![]() But the truth is that I rapidly became fascinated by them, and looked on whatever risks I was running as part of a deal that most young writers would have dreamed of.Īt the same time, I would guess that it must have been my total ignorance of the world of organised crime that convinced them I was harmless, and helped me gain their confidence. I suppose that had I known that Ron was dangerously homicidal, and that the two of them had murdered the unfortunate Jack ‘the Hat’ McVitie barely two weeks before I met them, I would have refused to have anything to do with them. The twins would have loved it, but unfortunately they, and their brother Charles, failed to make it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The calendar on my desk also reminds me that I’ll be eighty-five next month, and that I’ve stayed alive long enough to see Tom Hardy’s great performance as both Ron and Reg Kray in Legend, which is based upon my book. Memory tells me that I’d just had my thirty-seventh birthday when I met the Krays in that improbable stately home which I describe in my introduction to The Profession of Violence, and agreed with two criminals I had never met before to write their biography for a film they desperately wanted. ![]()
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