This book pulls no punches and is a brutally honest account of underworld life from someone who has experienced it first-hand.

The series was broadcast on Discovery's Quest channel in the UK in April 2014 (S1) and July 2015 (S2). By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. With unique access to ‘faces’ who have never spoken in front of cameras before, author and former member of the Essex Boys firm Bernard O’Mahoney takes us on a journey through crime culture that gained notoriety in the 60s and brings it right up to date with gripping and emotional tales of a modern day British gangland.

The likes of Gene Hackman, Mickey Rourke and Jaws actor Richard Kiel were all said to be in attendance. The West Ham firm was co-founded by Cass Pennant in the 1970s and garnered a sinister reputation for leaving a business card on the fans they attacked that read: “Congratulations, you’ve just met the ICF. In his book Wild Cats, he claimed the hooligans rocked up at Woodford Football Club after an ICF member was supposedly battered unconscious in the audience. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I wanted too get this as some of my family are in this book and I needed too read for myself about life back then for them and since this books release some years ago different things are shared or kept away and Danny who wrote the book has since passed away so I’m glad I’ve now got my copy and can read myself. Bill dragged this young man out, but unbeknown to anyone, ‘The Bomb’ set about this chap and gave him a proper hiding. Liverpool - Featuring interviews with Stephen "The Devil" French, Kevin Mooney, Nicola Regan, Graham "Boris" Boszomenyi, Brian Charrington Jnr.Roy Shaw, McLean, Williams, Carrington, Mickey Rourke and all the actors ran like scared rabbits to the club house, Woody’s, and locked themselves safely away. Another added:” I think you can safely remove Mickey Rourke from any band of hard men, he’s all Hollywood. Rich in colourful characters and chaotic, often violent events, the book charts robberies, dog-fights, rape, furious vendettas and the frequent brutalities of prison life.

Many episodes concentrate on cities around the UK: London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham.

One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy. And the story about McLean and the famous actors apparently running for their lives was recently speculated about on Youtube channel The Enquirer 1.