Nipper Read by Leonard Read

Nipper Read by Leonard Read

Just after 7pm on the evening of Tuesday 4 March 1969, at the Old Bailey, the jurors filed back into Court 1 to give their verdict on Ronald Kray. The word "Guilty" brought to a triumphant conclusion the months of painstaking work put in by Leonard Read and his team in their efforts to bring the infamous Kray brothers to justice. In this book, Leonard Read tells his own story, that of the small Nottingham lad, nicknamed Nipper, who went to join the Metropolitan Police - because of their less stringent height requirements - and who rose through the ranks to become part of the team solving the Great Train Robbery. In 1964 Read was invited to put together a team to "have a go" at the Kray gang - the seemingly untouchable East End criminals whose reign of terror involved blackmail, protection rackets and finally murder. In a recreation of the operation, Read and James Morton cover the case from the first time Nipper saw Ronald Kray in a pub in the Whitechapel Road - where he turned up flanked by minders - to the brothers' eventual arrest in May 1968 and the nailbiting suspense of their sensational trial.

A tasty dish.. a tribute to the author's frankness and his co-author's skill - INDEPENDENT

Vividly described - DAILY TELEGRAPH

Leonard Read joined the Metropolitan Police in 1947 and then as a CID member was invited in 1964 to investigate the Kray gang. James Morton, Editor-in-Chief of the New Law Journal, is the author of the Gangland series. He has long experience as a solicitor specialising in criminal work.

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ISBN 13	9780316858281
ISBN 10	0316858285
Title	Nipper Read
Author	Leonard Read
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2001-07-05
Number of pages	352
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