TITLE: THE LONG FIRM

AUTHOR: JAKE ARNOTT

DATE PUBLISHED: 1999

DATE READ: July 2007 (audiobook)

NOTES: Well researched story of sixties London gangland told from different perspectives – rentboy, would be actress, corrupt MP, fellow criminal Jack the Hat and hippy sociology lecturer. Focuses on Harry Starks, a charismatic gangster with very brutal tendencies.

Ambitious sweep across the decades which includes factual figures – Kray brothers, Judy Garland etc. The inclusion of the sociology/Open University part was very entertaining and there was a satisfactorily dramatic ending. Very well read on this audiobook by Dave John.