Surviving the Krays: The Final Explosive Secret about the Firm

Teale, David

ISBN 10: 1529106907 / ISBN 13: 9781529106909

Published by Ebury Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving the Krays: The Final Explosive Secret about the Firm
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529106907
• ISBN 13: 9781529106909
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

David first met the Krays when he was seventeen years old. He was drawn into London's underworld, and became Ronnie's reluctant foot soldier, driver, errand boy. He was close to murder, and witnessed menaces and the increasingly psychotic behaviour of the most feared men in gangster land.

Unbeknown to David, his brother Bobby had bravely turned informer at great risk to his own safety and that of his brothers. That had its own consequences. But why, when the police were being furnished with eye-witness statements, from an impeccable source, were they seemingly incapable of bringing the twins to justice? The Krays were untouchable.

After tireless research through newly released documents in the National Archives, and piecing previously classified information together with his own, first-hand knowledge of the time, David Teale uncovers the shocking new truth, revealed in this book for the first time.

David's story rewrites history.

About the Author

David Teale was born into a family of seven in wartime London's Holborn. One of three brothers whose lives were forever changed by the Kray Firm, David was a teenager when he first met Ronnie Kray and experienced his unspeakable cruelty first-hand. His older brother Bobby secretly turned informer on the Firm, and David was imprisoned by the State 'for his own protection'. He has spent years researching in the National Archives and previously classified documents to uncover the truth about the Krays.