The manuscript, rediscovered ten years after Reg Kray’s death from cancer in 2000, is his memoir of his East End childhood in Bethnal Green, his days as a semi-pro boxer, and the forming of friendships, which would endure through to the Kray Twins’ reign of terror in the 1960s and beyond.
Rita Smith and Jon Lee grew up alongside their notorious cousins, Reg and Ron Kray. Joe actually lived under the same roof as Reg, Ron, older brother Charlie and their tempestuous parents. The authors have never before publicly spoken about their family, but within these pages they share their thoughts and personal memories, along with a wealth of Kray family photographs.
Bareknuckle fighter and East End legend Lenny McLean sat down for months talking to Peter Gerrard to write one of the best-selling books of all-time, The Guv’nor. This companion to it, contains riveting conversations from the original tapes, raw and unedited.
Foreword by Mohammed Ali
A bareknuckle fighter in the same league as Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw, Monaghan has an unbroken record of 114 fights. Muhammed Ali had this to say about the author: “Paddy and I have been friends since the early 1960s. He has a great story to tell, and he knows it. He has written from the heart.”