Bandit Country
- Author Jamie Reid
- Narrator Karl Jenkinson
- Publisher Bonnier Books UK
- Publish Date 8 June 2023
- Run Time 8 hours and 54 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, True crime.
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What to expect
Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen.
Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960's gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia.
It is an emotional, visceral story of brothers: the Luvaglios, who dreamed of an empire founded among the hard industrial skylines and bridges of Newcastle, built on good times and bright lights - dreams that, for a moment, were lived in technicolour; and the Kray twins, who looked up to this new kingdom from London and saw a slice of action they wanted for themselves.
And above all, it is a story of betrayal, murder and a shocking miscarriage of justice, as empires crumble, friends turn on friends, and the good times come screeching to a halt. Sure to be loved by fans of Peaky Blinders, this story - that inspired classic British gangster film Get Carter - isn't quite like anything you've read before. Turn the page and roll the dice. . .
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Only loses a star as the story gets a bit bogged down in a court case which becomes tedious at times and the narratoru2019s attempt at a Gordie accent are left wanting, apart from those 2 minor criticisms itu2019s definitely worth listening to.
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