Villains
Title | Villains PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ferris |
Publisher | Black & White Publishing |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2010-07-30 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1845025245 |
Paul Ferris was one of Britain's most feared gangsters for twenty-five years. Now, in Villains, Ferris reveals the real inside story of the villains he met and worked with, the common thugs and big-time players that surrounded him and the world of violence and fear he lived in every day of his life. In Glasgow, London and Manchester, Paul Ferris knew and worked with the biggest gangsters in the UK - everyone from Arthur Thompson in Glasgow to the Addams family in London and Rab Carruthers in Manchester. Villains is the story of the hard lives of hard men by someone who knows. There's jewel heists, crime families, new stories about Glasgow's Godfather, Arthur Thompson, a secret meeting with loyalist 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair, the Glasgow hard man who loved bingo, and much more. And, when it comes to villains, it takes one to know one.
My Pal The Boxing Legend Ken Buchanan
Title | My Pal The Boxing Legend Ken Buchanan PDF eBook |
Author | Jock Mcinnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781838186807 |
My Pal The Boxing Legend, Ken Buchanan. The book is a series of rounds (Chapters) containing short stories with the author enjoying life with Scotland's greatest ever boxer, Ken Buchanan. Stories of general life in the company of the great man long after his boxing career finished. Travel, meeting other great fighters at corporate events etc. The book will appeal to all adults, all athletes, all military individuals, and the general public, looking for a no holds bard account of a great friendship between two people. One, the greatest boxer ever to come out of Scotland and the other a humble, ex Black Watch soldier who has raised millions of pounds for charitable causes. Both men hold are proud holders of the MBE. (Member of the Order of the British Empire, awarded for an outstanding achievement or service to the community).
King of the Gypsies
Title | King of the Gypsies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh |
Publisher | Milo Books Ltd |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2016-04-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
Wheels Rolling at Eight
Title | Wheels Rolling at Eight PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Anderson |
Publisher | Grosvenor House Publishing |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2018-08-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1786233274 |
Up the creek without a paddle (almost) in Papua New Guinea; a sheep's nose and silver horns in Kabardino-Balkarskaya; dancing with horses on the Hungarian plains; chasing whales in Newfoundland; snooker with a frozen goose; at home with the family linked to the plot to assassinate Hitler and receiving a hair tonic from the Chinese – by mouth. A farmer's son from south-west Scotland, Arthur Anderson began work in 1961 as a copy boy on "The Scotsman" in Edinburgh shortly after leaving school at 16. As he looks back over a working lifetime as a farming journalist and television producer Arthur claims that these trials and tribulations were never even hinted at in his various job interviews.
Hands of Stone
Title | Hands of Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Giudice |
Publisher | Milo Books Ltd |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2016-04-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
ROBERTO DURAN is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest boxer of all time, he held world titles at four different weights and is the only professional in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have gone down in fistic folklore and his pro record of 104 wins, 69 by KO, in 120 fights puts him in an elite group of fighters. They called him Manos de Piedra: “Hands of Stone”. American journalist Christian Guidice has written the first – and definitive – story of Duran’s extraordinary life both in and out of the ring. He has interviewed the fighter himself, his family and closest friends and scores of his opponents to separate truth from myth and get to the heart of one of the most intriguing sports stars of modern times. Duran was born in utter poverty in the Panama Canal Zone, the illegitimate son of a serving US soldier and a local girl. He grew up in the streets, fighting to survive. His talent with his fists was soon apparent, and on one fabled occasion he even knocked down a horse with a single punch for a bet. He grew into a fighter’s fighter, and his willingness to take on anyone, anywhere, anytime and never take a step back made him a huge favorite. From his wild early bouts to his stunning boxing debut in New York, Giudice traces the blazing trail of his career: the controversial title win over Scot Ken Buchanan; his unification of the lightweight crown against great rival Esteban DeJesus; his glorious defeat of Ray Leonard and the subsequent debacle of the No Más encounter; his ferocious comeback and redemption, and the long, eventful twilight of his matchless career. Here also are both the public and private sides of Duran: his volatility, his kindness and reckless generosity, his partying, his links with the notorious regime of General Noriega, and above all his chilling love of battle.
Vendetta
Title | Vendetta PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ferris |
Publisher | Black & White Publishing |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2005-10-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1845023978 |
The armed guards and Alsatians stayed put as the prison gates slammed shut. 'I'm going straight,' Paul Ferris announced to the press, then sped off in a waiting car. Before he'd reached the first corner, the journalists were after him. And they weren't the only ones . . . Paul Ferris ruled crime in Scotland. He had links to London firms, Manchester gangs and Liverpool faces. He'd been accused of murdering The Godfather's son, Fatboy, and found not guilty. Some cops talked of killing him. Now he was telling the world that he was walking away from his life of crime. But would they let him? Vendetta tells the astonishing inside story of what happened next to Paul Ferris. And it's a story of international gangsters, hit contracts, murders, bank scams, Essex-boy torturers, corrupt politics, crackhead hitmen, knife duels, terrorists and more. In Vendetta, Paul Ferris slashes open the underbelly of Britain's streets and exposes the dark forces that police them as well as revealing the truth about what really happened to him and about the conspiracies and corruption that won't leave him alone. For years, new enemies and old foes have tried to silence Paul Ferris. But it's Ferris who's here to tell the tale while many of them are not. And some tale it is.
Theatre Scotland
Title | Theatre Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | English drama |
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