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Edinburgh-based publishing house Black & White has unleashed Gangs of Glasgow, True Crime From the Streets, telling the brutal story of Glasgow’s most fearsome gangs through the years.

Written by best-selling author Robert Jeffrey, an acclaimed authority on Glasgow crime history, Gangs of Glasgow covers the evolution of city gangs, from knife fights on the streets to hi-tech 21st century crime.

Gangs of Glasgow takes an in-depth look at the evolution of the city’s gangs from organised mobs of the Thirties to the smart-suited men of violence of the modern day.

Mr Jeffrey said, “In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life.

“The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war gangs like the Billy Boys, the Norman Conks and the Redskins, is largely gone, but in each era new gangs have risen to take their place. Battles over turf and control of the drugs trade still make regularly lurid headlines.”

Gangs of Glasgow author Robert Jeffrey is a long-serving Glasgow journalist and the former managing editor of the Herald group of newspapers. His many best-sellers include Glasgow’s Hard Men, Blood on the Streets, Glasgow’s Godfather and Crimes Past.

Gangs of Glasgow is published in paperback by Black & White at £7.99 on 24th July 2008.

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For further information please contact Alison McBride at Black & White Publishing
Tel: 0131 625 4500 E: ali@blackandwhitepublishing.com
Issued on behalf of Black & White Publishing by Liquorice Media tel 0141 564 8058
Date 18th July 08




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