Publisher's Synopsis
In Street Fighting Man, former gangster and unlicensed boxer Jimmy Swords breaks his long silence to reveal the eventful story of his life as the head of the Quality Street Gang, the biggest and most feared crime syndicate in Britain. Amongst the many revelations, Swords comes clean on how: He chased the Krays henchman out of the city after they tried to take it over; He saved legendary footballer George Best from being tortured and killed after Best was kidnapped by a rival gang for sleeping with one of their wives; He was offered big money to break another leading Manchester United players legs; No street fighter was prepared to take him on, including Roy Pretty Boy Shaw, who turned down the chance to fight him for £55,000; He was implicated in the Stalker Affair, in which it was claimed top cop John Stalker had links to the gang, forcing Swords to hide out in Spain; and He came back to a city that was rife with drugs gangs battling it out and had to fight to regain his rightful place as 'king of the streets'. Street Fighting Man is a story of both violence and sadness, as Swords reflects upon how he was devastated by the death of two of his newborn children. It documents one mans remarkable rise from the slums and reveals how he took on the system and won.
