Superbly written... darkly exhilarating... a sort of roller-coaster chamber of horrors' Guardian
What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed Among the Thugs is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.
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ReviewsBuford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy,The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone,Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange
