Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off: The Autobiography of Dave Courtney

Courtney, Dave

ISBN 10: 1852278900 / ISBN 13: 9781852278908

Published by Virgin Hardbacks, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off: The Autobiography of Dave Courtney
• Publisher: Virgin Hardbacks
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852278900
• ISBN 13: 9781852278908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 16.2W x 24.1H x 3.8D centimeters 16.2 centimeters width by 24.1 centimeters height by 3.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 663 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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From the Inside Flap

More of a Robin Hood than a robbin' bastard - his own self-portrait - Dave Courtney has been a legend in South London criminal circles since the days of the Krays. Debt collecting, fraud, forgery, handling stolen goods, cheating customs and exise, bank-robbing - he's the man the papers call 'one of the most feared men on the streets of London', and 'one of Britain's most violent, amoral, long-term criminals'.

Now's your chance to meet the man himself. To read his story. To learn what takes a man from a normal family (his father a scout master, his mother a store detective) to being known by his friends - and enemies - as Dodgy Dave; the Yellow Pages of Crime; and Heir to the Krays.

From the backstreets of south-east London, through unlicensed boxing matches in Luton Car Plant and Crystal Palace, and a bouncer's eye view of the bars and clubs of the capital, we'll meet machete-wielding Chinese waiters, gun-toting Dutch drug dealers, and all kinds of acid-house ravers. We'll see Dave bitten, beaten, stabbed and shot; and learn that prison didn't do anything except to make him determined always to be better at not getting caught.

'Dodgy Dave' is no more, as he moves into a career in the media and sports promotion. And in saying goodbye to a life of crime, Dave Courtney tells all in his no-holds-barred, amazing autobiography.