Published by Mainstream (Random House)

ISBN: 1845963024

PUBLISHED MARCH 2008

Featuring: Charlie Bronson, Dave Courtney, Mickey Francis, Paul Knight, Robin Barratt, Bob Etchells, Stuart Cheshire, Jim Shortt, Scott Taylor, Inna Zabrodskaya, Sandy Sanderson, Marc Sand, Andy Walker, Alex Powell, John Badly, Molly Prince and Damien Buckwell.

Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain?s most notorious figures.

Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged up for well over 30 years; how Manchester gangster Mickey Francis ran most of the city's doors back in the '80s; how former East End gangster Dave Courtney misses the violent world of the doors, and how an ex-Foreign Legion bodyguard spent over a week cooped up in a bleak warehouse guarding Iraqi votes in Central Baghdad.

By turns funny, sad and shocking, these candid accounts were written exclusively for this publication by individuals who have spent much of their working lives in what is a volatile, violent and frequently unpredictable industry.

Compiled by former bodyguard, ex-mercenary and well-known nightclub bouncer Robin Barratt, Bouncers and Bodyguards is an exposé of an infamous twilight world about which rumours have often circulated but the truth has never really been uncovered, until now.

 

What people say

'Bouncers and Bodyguards provides a unique insight of worlds that most people will never get to see'. Jamie O'Keefe

'Amazing characters, amazing stories, be glad that you are experiencing them from the safety of this book and not, as the authors did, in the real world of violence'. Geoff Thompson

'A unique insight into a world we all come into contact with everyday, but so few outsiders know anything about'. Forbes KB, Actor (and ex-bodyguard & doorman)

'This is the best book I've read on Door Work since Geof Thompson's
'Watch my Back'' John Brawn - Ireland's best known self-defence instructor

'...in the murky world of security, where real violence is an occupational norm, I'd rather learn from those who have done it!' Lee Morrison, Author of Safe on the Doors

'Robin... Your book about Bouncers and Bodyguards will be a big success!' Ronnie Biggs HMP Prison, Norwich

'This book will GRAB you, escort you to a chair, sit you down and MAKE you read it' Guy Morris, actor