The Guv'nor - Lenny McLean

After staring the excellent book on Paul Briggs I forgot to bring it with me on what I'll describe as my run-away-get-away so I needed aothr similar book, and I'd heard nothing but good things about this 'un. You may wonder why I mentioned Briggy's name well to be honest the books, and the lifestyles of the two are similar, yet opposite at the same time. For example both were beaten as kids, Briggs by his father, Lenny by his step father, both beat people up to get along and both were legitamately hard hitting bastards (no offence to either man there). Differences are Lenny's who anti-drug's stance whilst Paul took drugs...did sold and dealt ...

Lenny Mclean is a book that you must read over and over to bring into mind who the man was , To overcome such a harsh upbringing at the hands of his step father. Lenny was a book brought for me over a year ago and I havent gone a month without re-reading it. Classed as the deadliest bare knuckle fighter in Britain beating roy ' pretty boy ' shaw. Lenny rubbed shoulders with the famous and the harsh underground of crime. In lennys words whatever he did was for his family in his words to put steam on the table. Lennys early life brought him to understand that the beating as a kid made him a ' hard bastard ' with over 3000 fights and ...