Gangs of the Big Smoke (Paperback)

A story of an elderly Englishman and a young Italian who team up to conduct organised crime in London in 1901.

The Italians make alliances with the Scottish, the Welsh, and the Germans. This is all overseen by the elderly Englishman.

They extort money from bookmakers. They have protection rackets, corrupt raffle ticketing, they commit robbery. They have pimps and prostitutes. Also counterfeiting and debt collection.