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A review by yaminagabe
Sorted by Kate Kray
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
SORTED: RONNIE KRAY (1997) by Kate Kray
An autobiography of Britain's one the most notorious gangster ever lived.
Ronnie Kray was settled in Broadmoor that imprisoned criminally-insane individual. He and his wife, Katie Kray has a peculiar relationship of marriage for 3 consecutive years and ended with a divorce before his death on 1995.
But it wasn't about two couples being inloved in an ungodly rendezvous and Kate's visiting a prisoner. Before he died, Ronald Kray speaks about his deathbed secrets during his lifetime career, killing, money laundering and drug dealing for ages. Including his homosexual affairs towards a member of political party and his fixation about young black kid during his imprisonment. Additionally the assassination of George Cornell that mystified police authorities for decades without tracing the 9mm gun as the murder weapon.
All I could say, I could not agree how Mrs. Kray tolerated his husband debauchery and even becoming an accomplice that running some few errands under his order. I was surprised that she never gotten herself into prison.
But without her engagement with this criminal, things were clearly dragged into the limelight. I don't know if some of the passages where being confirmed as legitimate and her claims regarding with her associates with Ronald Kray's fellow convicts. Some chapter are a bit inconceivable and a bit enigmatic.
It was too tense when Ronald Kray threaten to 'erased' Kate Kray, if she did something funny like separation when ironically, he is the first person to encouraged her signing the papers of divorce.
I couldn't put down the book for a reason. The choice of words are simple and everyone could possibly comprehend what the story implies. It was delivered well, even a 19 year old without a violation record could understand the message. Although, it is still unbelievable for me that such transgressions like murdering people could be compared to a simple livelihood of selling kwek-kwek and kikyam at the sidewalk.
How could Kate Kray indulged those blood money? How could she had lived for all those death-threats and harassment from Ron's adversary? I have a lot of questions from the book. I wanna contact Mrs. Kate Kray for some reason. But I don't know if she was still alived. I hope she was doing well, as well as the relatives of those fugitives and prisoners.
Even those people were blood-stained criminals, I simply put my sympathy out of the box. They were humans after all.
Additionally, the neurosurgical study of Oxford University peak my interest. I wonder what have they've discovered of Ron's 2lbs 8oz brain. Is it truly possible that the grey matter cells of the brain are capable of releasing certain chemicals that drove this notorious people to commit immoral behavior and crimes?