Laurie O’Leary
Ronnie Kray
A man among men
Headline ( 2001)
Foreword by Barbara Windsor
Laurie O’Leary knew the Krays since childhood, and remained Ronnie’s closest friend throughout his life. Recollecting his wild times with the Kray gang, he describes the colourful characters who made up the Krays’ ever-changing circle of friends and enemies, and reveals the private side of the complex and troubled Ron Kray: how he reacted to being certified insane after a nervous breakdown in 1958, and how he coped with being a homosexual in a hard man’s world.