Product Description

Who was the real Reg Kray? Who was the man lost beneath the layers of attitude and opinion, exaggeration and distortion? Why was he destined to spend so much of his life behind bars? His second wife Roberta writes about the Reg she knew, how he became such a vilified figure and what he thought about his past and his strange fame. Drawing on official documents, Reg's correspondence and their own conversations over the years, Roberta Kray sheds light on Reg's personality, his conflict with his brother Ron and his first tragic marriage. She also details the development of her own marriage from her first meeting with Reg in 1996 to his death in October 2000. This book offers a portrait of the real man behind the myth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352115 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

About the Author
Roberta Kray ran her own media research company for ten years. She is now a full time writer.

Customer Reviews

a real man
Roberta Kray writes a touching biography of the man behind the public persona. You get a real feeling for who he really was, without the glitz and glamour of being one of the worlds most notorious gangsters. He was a real, breathing feeling man who suffered the same trials and tribulations of us all. The book illustrates he was not always the hard man. A heart rending story.

Roberta adds depth to the Reggie Kray we thought we knew
This is certainly no bland biography. Not even close.

Roberta Kray tells the world about the Reg Kray she met, married and stayed with until his last breath. Any student of sixties gangland history needs to read this book, as instead of the two-dimensional TV image of a gangster Roberta leaves the reader knowing of a complete,human and complex person. In that respect there can be no better tribute to her late husband.

No punches are pulled whatsoever. Where Roberta considers other major crime faces to have acted dishonourably, she tells it as she sees it. The bisexuality Reg eventually admitted to is dealt with in a sensible and relevant way, without any bitterness or repackaging. The East End days are sensibly left to other authors and accounts as this isn't what her book concerns.

The author has produced a mature and intimately detailed account of her time with Reg which is neither over-sentimental or awestruck; and is therefore an excellent compliment to the many other books written about the Kray legend.

A Different Light
This book certainly puts a different light on the man Reg Kray. It shows him as a man, a human being. How sad that the society we live in and prison authorities couldn’t see passed their own hang ups and give this man what he should have had years ago, Freedom.
I found the book so real and at times so raw. It tells the truth about Reg Kray, what he was really like and what he hoped to achieve. In his hopes and dreams he wanted nothing but to do his time and live the rest of his life in peace with his wife Roberta.
In reality he was a political prison