Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.

Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged up for well over 30 years; how Dave Courtney misses the violent world of the doors; how ex-football hooligan Mickey Francis ran most of Manchester's doors back in the '80s; and how an ex-Foreign Legion bodyguard spent over a week cooped up in a bleak warehouse guarding Iraqi votes in central Baghdad.

By turns funny, sad and shocking, these candid accounts were written exclusively for this publication by individuals who have spent much of their working lives in what is a volatile, violent and frequently unpredictable industry.

Compiled by former bodyguard, ex-mercenary and well-known nightclub bouncer Robin Barratt, Bouncers and Bodyguards is an exposé of an infamous twilight world about which rumours have often circulated but the truth has never really been uncovered - until now.

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Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.

Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged up for well over 30 years; how Dave Courtney misses the violent world of the doors; how ex-football hooligan Mickey Francis ran most of Manchester's doors back in the '80s; and how an ex-Foreign Legion bodyguard spent over a week cooped up in a bleak warehouse guarding Iraqi votes in central Baghdad.

By turns funny, sad and shocking, these candid accounts were written exclusively for this publication by individuals who have spent much of their working lives in what is a volatile, violent and frequently unpredictable industry.

Compiled by former bodyguard, ex-mercenary and well-known nightclub bouncer Robin Barratt, Bouncers and Bodyguards is an exposé of an infamous twilight world about which rumours have often circulated but the truth has never really been uncovered - until now.

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Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

by Robin Barratt
Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

Bouncers and Bodyguards: Tales from a Twilight World

by Robin Barratt

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Overview

Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.

Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged up for well over 30 years; how Dave Courtney misses the violent world of the doors; how ex-football hooligan Mickey Francis ran most of Manchester's doors back in the '80s; and how an ex-Foreign Legion bodyguard spent over a week cooped up in a bleak warehouse guarding Iraqi votes in central Baghdad.

By turns funny, sad and shocking, these candid accounts were written exclusively for this publication by individuals who have spent much of their working lives in what is a volatile, violent and frequently unpredictable industry.

Compiled by former bodyguard, ex-mercenary and well-known nightclub bouncer Robin Barratt, Bouncers and Bodyguards is an exposé of an infamous twilight world about which rumours have often circulated but the truth has never really been uncovered - until now.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845968298
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 03/18/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Robin Barratt is the president of the British Bodyguard Association, editor and publisher of The Bodyguard magazine and the author of several books on the nightclub security industry.

Table of Contents

Author's Note 7

Introduction - Diamonds and Cunts 9

1 Back in the Early '70s Charlie Bronson 17

2 Mickey Francis - The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Loc19 Mickey Francis 21

3 Dave Courtney Talking ... Dave Courtney 35

4 Too Big to Be a Glass Collector Scott Taylor 43

5 Charlie Bronson, Doing the Doors and Me Stu Cheshire 51

6 Showdown at Hampton Court and Kilroy-Silk Gives Us the Bird Paul Knight 59

7 Doing the Door Steve Wraith 85

8 Bodyguard Training in the Russian Federation Robin Barratt 107

9 A Life on the Doors Bob Etchells 119

10 Letter from Iraq Alex Powell 141

11 An Extraordinary Tale About a Covert Security Operation and a Snooping Russian Babushka Inna Zabrodskaya 159

12 So, Who Wants to Be a Bouncer? Andy Walker 169

13 Celebrity Protection John Badly 179

14 Journey to Baghdad - 2004 Anonymous 189

15 Working at Wimbledon - What a Farce! Anonymous 197

16 What the Bloody Hell Am I Doing Here? Damien Buckwell 205

17 Doing the Doors - A Gentleman's Game Sandy Sanderson 219

18 From Landlord to Trainer of Bodyguards Molly Prince 231

19 Key Points to Being a Good Bodyguard Marc Sand 241

20 Speaking of Virgins ... James Shortt 247

21 A New Girl on the Door Anonymous 255

22 A True Story of Corporate Crime in the Russian Federation Robin Barratt 263

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