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A increasingly rare hardback copy of ‘FACES: A PHOTOGENIC JOURNEY THROUGHT THE UNDERWORLD’ by Bernard O.Mahoney & Brian Anderson.
Villains, Gangsters or `Faces` as they prefer to be called are the men, gang and family members that have been making newspaper headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past 50 years. Some of these individuals are household names, strangers talk about them as if they are long lost friends but few would recognise them if their paths crossed in the street. Kray, Richardson, Ferris, Fraser, Thompson and Dark, the mere mention of these people has, in the past, struck fear into individuals and in some cases, entire communities. Despite their notoriety, the faces of many of Britain s most notorious criminals remain largely unknown. That is until now. For the very first time, Britain s most infamous and influential characters, crooks and `businessmen` are depicted going about their everyday lives in this two part book, which will undoubtedly become an important record of our social history. In part one, the combatants in Scotland s bloody gang war are captured in a series of outstanding and often shocking photographs. And when the war spills over the border into England, villains from the cities of Manchester, London and Newcastle are featured going about their grisly work in images that have received praise from some of the top photographers in the world. In part two of Faces, there are equally impressive images of villains from Scotland, the Midlands, London, Liverpool, Essex, Ireland and Wales. Forget the celebrity gangsters that brag and boast about crimes that they dreamt up in front of their computer screens for inclusion in their fantasy filled memoirs. Forget the football hooligans who have promoted themselves from being social nuisances into underworld gang bosses and forget the steroid enhanced doormen who stuff their bloated frames into ill fitting dinner jackets and then brag in their books that they are the Guv`nor. The people featured in part one and two of these remarkable books are the real deal, they have been there, done it and have the T-shirt, they are the UK s genuine Faces.