F**k The Ride

THE THIRD AND FINAL INSTALMENT FROM THE BESTSELLING GANGSTER

Dave Courtney was born and lives in South London. He has recorded with Tricky and took his own movie, Hell to Pay, to the Cannes Film Festival.

From debt-collecting to running doormen, Dave Courtney has been a legend in London criminal circles since the days of the Kray's. In this the thrilling third instalment of his autobiography Dave shares his stories of the last few years - the trials (both in court and out) the tribulations and the laughs. 
 
Having narrowly survived a near-fatel car crash, and spent months in a coma. Dave swears someone, somewhere is out to kill him. While he speculates about possible suspects and their motives, and the effect of the crash on his marriage and family, he also travels around the world with his film Hell To Pay, meets mafia in Sicily, does a whistlestop tour of New York and Las Vegas.

The Ride's Back On

DODGY DAVE IS BACK FOR THE NEXT WILD RIDE

In the number one-selling crime autobiography, 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, moving into the world of the media. This proved harder than he thought, as he details in his long awaited latest book, The Ride's Back On. 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 Dave going free (and the policeman in jail), nevertheless Dave's reputation needs defending. 
 
He defends it here in the best possible way: 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, plus getting caught in gang warfare. With Dave at the wheel, the ride's guaranteed to be a wild one.

Clubbed To Death

Raving Lunacy

A HUMOROUS ACCOUNT EXPLORING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN LONDON'S CLUBS AND CRIME

The larger-than-life villain is back with more underworld stories and pleny of "larfs"

Dave Courtney, whose autobiography, Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off, was a huge bestseller, reveals all from another hidden aspect of London's underworld. 
 
Notorious in London's criminal underworld, Dave is also a big name in the club and dance scene. Raving Lunacy is the story of this double life, and how one world spilled over into the other. From parties in prisons, sewers, railway arches and aircraft hangers, to legitimacy (Dave and his partner Terry Turbo won 1999's 'Best Large Promotions of the Year'); Raving Lunacy covers the ground that Stop the Ride left out, as Dave details what went on after the doors were shut tight. 
 
The clientele that came to the parties was, in Dave's words, 'the most colourful characters London has to offer'. Dave was, as ever, in the thick of it and saw and experienced the explosion, the fallout, the casualties and the successes. Told with characteristic humour and brazen honesty, Raving Lunacy reveals the darker side of the era known as the summer of love.

The Autobiography of Dave Courtney

Stop The Ride, I Want To Get Off

A THRILLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM ONE OF LONDON'S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS

One of the most feared men on the streets of London

Illuminating, brutal and funny - well worth passing the time with

Crime, gangsters, guns. Fast money, flashy women, big suits - what a buzz

Dave Courtney - the original behind Vinnie Jones's character in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - tells all in his no-holds-barred bestselling autobiography. 
 
From the streets of southeast London to bare-knuckle fights; from the funeral of Ronnie Kray to drug-deals turned sour in Holland - Dave Courtney's story is like no one else's.

Dave Courtney

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 colourful - and criminal - life. 
As you might expect, Dodgy Dave's ideas of what constitutes a hero and a villain is at times a little, well, dodgy. But Dave challenges our notions of what it is to be heroic in his usual candid and witty style.

Dave Courtney

Books by Dave Courtney

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