THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CRIME BOSS OF POSTWAR BRITAIN
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Billy Hill was Britain’s first celebrity gangster. Born in London’s King’s Cross, Hill was a charming character with a deadly edge who elevated himself to the very top of the pantheon of organised crime. By the early 1950’s he had control of the city’s gambling rackets and masterminded a heist that set the template for the Great Train Robbery. An ally turned enemy of Jewish gangster Jack ‘Spot’ Comer, Hill ended Spot’s criminal career with a razor attack by his infamous henchman, Mad Frankie Fraser. By the 1950’s, Hill was holding court (and seducing female aristocrats) at the Soho address that now houses the Groucho club. Hill’s talents amassed him immense wealth and enabled him to live a life of lavish extravagance. Retiring to homes in Spain and Tangiers, he acted as mentor to two up-and-coming youngsters known as the Krays… Gangland chronicler Wensley Clarkson expertly documents each chapter of Hill’s outrageous, violent, crime-filled life using exclusive contributions from Hill’s family as well as many of London’s most legendary criminal faces of the last 50 years to compile the biography of King Billy, the first rich gangster to colonise the ‘Costa Del Crime’.

Wensley Clarkson is a investigative journalist and the bestselling author of many true crime and biography titles’ including Public Enemy Number One, Moody, Killing Charlie, Bindon and Hit ‘Em Hard, which detailed the violent, crime-filled life of legendary gangster Jack ‘Spot’ Comer.

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