The Devil Shook My Hand - I've Been Shot, Stabbed and Accused of Murder. People Call Me Britain's Deadliest Bare-Knuckle Fighter. This is My Story

Mick Gluckstad

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782190493
• Year: 2012

Meet Micky Gluckstad. You'll like him. Bare-knuckle boxer, East End face, playboy and underworld 'corner merchant', Micky's conned money off the best of them - and he's got the scars to prove it. A happy-go-lucky conman who fleeced hundreds of thousands of pounds from the rich, the stupid, the crooked and the shameless, Micky's one of the nicest men you'll ever meet - unless you cross him. Then beware. There are properly hard men and there is Micky Gluckstad. Whether on the cobbles or in the ring, Micky beat them all. Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw, Donny 'The Bull' Adams and even Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor himself, fell before Micky's onslaught. He never started a fight, but he never walked away from one either and he hated bullies and braggarts. Reggie Kray said Micky could have been one of the boxing greats, but he never trained and fought for kicks and cash. Despite his incredible story, you won't catch him boasting about his exploits or cashing in as a rent-a-villain. Repeatedly accused of murder but never charged, shot, stabbed and glassed, beaten by the police and locked up in juvenile detention, borstal and prison, he came back laughing from everything the world threw at him.For the first time, Micky tells his explosive story - from his early days in the East End to the millionaire lifestyle his criminal activities afforded him. Micky earned, enjoyed and spent more than a million quid - but never regretted a single day.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Epigraph
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: An east end childhood
• Chapter 2: Juvenile Detention
• Chapter 3: If my aunt had balls, She’d be my uncle
• Chapter 4: Borstal Boy
• Chapter 5: On the road with the gypsies
• Chapter 6: The Wrong Place at the wrong time
• Chapter 7: Getting ugly with the Pretty Boy
• Chapter 8: Shoot-out at the two puddings
• Chapter 9: The Great Wanstead Cow Con
• Chapter 10: King of the Gypsies
• Chapter 11: Thames Tragedy
• Chapter 12: Blood Feud
• Chapter 13: Tying The Knot Tight
• Chapter 14: Teaching the guv’nor a lesson
• Chapter 15: Boxing Matilda
• Chapter 16: Dog Days
• Chapter 17: Breaking and entering
• Chapter 18: The Con is back on
• Chapter 19: Ducking and diving
• Epilogue
• Plates
• Copyright Page