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Dave Courtney, whose autobiography, Stop the Ride, I Want to Get
Off, was a huge bestseller, reveals all from another hidden aspect
of London's underworld. Notorious in London's criminal underworld,
Dave is also a big name in the club and dance scene. Raving Lunacy
is the story of this double life, and how one world spilled over
into the other. From parties in prisons, sewers, railway arches and
aircraft hangers, to legitimacy (Dave and his partner Terry Turbo
won 1999's 'Best Large Promotions of the Year'); Raving Lunacy
covers the ground that Stop the Ride left out, as Dave details what
went on after the doors were shut tight. The clientele that came to
the parties was, in Dave's words, 'the most colourful characters
London has to offer'. Dave was, as ever, in the thick of it and saw
and experienced the explosion, the fallout, the casualties and the
successes. Told with characteristic humour and brazen honesty,
Raving Lunacy reveals the darker side of the era known as the
summer of love.
This autobiography has made London's most infamous celebrity
gangster - and the inspiration for the character Big Chris, played
by Vinny Jones, in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - an
international star. Read about Dave Courtney's shady and amoral
past, his time in jail, the violent encounters that put him there,
and why he has decided it's time to get out of the crime business.
Meet machete-wielding Chinese waiters, unlicensed boxing promoters
and debt collectors. See Dave bitten, beaten, stabbed and shot; and
learn that prison didn't do anything except to make him determined
always to be better at not getting caught.
Dave Courtney, 'one of the most feared men on the streets of
London' reveals the characters, both fictional and all too real
that have most influenced his colourful - and criminal - life. As
you might expect, Dodgy Dave's ideas of what constitutes a hero and
a villain is at times a little, well, dodgy. But Dave challenges
our notions of what it is to be heroic in his usual candid and
witty style.
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