Mad Frank and sons / David Fraser, Patrick Fraser and Beezy Marsh.
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TextPublisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780283072499; 0283072490Subject(s): Fraser, Frankie, 1923-2014 | Fraser, Frankie, 1923-2014 -- Family | Fraser family | Criminals -- England -- BiographySummary: AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Family follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them. With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Family follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them. With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties.
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