<p>This autobiography has made London's most infamous celebrity gangster - and the inspiration for the character Big Chris, played by Vinny Jones, in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - an international star. Read about Dave Courtney's shady and amoral past, his time in jail, the violent encounters that put him there, and why he has decided it's time to get out of the crime business. Meet machete-wielding Chinese waiters, unlicensed boxing promoters and debt collectors. See Dave bitten, beaten, stabbed and shot; and learn that prison didn't do anything except to make him determined always to be better at not getting caught.</p>

Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

COURTNEY, Dave

Arts & Literature

Virgin Pub

Dave Courtney, 'one of the most feared men on the streets of London' reveals the characters, both fictional and all too real, that have most influenced his colorful - and once criminal - life, including Ned Kelly, Al Capone, Pablo Escobar and John Gotti.

Dave Courtney's Heroes & Villains

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off: The Autobiography of Dave Courtney

Virgin Hardbacks

Raving lunacy: clubbed to death - adventures on the rave scene

Virgin

In "Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off", Dave Courtney wrote about his life of crime and how he had decided to put that all behind him, and move into the world of the media. This proved harder that he thought, as he details in this book. For Dave faces a fierce test as he is accused by a corrupt policeman of being a grass, and although the court case ends up with the Dave going free, (and the policeman in jail), nevertheless Dave's reputation needs defending. So he defends it here - telling the world about what really goes on, both in court (dressed as a jester, and punching out the corrupt officer, for starters) and out of it - gunfights in Tenerife, porn films in LA, taking his own movie, "Hell to Pay", to the Cannes film festival, and getting caught in gang warfare.

The Ride's Back on

Jim Dawkins left home at the age of sixteen to pursue his dream of joining the army, and subsequently served with the Royal Green Jackets, including tours of Canada and Northern Ireland. During that time he learned many important lessons that would serve him well in the future, but would, at the same time, lead to insufferable stress as he constantly battled with his conscience and struggled to swim against the tide. Once back in Civvy Street, and with a new house and a baby to support, Jim decided to join the Prison Service. Jim tells his story, which, although peppered with humorous anecdotes of often lager-induced incidents from both his army and prison days, bears witness to the stark reality of what actually goes on behind prison doors, and exposes both the glaring flaws in the prison system and the atrocities perpetrated in the name of justice, which ultimately forced his decision to leave the Prison Service seven years later.

The Loose Screw: The Shocking Truth About Our Prison System

Dawkins, Jim

Bronson, Charlie

Memoirs

Apex Pub Ltd

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