I thought this book looked interesting as it was a true account of a member of the Kray brothers' firm during a large part of their reign of the East End in the 1960s.
It felt to me as if the story was told almost verbatim - not necessarily a bad thing - as if it was an old family friend sitting at a party recounting his youth as a '60s gangster. The book felt real because of this and not over-edited.
However, I did feel I wanted to know more about what had happened before Dickson became involved with the firm (a brief chapter at the beginning by an editor would have supplied this). I also felt that Dickson's eventual sentence and what happened to him after the trial was skimmed over, the book seemed to finish quite quickly once this was told.
It felt to me as if the story was told almost verbatim - not necessarily a bad thing - as if it was an old family friend sitting at a party recounting his youth as a '60s gangster. The book felt real because of this and not over-edited.
However, I did feel I wanted to know more about what had happened before Dickson became involved with the firm (a brief chapter at the beginning by an editor would have supplied this). I also felt that Dickson's eventual sentence and what happened to him after the trial was skimmed over, the book seemed to finish quite quickly once this was told.