Grafters
ISBN-13: 9781903854280
Contributor(s): Colin Blaney
Subject: True Crime
Publisher Imprint: Milo Books
Publication Date: 01-07-2004
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£7.99
About the book
Colin Blaney was a grafter, a wired-up, beat-down, real-life version of Kerouac's Dean Moriarty. As a child he burgled warehouses and factories; as a youth he joined the bootboys of Manchester United's Red Army; and as an adult he learned to dip' with the Scouse pickpocket gangs, to sell drugs to Rastas in Moss Side shebeens, to sneak-thieve from tills and jewellery stores with his mad Collyhurst crew. But Europe offered the greatest lure. Through a connection at a travel agent he started buying interrail tickets, which opened up whole new avenues of fun and mayhem.'