crime, Croatia, Darren Campbell, drugs, Gangster, gold medal, Gunchester, Jamaica, Jonah Lomu, Linford Christie, Manchester, Moss Side, Newport, Olympics, PAS, professional athlete, professional sport, race, racism, serbia, silver medal, Sport, sportsnutrition, sprinting, sydney, Trystan Bevan, USA, Wales, Windrush, Windrush Generation, Yugoslavia -
Review: The Life and Lines of Brandon Block by Matt Trollope
I was a DJ myself back in the 1990s and although I never played alongside Brandon Block, I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times. Once, on his father’s birthday in a London bar/club, I had just got out of one of my early mental health hospital stints and I think Brandon… Continue reading
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Review: Doing The Business – The Final Confession of the Senior Kray brother by Colin Fry and Charlie Kray
The notoriety of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, is present in their legacy. These were the most infamous London gangsters to emerge during the 1960s. Their older brother, Charlie, used to try and keep his distance from Firm activities, yet he had a lot of insider knowledge of operations. In this confession, he reveals… Continue reading
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Review: Dangerous People, Dangerous Places – by Norman Parker
Author, Norman Parker served a 24 year jail sentence for murder. On his release, wanting to experience life to the fullest, he took advantage of his writing skills to become a journalist for lads mags and the Daily Express and set about tackling the niche market of visiting dangerous places in the world and through… Continue reading
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Review: Gypsy Jane – by Jane Lee with David Jarvis
I read this book really quickly- it was enticing and a good tale. Gypsy Jane is something of a crazy phenomenon who rocked the London underworld with some pretty brutal firsthand tales. It didn’t take much for the Gran to pay a visit to any dissidents and she’d be brandishing a samurai sword or her… Continue reading
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Review: The Big Breach – From Top Secret To Maximum Security – by Richard Tomlinson
Richard Tomlinson was a controversial MI6 whistleblower that made international headlines during his messy fallout with Britain’s foreign intelligence service. Initially after a first class degree from Cambridge he was approached for recruitment by SIS but he postponed this work, beginning a career in the city and in his spare time qualifying for the SAS… Continue reading
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Review: Silver Bullets – by Élmer Mendoza
This Mexican author, Elmer Mendoza, is about as vibrant a writer of fiction that I have encountered since Hemingway. A truly unique flowing style that is amazing to digest. The hero of the book is policeman Edgar ‘Lefty’ Mendieta. He is a drunken womaniser and the tale weaves in his affairs with the grisly murder-suicide… Continue reading
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Review: Cosa Nostra – A History Of The Sicilian Mafia – by John Dickie
This is a study on the notorious criminal organisation the Sicilian Mafia – Cosa Nostra – Over the years, Cosa Nostra has become an alternative source of political power in Southern Italian island. The reach of this criminal organisation has spread its tentacles across the globe, becoming a feared and respected multinational criminal organisation.… Continue reading
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