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FROM GANGLAND TO PROMISED LAND

Once a feared figure in the criminal underworld of London's East End, the author moved in a world of violence and money. He wore sharply cut suits built to conceal weapons, ran a lucrative drug trade, lived in luxury and kept company with women and fast cars. One night outside a club he came close to killing a man. This book is his own account of how his life took a turn no one around him expected, and of the road that led him away from the gang and towards a very different kind of future.

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