Bestwood Boss: Live by the Gunn
“The jaw-dropping inside story from the boss of the only organised crime group in the UK to be classified as a cartel!” – Shaun Attwood, true crime author/YouTuber
In the early 2000s, Dave Gunn and his brother Colin built the Bestwood Cartel, a multi-million-pound empire based on drugs, extortion and violent crime during a time when Nottingham was labelled Britain’s gun crime capital.
The second season of Sherwood, the BBC crime drama series, was inspired by the activities of the Gunn Brothers and the deadly crime wave in Nottingham, which earned the city the nickname ‘Shottingham’
According to the media, the Gunn Brothers ruled some of the city’s suburbs with an iron fist, drove around in flash cars and were dripping in expensive jewellery. They saw themselves as protectors of their manor – a modern-day mix of Robin Hood and the Kray twins.
As the violence escalated, including brutal punishment shootings between rival gun gangs, the police launched Project Starburst to dismantle the Bestwood Cartel and its rivals.
Much has been written about the Gunn Brothers in the media and books such as Hoods, but no gang leader has ever detailed the real-life warfare in Nottingham in the early 2000s. In Bestwood Boss, Dave Gunn sets the record straight with the first ever insider’s account of what led to the blood-soaked ganglands.
Killer: Charlie Seiga
Charlie Seiga was one of the most dangerous faces of the criminal underworld. There were many unsolved killings which were swift, brutal and brilliantly organised. The victims—liberty takers and sadists—were all hard bastards who dealt in the most vicious kind of violence. Many times the police marked him out as the vicious contract killer.
He was also one of the most successful villains of his time. Police believed that he was the brains behind major firms involved in robberies on banks, security vans, lorry hijacking, safe breaking and many other serious crimes. He lost track of the times he was arrested and questioned about various jobs, but he always had an alibi—a witness to say he wasn’t guilty of the crime. He was the Houdini of the criminal underworld.
His story is a shocking tale of violence and crime; but it is also a story about one man’s fight against the scum who break his deadly code of honour. He hates women beaters and child molesters. His presence was a constant challenge to the low life that preyed on those who could not defend themselves. It is an incredible autobiography of one of the most notorious figures in the history of British crime.
Vigilante: Charlie Seiga
A major breakdown in society has descended and everything is spiralling out of control on council ghettos across the city.
The police don’t have the ability to deal with it and are demoralised. The streets are lawless. Marauding gangs are committing the vilest acts imaginable: rapes, violence against old people, arson attacks on family homes and gun crime. Unfortunately, decent hard working people live among it all. It is an unbearable existence for them. But John Christian – born and bred on a Liverpool council estate – comes up with a solution to the problem: lowlife scum who terrorise the women, kids, old and infirm should be terrorised themselves in a more frightening manner than they could ever imagine.
John Christian recruits and forms his own crew, whose presence on the streets becomes a constant challenge to the lowlife. After capturing one vile yob, the justice they inflict on the scum is swift, brutal and brilliantly organised. They become known as vigilantes who sheriff their own community. This book contains violence in the most graphic detail.
Liverpool’s Notorious Jelly Gang: Charlie Seiga
At the age of just seventeen, Charlie Seiga led a gang of older men into doing daring safe-blowing robberies up and down the country using high explosives (gelignite). This story tells, in intricate detail, all about the methods used in safe blowing and how professional these men were. They became known as ‘The Jelly Gang.’
At that time in the 1950s, safe blowing was regarded as the pinnacle of excellence in the criminal hierarchy. It demanded a superior knowledge and technique, and required meticulous planning to the highest degree. Expertise in the way explosives worked was paramount. Although on some occasions it was a dangerous game, with near death experiences, disaster and injuries in some of the moves that the Jelly Gang pulled off.
The Hyenas: Charlie Seiga
Charlie Seiga never beat up old men or defenceless women, but the old-style villain has long gone. Now the streets are full of marauding criminals with no morals, dignity or loyalty. These are the people who got to Seiga. They call themselves the Hyenas and they venture out at night like a gang of scavengers to carry out their so-called work.
