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  • The Business

  • Talking with Thieves, Gangsters and Dealers
  • By: Dick Hobbs
  • Narrated by: Dick Hobbs
  • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Business

By: Dick Hobbs
Narrated by: Dick Hobbs
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Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many.

When he was growing up, the East End was rocking with dock strikes, thievery and the kind of family values practiced by the Krays the Tibbs and a few dozen other outlaw clans. Violence was everywhere. Crime was an unavoidable fact of life. However, his real education in Plaistow taught him that the real essence of illegal capitalism is to be found amongst the poor bloody infantry of the crime world: the jump-up merchants, lorry highjackers, warehouse thieves and middle-market drug dealers. These are the people with whom he has spent most of his professional life, and along with more exalted villains such as Mad Frankie Frazer and Charlie Richardson, these are the characters who feature in the book, weaving the stories of these fearsome gangsters with the history and evolution of the UK underworld.

©2021 Dick Hobbs (P)2021 Bonnier Books Ltd
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