Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose of the British Drugs Scene - Bernard O'Mahoney

I've been a fan of gangster autobiographies for as long as I can remember, but they tend to be very hit or miss. The likes of the Krays, Frankie Fraiser, Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw may well have the sort of worldwide reputation that backs up their claims, but for every one of those there seem to be a dozen wannabe gangsters publishing their own puffed up claims to fame. Bernard O'Mahoney was a doorman who socialized with a bunch of drug dealers and low level gangsters who ended up dead after a botched drug deal. Bernie's links to fame are that he worked for the club that supplied Leah Betts the fatal does of ecstasy, and his mates ended up being made the topic ...  Read the complete review