Bandit Country

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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. . .

Author Bio

Jamie Reid is the author of the non-fiction books, A License to Print Money (short listed for the 1992 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award), Days Like These, The Education of a Racing Lover (short listed for 2004 William Hill gambling Book of the year award). His true story Doped, about the 1960's racehorse doping gangs, was the winner of the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He is also a journalist and has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, Harpers and Queen, the New Statesman, Money Observer and Private Eye.