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title: "Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor"
price: "$68"
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# Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor

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Buy Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor by Yates, Lew, O'Mahoney, Bernard (ISBN: 9781845963521) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Brilliant book. - Great book about a genuine hard man who tells it as it is. A very honest account of his life and puts a lot of other people's books to shame for lies they told. Roy Shaw and Lenny McLean both lied in their books and Lew tells you the truth which is unbelievable. I've read in excess of 20 biographies of British hard men and gangsters and I can tell you that Lew Yates book is the best. Buy it now.
Review: Interesting - Good read

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 502,877 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 180 in Boxer Biographies 311 in Boxing (Books) 880 in Organised Crime Biographies |
| Customer reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (465) |
| Dimensions  | 12.7 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 1845963520 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1845963521 |
| Item weight  | 199 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 272 pages |
| Publication date  | 8 Jan. 2009 |
| Publisher  | Mainstream Publishing |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant book.
*by J***N on 12 February 2017*

Great book about a genuine hard man who tells it as it is. A very honest account of his life and puts a lot of other people's books to shame for lies they told. Roy Shaw and Lenny McLean both lied in their books and Lew tells you the truth which is unbelievable. I've read in excess of 20 biographies of British hard men and gangsters and I can tell you that Lew Yates book is the best. Buy it now.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting
*by J***S on 21 June 2025*

Good read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LOOKING BACK
*by K***S on 15 June 2020*

This book is very well written for someone who is not a writer but there are far too many names mentioned (and for someone who is terrible at remembering names this is not good ) however this is fine as it is not necessary to remember hardly any of them. Wild Thing is not the sort of book I would normally read in fact it is very far from it but I am very interested in the people that live around me and when I found out that Lew had written book about his life in boxing I had to read it although I did not know him very well then he was very much a loner spending his days in the gym and l would quite often say hello when he was out the back helping a young person train (as we only lived two doors away) but with this not being my subject I enjoyed the book very much well done lew.

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