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Mad Frank and Sons: Tougher than the Krays, Frank and his boys on gangland, crime and doing time

Mad Frank and Sons: Tougher than the Krays, Frank and his boys on gangland, crime and doing time

by David Fraser (Author), David Fraser (Author), Beezy Marsh (Author), Pat Fraser (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

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Synopsis

Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them.

With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties. Packed with new information, and featuring some of the most famous names in the London underworld, this is a fascinating slice of gangland history seen through the eyes of Frank Fraser and his two renegade sons.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 02 Jun 2016
ISBN 10: 0283072490
ISBN 13: 9780283072499
Book Overview: The real boss of Soho and his bank robbing boys tell the truth about the Krays, the Richardsons and the family business.

Media Reviews
Reminiscing on days gone by, this compelling book is a fascinating look into gang history through the eyes of Frank Fraser and two of his sons. The Sun Safely in the past, Fraser's story becomes nostalgic - a swansong not just for a psychopath but for the world he represented, with its supposed codes and false camaraderie. This is an arresting portrait of a bygone era. The Mail on Sunday A brilliantly structured and gripping account of an amazing family Kimberley Chambers
Author Bio
David Fraser is one of the sons of Frank Fraser, West End gangland crime boss. Frank and his sons have, together, spent more than sixty years at Her Majesty's Pleasure in some of Britain's toughest prisons. Frank was a gangland enforcer for crime boss Billy Hill before becoming a leader in the underworld of the Krays and Richardsons. Patrick and David's criminal career includes armed robbery and drug-running. Both are now retired. Along with his brother, Pat Fraser, their book, Mad Frank and Sons, accounts growing up as part of a crime family as bank robbers themselves, personal accounts of their father and his closest relatives, and a deep account of the life of one of England's most notorious leaders of organised crime. Pat Fraser is one of the sons of Frank Fraser, West End gangland crime boss. Frank and his sons have, together, spent more than sixty years at Her Majesty's Pleasure in some of Britain's toughest prisons. Frank was a gangland enforcer for crime boss Billy Hill before becoming a leader in the underworld of the Krays and Richardsons. Patrick and David's criminal career includes armed robbery and drug-running. Both are now retired. Along with his brother, David Fraser, their book, Mad Frank and Sons, accounts growing up as part of a crime family as bank robbers themselves, personal accounts of their father and his closest relatives, and a deep account of the life of one of England's most notorious leaders of organised crime. Beezy Marsh is an award-winning journalist, who has spent more than 20 years making the headlines in newspapers including Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. This was never going to be enough for a girl from Hartlepool, whose primary school teacher told her to give up her dream of becoming a poet and concentrate on being a nurse instead. Thirty years later, give or take, she became an author. Family and relationships are at the heart of her writing and she is a firm believer that sisters, mothers and wives are the glue which binds everything together. She writes romantic fiction, as well as memoir and biography, including her book Keeping My Sisters Secrets, and somehow finds time to write a blog about her life as an imperfect mother to two young boys, in between tackling a never-ending pile of laundry and doing the school run. She is the author of Mad Frank and Sons, alongside the two sons of gangland crime boss Frank Fraser.