A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal

by Noel 'Razor' Smith (Author)

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  2004

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  A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted criminal Noel Razor Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal, it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly brutalized young offenders and a frank, unsentimental acknowledgement of the thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating and frightening by turns, it also reveals Razor Smith to be a remarkably talented writer.

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  2004

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  At the age of 16 Razor Smith stood in the dock of the Old Bailey charged with armed-robbery, GBH, and possession of a firearm with intent. He survived a borstal system that was in reality a gladiator school for young criminals, and came out hardened to violence, embittered to the system and determined to pursue a life of crime. Over the years his addiction to violence diminished, but the thrill of the crime never went away: by the time he was given a life-sentence in 1998, he calculates that he had committed over 100 armed robberies.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $17.84

  A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted felon Noel Razor' Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal, it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly brutalized young offenders and a frank, unsentimental acknowledgement of the thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating and frightening by turns, it also reveals Razor Smith to be a remarkably talented writer.