title: Gangs of Britain: The Gripping True Stories of the Faces Who Run Britain's Organised Crime
author:  Wensley Clarkson 
description: <div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Wensley Clarkson is the author of several additional true crime works, including <I>Costa del Crime, Evil Beyond Belief</I>, and <I>Hitman</I>.</P></div>
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  Praise for Mark Timlin
  
  
  ‘The king of the British hard-boiled thriller’ – Times
  
  
  ‘Grips like a pair of regulation handcuffs’ – Guardian
  
  
  ‘Reverberates like a gunshot’ – Irish Times
  
  
  ‘Definitely one of the best’ – Time Out
  
  
  ‘The mean streets of South London need their heroes tough. Private eye Nick
  Sharman fits the bill’– Telegraph
  
  
  ‘Full of cars, girls, guns, strung out along the high sierras of Brixton and
  Battersea, the Elephant and the North Peckham Estate, all those jewels in the
  crown they call Sarf London’ – Arena
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For Lucy and Schmoo Ramsey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.’
  
  
  Raymond Chandler
  
  
  By falling, we learn to go safely
  
  
  Chinese proverb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is based on a true story.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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