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Gang Land
- From Footsoldiers to Kingpins
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs
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Summary
British organised crime has changed beyond all recognition over the last five years. Youth violence, the drug trade and rising levels of gun crime are rarely out of the news. Beginning on the troubled streets of the inner cities, Gang Land takes its readers on a journey up through the underworld hierarchy until it finally reaches the very highest levels, occupied by shadowy ‘Mr Big’ characters.
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- Mr n whitmore
- 09-07-20
1st class
loved it, brilliant truthful and shocking are just a few words for this book. highly recommended 👌
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- Miss L
- 13-12-13
a good insight
Where does Gang Land rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Thompson gives a good insight into the various criminal organisations operating within the UK, some background into their history, and testimonial accounts of how each operates with the other. There are many interesting parts to the book in which he describes getting high on crack cocaine and heroin, recounts almost getting beaten up by bouncers whilst pursuing an interview, and mock selling drugs in Camden.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-09-19
excellent
great book from start to finish keeps you going right until the end of it
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- Dean
- 10-10-18
Great listen
A great listen from the
start to the finish definitely would recommend five stars from me
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- James Beecher
- 22-11-19
really meh
Narrator attempts various accents.... all quite poorly. A book without direction. A total meander that isn't a bad listen but not recommendable.
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- terry entwisle
- 19-04-21
Fantastic read !
can not believe what I have just listened to, held my interest through out just a brilliant interesting listen , definitely will be looking for more titles from this author and narrator , can't sing there praises enough !
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- Niceaspies
- 11-12-19
Good story, terrible narration
The book is a bit of a meander through some seemingly unconnected insights into gang culture generally but Tony Thompson clearly knows his stuff and it is always an interesting subject matter. However, the narration, while for the most part pitched correctly, suffers massively from the accents that are affected throughout. The geordie hamsters are the best of a bad bunch but for god’s sake, the Indian, West Indian and African accents are a bit like non French versions of Rene artois’s accent in allô allô.
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- Pete Page
- 29-09-21
' A detailed who's who of the criminal underworld'
Enjoyable account of the jockeying for control of the criminal subculrure. Interesting to hear the early chapters about gangs, their recruiting mechanism and how far people go just to avoid beng a.victim through their own meting out of violence to thei rivals. Yep worth hearing. 7/10
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- Deborah McLeary/ James McLeary
- 09-05-19
average
I struggled to finish it because it was just a long list of crime story anecdotes that got monotonous
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- Sam
- 08-06-13
Ok but thats about it
The book is ok however im struggling to stick with it.
The narator has a really dreary voice and what makes it worse is when they cover statements from certain gang members that have been interviewed. If u want an example imagine prince phillip or david cameron voice speaking as though they are in a street gang with words like whagwan, man'dem and all that you just cant take it seriosly.
On the plus side it doews cover from drug dealers on street corners to street gangs to the big players in more organised crime.
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