Bullets, Blood and Broken Bodies: the extraordinary criminal career of Buller Ward

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Revised edition of the stunning autobiography of the East London villain Henry 'Buller' Ward, telling the shockingly brutal story of his life in crime.
Discovering a talent for street-fighting at an early age the young Henry becomes a professional boxer but quickly abandons boxing and begins his journey into crime; thieving 'professionally' and putting his lethal fighting skills to good use as a minder.
Soon he receives his first prison sentence and his career as a feared gangster is reinforced when Buller becomes deeply involved in the notorious Kray twins violent rise through London's underworld. Along the way he witnesses the brutal deaths of three of his closest criminal allies.
Realising that the Krays are becoming increasingly unhinged and are beginning to attack their own friends and allies, Buller tries to distance himself from them but becomes involved instead with a Fascist leader and is approached to assassinate an African dignitary.
The end to his tenuous friendship with the Kray twins is predictably violent and Buller plans to kill them in revenge. However, his plans are thwarted by their arrest and, instead, Henry is accused of killing his best friend!
Tired of violence and conspiracies Henry attempts to 'go straight' but soon finds himself drawn back into the brutal world he'd inhabited for half-a-century, as he remarkably continues debt-collecting and fighting younger men into his sixties!
This is the incredible true story of Henry 'Buller' Ward; one of the most feared men ever to walk London's streets.