This is the amazing, shocking, violent story of Charlie Seiga’s fate at the hands of the Hyenas and how he made them wish they had not crossed his path.
Untouchable Jimmy Savile
Who was Jimmy Savile? More than anything he was a list of contradictions. He was a practising Catholic who raped young boys and girls and had sex with corpses.
He was a God-fearing believer who participated in satanic rituals. He was an unprecedentedly generous charity fundraiser who was too tight to buy his own meals. He was a friend of princes and dukes who ate bacon sandwiches at his local greasy spoon. He was a peace activist who tied up troublemakers in his nightclubs and had them brutally beaten. He was a fairy godfather who hated children.
Through his relationships with the Royal Family, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul, who gave him a Papal Knighthood, Savile built a powerbase that insulated him from prosecution. Raised to the heights of fame by the BBC, this evil genius preyed on the young and vulnerable for over five decades.
The Untouchable Jimmy Savile book series demolishes the mainstream media narratives portrayed in Netflix’s Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story and the BBC’s The Reckoning to show that Savile’s behaviour was enabled by the most powerful members of the establishment for whom he was a fixer and a procurer.
Armed and Dangerous: London Gangster's Path to Multiple Murders and 45 Years in Prison
After an astonishing 45-year journey through the labyrinthine confines of every single UK prison, John Hilton, now 94, who holds the dubious title of being one of the longest-serving criminals in UK history, is finally breaking his silence.
In his compelling autobiography, he offers a gripping and unfiltered account of his tumultuous life, from his tragic beginnings in the aftermath of World War II to his descent into a life of crime.
Hilton’s first stint in a young offenders’ prison at the age of sixteen came about when he was caught stealing money from the till of a local fruit and veg stall where he worked. During this dark period, he suffered life-altering injuries while incarcerated, losing several fingers and he quickly learned how to navigate the harsh realities of the prison system.
These traumatic experiences only fuelled Hilton’s dangerous path into a life of armed robberies and even murder, cementing his dangerous mind-set.
On one fateful night in 1978, during a robbery gone wrong, Hilton shot a diamond merchant in the back, and accidentally shot his crime partner. He was faced with an uncomfortable decision: whether to let his friend bleed to death and to discard the body or to take him to a hospital, running the risk of being caught for a double homicide.
Detailing the ever-changing prison regime through the decades, Hilton’s autobiography is not merely a chronicle of wrongdoing but a tale of sacrifice, honour and resourcefulness. He candidly takes listeners on a journey through his ruthless and unforgiving mind. This deeply personal account is a must-read for anyone interested in the criminal justice system, the psyche of a dangerous armed robber, the old East End of London and the remarkable gangsters it produced.
Liverpool Bank Robber To Hollywood Butler: My Life with Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor and George Segal
Born into poverty and subjected to physical and mental torture in British care homes, Terry Moogan found himself as a young adult embroiled in a life of crime, hijacking Securicor vans as a means of rebellion. His actions eventually led to his arrest and an 18-year prison sentence, during which he engaged in daredevil escapes.
Moogan’s life took a huge turn when, after working as a butler on the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton took him under their wing. Unfortunately, the ship became a target of an IRA plot, resulting in Moogan losing his job.
Resuming a life of crime back in Britain, he formed a notorious gang of bank robbers, only to be caught at gunpoint red-handed, where he was faced with prison once again.
However, fate had more in store for Moogan. A prison strike granted him a 24-hour release, during which he seized the opportunity and jumped on the next flight from London to Los Angeles. Through his friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, Moogan entered the glamorous world of Hollywood as a butler to the world’s biggest stars. His first client was none other than Clint Eastwood, which marked the beginning of an illustrious career as a Hollywood Butler, where he later went on to work with George Segal and Max Factor.
