Since the publication of, Mad Frank, Francis Fraser has become something of a media celebrity. He has conducted tours of the East End, performed one-man shows in Rhyl and Dublin and appeared in films. In this follow-up to the book, he provides further anecdotes of his life in and out of prison.

Since the publication of his book, MAD FRANK, Francis Fraser has become a media celebrity. He has lectured on a tour of the East End, given one-man shows in Rhyl, the Fortune Theatre and in Dublin. He has made a second film in which he plays a gangster. MAD FRANK AND HIS FRIENDS is a follow-up to the highly successful MAD FRANK. In it, he tells anecdotes of his friends and acquaintances, in and out of prison. It will start in 1943 when he was first shot at and continue until his antics in the present day.

MAD FRANK - Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story - the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure in Britain's underworld. A peer of the Krays and the Richardsons, arguably as influential and certainly as dangerous. Fraser has served over forty years in prisons and mental institutions for his various crimes. MAD FRANK AND FRIENDS - Frankie Fraser made hundreds of enemies over his fifty-year criminal career. His second volume of memoirs explains why the criminal code to which he belonged produced alliances that were equally as powerful and far more enduring.

Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them. With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties. Packed with new information, and featuring some of the most famous names in the London underworld, this is a fascinating slice of gangland history seen through the eyes of Frank Fraser and his two renegade sons.