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From Gangland to Promised Land: Meet the Man Behind the Machete by John Pridmore, Greg Watts (Paperback, 2004)
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As Greavsie used to say , this is a game of two halves . There are not many books with such ridiculously small typeface that i would persevere with (why do publishers deliberately make their books hard to read?) , but this gripping mixture of ducking and diving is one you can't put down ..at least not for the first half. John Pridmore is (was) a villain with every scam going which makes for an entertaining read. It's almost all true crime books rolled into one - violence , drug dealing , retribution , intimidation of witnesses , fraud , bouncing, the works . There are some genuinely comic moments too like the time he tried to get away with altering a £10 B&B receipt to £100 and honestly thought he would get away with it! After a close shave where he could've been sent down for years , he gets a job in a community centre/youth club full of charver lunatics taking liberties , his violent past making him the perfect man for the job and yet again some good tales ensue. That however , is pretty much that, and we're barely halfway through. He has found God by then , and isn't shy of telling us. Everything is analysed with a religious bent . Even if he went down the shops to get a loaf of bread he'd probably say it was God's will. How someone so full of charisma (and , fair enough , evil) can wind up so dull , i don't know , and believe me i TRIED to read the rest of it , but after a few pages of "lord this lord that" i had to call it a day. One thing i would say is it has probably made him a better person given his lifestyle in the first half , and he would've been dead or in prison if he'd carried on. It was just a shame that there wasn't more of his old life.Read full review
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