He hobnobbed with Hollywood elites, including Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, and even cooked for Oprah Winfrey and Joan Rivers upon personal request. He was in such demand that he even turned down jobs with stars, including Steven Spielberg, Mickey Rooney, and Marlon Brando and he could pick whom he wanted to work with.
Moogan’s journey also includes a legal battle with Tom Hanks’ son after a car accident, adding another twist to his life story.
Terry Moogan has a treasure chest of mind-blowing celebrity stories that he is sharing for the first time in Liverpool Bank Robber to Hollywood Butler.
Born in Prison: How I Survived Shootings, Stabbings, Prison, Crack Addiction, Manchester Gangs and Dog Attacks
Harrowing, heart-breaking and often horrific were the challenges that confronted Marvin after his birth in prison. Born in distress, Marvin was wrenched from his drug-addicted parents and deposited into an orphanage. Mistreatment led to him wetting the bed, for which his tyrannical adoptive father would rub Marvin’s face in the urine-soaked sheets.
Only 11-years-old, he was taken by an older boy to a predator’s house and abused.
By his late teens, drugs and crime were a way of life. While in the throes of crack addiction, he was shot, stabbed, beaten with weapons including a spiked ball on a chain, and kidnapped by gangsters and mauled by their dangerous dogs, which left terrible scars all over his body.
In this inspirational memoir, Marvin searches for his birth parents and battles his crack addiction with the help of the woman he loves, determined to start a family and to live his life crime and drug free.
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business was an idea conceived between Paul Ferris and writing partner Reg McKay. When Reg passed away in 2009, Paul got on with his life. A film The Wee Man was based on one of his books and released in 2013.
Three years later, a new alliance was formed between Paul and true crime writers Stuart Wheatman and Steve Wraith, and the idea was reimagined. Paul wanted to pay tribute to Reg while revisiting the notion that he still had things he wanted to say. The book evolved.
In his most revealing book to date, Ferris finishes the journey he and Reg embarked upon. With his life of crime now behind him, he revisits key moments in his criminal career and replays them through philosophical eyes. He calls time on the gangster image, dispelling the myths surrounding organised crime in his city, and lifts the lid on his affiliation with Arthur Thompson – the so-called Godfather of Glasgow.
Paul strips away what we think we know, unveiling truths, exposing lies and reaffirming the police corruption that still exists today. Will he ever escape the big shadow he cast as the wee man? Is business ever truly finished?
Gaol Hawk: Forged in Sheffield
1920s Sheffield was so infested with gangs that it was nicknamed “Little Chicago”.
In 1937, George Orwell wrote: “Sheffield could justly claim to be the ugliest town in the Old World.”
Cut to Hillsborough 1960 and a new breed of criminal, Clyde Broughton, is born into the ‘’Steel City”. An early start in petty crime led to time at Borstal, football trials at “Wednesday”, and an apprenticeship in crime with the notorious Dave Lee. Robbery with violence, burglary, and run-ins with his arch nemeses in CID and the infamous Judge Pickles eventually resulted in a hefty sentence behind bars. Clyde’s story sees him travel through the UK prison system, where he meets some of the country’s most revered faces, including 54 days solitary in Wakefield Prison with the infamous Bobby Maudsley.
Gaol Hawk includes other tales, some humorous, from along the way, including his long time friendship with heavyweight boxer, Paul Sykes, trouble at the local Gypsy Camp, a life-changing machete attack, and an organized hustle filmed by documentary makers entitled Smoking with The Hawk.
Brian Cockerill & Lee Duffy: The Taxmen of Teesside
Brian Cockerill and Lee Duffy were individually forces to be reckoned with. But the day they decided to team up, they became unstoppable. This is the true story of the Taxmen of Teesside, the only book with input from members of the Duffy family.
Operation Sayers
Operation Sayers takes a detailed look at the notorious Sayers brothers’ rise to the top of the criminal ladder on the backstreets of Newcastle’s West End and the authorities’ attempts to bring them crashing back down to earth by any means necessary.
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