The author joined the Coldstream Guards from school, became an all-forces middleweight champion boxer, and married at eighteen. He became involved in organised crime at the age of twenty-one, served two lengthy sentences in maximum security prisons. He spent many hours listening to category ‘A' criminals, their stories and downfalls. After release, he became a successful director of a demolition company and started writing about his life experiences.
In 1947 Birmingham, Kazreen Miah is born into a world of hardship and racial tension, the daughter of a Pakistani immigrant and a white English mother who defied her family for love. Growing up in a crowded, impoverished home, Kazreen faces bullying and prejudice.
