THE SOHO DON Gangland's Greatest Untold Story.

Hardback, 1st edn. The story of a shy south London boy from a respectable family who became a shadowy but powerful figure in the Soho, Mayfair and Brighton underworlds. Smartly dressed and well spoken, Billy Howard dominated the London crime scene for 30yrs, a reign punctuated only by short stays in prison. The Krays said he feared no one and that Howard was the one man they truly respected. A gripping account of Howard's violent life, exposing the links between the vicious gangland bosses, the police, the celebrity hothouses of Mayfair clubs, high-class prostitution and international gambling. It portrays his slide from power and, finally, his pathetic death in 1984. Illus., Names Glossary and Terms Glossary. 223pp. 8vo. h/back. As New in dw. Appears unread.