Robin McGibbon first met Charlie Kray in 1975 when, as managing director of Everest Books, he published the first edition of this autobiography. Since then, he has worked as a sub-editor on the Daily Express and written, and co-written, ten books, including the autobiographies of Christopher Lambrianou, who got caught up in the Kray madness, Barbara Windsor and Eamonn Andrews. McGibbon, who has also produced a Talking Book of his conversations with all three Kray brothers, lives in Kent with his second wife, Sue.