The Firm

The Firm was Britain's most notorious gang headed by John "The Butcher" -- and Connor Devlin. For nearly four decades they ruled as gang lords over the London underworld.

Only now, nearly forty years on from the Firm's beginning, Mr -- sets the record straight. In his own words he tells the full story of his brutal career in crime and about his years as a retired investor.

The Firm is the only book that finally explodes the myths that have surrounded Connor Devlin and Johnny -- since the sixties.


The Firm is a fictional novel set in the style of an autobiography written by a gangster in 1996. I wanted to explore voice in this piece and decided in how to manipulate this form with essences of the epistolary. I reiterate this is entirely fictional, in this world Johnny -- and Connor Devlin are the fictional answer to the infamous Kray twins and that the idea behind this piece stemmed from Our Story with Fred Dinenge on a holiday nearly four years ago.

The Firm - I - You're A Product of Your Environment

I You’re a Product of Your Environment! ‘You’re a product of your environment!’ – something I’ll tell myself every day ‘till I drop dead. You see it’...

The Firm - Prologue - Interview

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW Joseph Arnold STAINES NAME: JOSEPH ARNOLD STAINES ADDRESS: AGE/ DATE OF BIRTH: 17 OCCUPATION: STUDENT DCS1996 We have agreed...

The Firm - II - The Wild One (1959 Version)

II The Wild One (1959 Version) Looking back, it was really the one incident that started it all off, on a freezing cold night outside a pub just off...