As a gun-wielding bank robber Noel Razor Smith was top of the criminal tree enjoying the excitement & benefits of a dangerous & adrenalin-filled career. But hed also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison an environment where respect & basic survival were guaranteed only to those prepared to use the most brutal violence. In his new book Smith takes the story on from his highly acclaimed memoir A Few Kind Words & a Loaded Gun" & describes how he came to realize that the game wasnt worth the candle. In his mid-forties he applied to enter Grendon then the only prison in Britain offering intense therapeutic treatment to hardened criminals. He went from a brutal high-security prison HMP Whitemoor to an institution where he was encouraged to investigate just why his life had been given over to violence & crime. Smith paints an unforgettable portrait of the hardened & severely damaged inmates of Grendon many of them guilty of famous crimes & their attempts to turn round their lives. & in particular his own arduous five-year journey to re-enter society as a straight citizen."