Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die |
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Stephen Richards
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Pages: 288 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1844544729
Pub: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Pub date: 2007-08-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87053
Reader Reviews:
Terrible! (2/2 people found this helpful)
These reviews do not have anything to do with this rubbish book! They are very very misleading! AVOID!!!
two of the hardest in the country (7/9 people found this helpful)
For anyone having read the book `Viv Graham and Lee Duffy's Parallel Lives', then you will know of how Lee Duffy seemed to reach out from the grave to those that mocked him. There is something uncanny about how so many people intertwined in Duffy's life met a sudden and violent end to their life. Even the woman of the man that killed Duffy hung herself!
The Parallel Lives book held nothing back, a great shame that it is no longer available. However, this book is just as good and covers two of the hardest men in the country, they may not have been the cleverest of men but they were as hard as rock.
Two protagonists and sworn enemies always just missing each other, always just within killing distance of each other but not quite aware of each other, how enthralling.
Revs off the scale with shear, bloody-minded violence! (15/17 people found this helpful)
Regional colloquialisms (informal speech) are used in many books, this one is no different, and yet they are universally understood. Alfred Hitchcock once said, "If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on." The author, Stephen Richards, does infer some intelligence of the reader by not having to literally explain well known terms that are bandied about in newspapers, on TV and generally mimicked around the world. I mean, some people can't even spell the names of cities. Some will even spell Liverpool like so: Liverepool. Now what does that tell you of their intelligence?
That said, this is a story that will stand the test of time and can be understood worldwide for what happens to two people at odds with themselves, others and each other. Who wouldn't want to see two giant-sized men knock seven bells out of each other, and yet what we long for never happens. All sorts of violent interludes dispatch Viv Graham and Lee Duffy in different directions from each other, and yet they and their lives are intertwined like mature ivy is on a house end. I won't spoil it for you, as it is just warming up before it revs off the scale with shear, bloody-minded violence!
This is the dog's - no bull!!!! (25/27 people found this helpful)
Really hits the parts other gangster books don't reach. Another book by top gangster author Richards puts him firmly on the map to tell it as it is. You can be assured that what you read is the dog's, with no bull! This book delivers in true gangster style. This is a gutsy book with plenty of the red stuff to keep you enthralled.
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