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From the racetrack gangs and safe crackers of the 1500s to the hitmen and drug smugglers of today, The Underworld is the remarkable story of modern British clie
In this updated edition Guardian crime correspondent Buncan Campitel tells of infamous and feared gangsters, unarmed gentemar criminals, the growth in the use of firearms and the rate of prisons and Borstals in providing the underworld with heroes. He illustrates the background to such notorious cases as the Great Train Robbery and the murder of Jack the Hat McVite, gives accounts of the major players in gun fights, drug rings and chudland cane-ups, and charts the transformation of the snitch into the supergrass.
The Underworld reveals in fascinating detail how Mad Frankie Fraser started his career and why the Krays were betrayed, How Safe's vice racketeers got away with it for so long and what made bank rotters move into drugs. Gangland empires, police corruption, shocking headlines and legendary ringleaders all play their part in this gripping and revealing chronicle of crime.
