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No Handcuffs: The Final Word on My War with The Krays

By: Eddie Richardson
Narrated by: Eddie Richardson, Karl Jenkinson
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THE FINAL WORD FROM THE LAST KING OF GANGLAND WITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA COLE

Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of violent criminality grabs you by the throat.

The Richardson brothers, Eddie and Charlie, and their infamous 'Torture Gang', made money while their rivals Ronnie and Reggie Kray made fatal mischief. They fought each other, but now, in 2019, Eddie Richardson says: 'They tell me blood is thicker than water, but with Charlie it wasn't so. He was evil.'

With his brother dead, Eddie Richardson feels free to detail the story of a vicious family feud that provoked extravagant acrimony. No Handcuffs unravels the mysteries of decades of crime and political incident. The story of a turbulent era, it rivals the most imaginative fiction in its portrayal of gangland life with all its chanciness and rawness and careless disregard for any obstacle on the way to its target, the big money.

In an inspired collaboration with bestselling author Douglas Thompson, the mature Eddie Richardson is given a voice to reflect on his journey from the scrapyards of South London to the glitz and glamour of the West End nightclubs, to the flesh and tease of Soho, down Downing Street and through the door of Number 10 to the perils of espionage and international intrigue, and his elevation to demigod status in hard-men territory - and finally as a high-security inmate at Her Majesty's pleasure, but with a personal fridge kept well stocked with gourmet food.

No Handcuffs resonates today for, if anything, greed and corruption are more perverse, more rampant. As Eddie Richardson points out: 'We wrote the handbook for them.' Organized Crime True Crime Crime Thought-Provoking Funny
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Easy listen from start to finish, seemed like a really nice guy!
Wouldn't take any liberties with him though! :)

Better than expected!

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Absolutely loved it! I was totally engrossed from beginning to end. Very well written and so fascinating to listen to.

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Eddie sounds like a " brand new" genuine fella. Enjoyed listening to his story. Everything sounded plausible and reasonable. Unlike some autobiographys about gangsters. And isnt bigging himself, his brother or the Krays up. While making it clear that their was bigger and badder characters running London. Legend would make it sound like the Krays and Richardsons were dualing for control... far from it.

Loved it!

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I would like to hear the story from an independent point of you. He makes the Krays sound like they were petty criminals which is obviously not true, so it just makes you wonder how much else of the story is exaggerated. Still enjoyable though.

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Thought this account good especially for the likes off me it's a different world now read a lot of crime books had a friend who lived near the Kraus excellent thanks

Most enlightening.

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