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The Dirty Dozen

The real story of the rise and fall of London's most feared armed robbery gang

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The Dirty Dozen

By: Noel 'Razor' Smith
Narrated by: Karl Jenkinson, Noel 'Razor' Smith
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THE TRUE STORY OF LONDON'S MOST PROLIFIC ARMED ROBBERY GANG

The average bank robbery takes around four minutes. The essential ingredients are ruthlessness, cunning and plenty of bottle. You'll also need a weapon, a disguise and a getaway car. If you have all those things, then you could go to work right now. The Bradish boys had all these things and, boy, did they go to work.

The 'Dirty Dozen' were a ruthless federation of criminals who ran the armed robbery game in London for over a decade.

When charismatic leader 'Gentleman' Jim Doyle was jailed, the innovative but violent Bradish brothers, Sean and Vincent, stepped up to take the throne. Hardened by a life in London's most lawless corners, they recruited a tight-knit crew to forge a reputation as the brutal kings of their underworld trade.

Banks, security vans, post offices, travel agents - anywhere was fair game and nowhere was safe. With endless money at their disposal, the gang spent freely on cars, drugs and decadence. Life was good.

But with the Met's tough-as-nails Flying Squad hot on their heels, a member of the inner circle cracked under the pressure and turned grass - and so began the thrilling chase-down of the Bradish boys and their illicit empire. The Dirty Dozen is the real story of the rise and fall of London's most feared crime syndicate. Crime Freedom & Security Organized Crime Politics & Government True Crime War & Crisis Robbery Exciting Thought-Provoking
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An interesting , well written and very well read book , revealing insights into the mad world of these armed robbers.
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He whined on time and time again about how unfair the Flying Squad were in shooting dead these well armed , dangerous thugs who stated that they were prepared to open fire on anyone who threatened their liberty. How like people completely outside of the law who think they're being treated unfairly by the justice system. They want to dish out violence but expect everyone to be fair with them. Hypocrites.

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What a listen, amazing insight into the world of armed robbers and their going on.
I was so taken with the story that I went and researched the gang and people and even found the YouTube clips of the arrest.
Certainly a great listen and well read

Fantastic listen

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Having grown up in the Wembley area and the same age I recall alot of names in this book.We used to drink in the local pubs and I knew some of these characters and was amazed how long they were at large when we all knew what they were doing.Some of the younger robbers just got mixed up with the wrong crowd ,it could of happened to alot of us at the time.Some very familiar locations and persons it became quite a rough area for a certain time .
Interesting to read how easily they managed so many jobs,doubt very much in this modern era with GPS,cctv,dna,etc they could be so prolific .

NW London in the late 80s

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Always enjoy Noel’s books, one of the best when it comes to telling the truth about crime

Great incite into Armed Robberies

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I love this kind of genre anyway, geezers, cockney gangsters, bank robberies. right up my street, John! . I was glad that the writer did the prologue and epilogue, it added something to it, though the narrator was a spot-on choice. For the most part, he played it fairly deadpan, which meant that when he came up with the occasional unexpected and deadpan cockney rhyming slang, I was falling about laughing. If you like this kind of scene or content anyway, this is a must buy. I've already bought the next one with this narrator reading.

Brilliant

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