Best-selling author Robin Mc Gibbon was welcomed into the inner sanctum of the Kray twins. For more than ten years he saw Britains most notorious killers at close quarters
- Reggie in top-security prisons his bisexual brother Ron in Broadmoors hospital for the criminally insane. As a well-connected valued friend who had ghost-written older brother Charlies autobiography Mc Gibbon spoke to the twins on visits on the phone & corresponded regularly by post. He became such a trusted confidant he advised on media & personal matters negotiated TV rights to Ronnies funeral & his wife was so admired by the Kray family she was asked to speak on Reggies behalf in church. Drawing on that first-hand experience & revealing for the first time confidential details of letters to & from the twins Mc Gibbon describes their contrasting personalities: the infuriating mood swings & egomania of the hyper more aggressive Reggie & the gentle courtesy & generosity of his paranoid-schizophrenic twin who revealed in an exclusive interview the real reason behind one of the Krays legendary murders
- & personal memories he had never shared with anyone but family. Mc Gibbon a former national newspaper journalist who ghost-wrote Barbara Windsors best-selling autobiography All of Me" has written a pacy narrative coloured with a cast of supporting characters
- from the Yorkshire Ripper TV stars & Page Three Girls to gangland hierarchy & convicted criminals the twins befriended in prison. With sensational revelations that should guarantee newspaper serialisation it is an enthralling & compelling read that describes for the first time the bizarre lives the twins led after an Old Bailey judge jailed them in 1969 saying that society had earned a rest from their activities. It is a genuine inside story of the countrys most infamous killers whose terrifying violence shocked the nation & made them underworld legends."