A few kind words and a loaded gun : the autobiography of a career criminal

A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted felon Noel 'Razor' Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal, it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly brutalized young offenders and a frank, unsentimental acknowledgement of the thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating and frightening by turns, it also reveals Razor Smith to be a remarkably talented writer. Having survived borstal - in reality gladiator school for young criminals - Noel 'Razor' Smith went on to a life of violent crime. Over the years, his addiction to violence diminished, but the thrill of his crimes never went away. This is his story of a life spent, mainly, doing time