SHOOTING THE MOB (Brian Anderson)

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 *City of God* meets *The Long Good Friday* — but this time, the camera is real, the danger is real, and the people aren’t actors.

I grew up in Glasgow’s East End, where gangs, violence, and early graves were part of the landscape. Knives were common. Prison was expected. Funerals were frequent. I could have gone the same way — many I grew up with did.

Instead, I picked up a camera.

That decision took me from schemes and street battles to the very heart of Britain’s criminal underworld — face to face with gangsters, hitmen, armed robbers, and legends who shaped decades of organised crime. Men who pulled guns on me. Men who whispered death threats down the phone. Men who laughed with me one moment and casually spoke about murder the next.

This is not a glamorisation. It’s **social history at street level** — told by the man standing directly in front of it, lens raised, heart racing.

Over three decades as a photojournalist, I documented some of the biggest crime stories in British history. I sat in cars with London’s Godfather in the back seat. I drank tea while guns were pointed at my head. I was threatened, tested, and warned — sometimes politely, sometimes not. I learned when to joke, when to shut up, and when to walk away alive.

There is fear in these pages.
There is violence.
There is absurd, pitch-black humour.

And there is truth — the kind you only get when you’re trusted just enough not to be killed.

*Shooting the Mob* has never been done before. Not from this angle. Not by someone who escaped the streets, yet kept returning — camera first — to document the men who never did.

This is the story of how a kid from Glasgow avoided a knife, chose a lens, and survived a world where one wrong photograph could have been his last.

This was my journey.
This was *Shooting the Mob*. 

SHOOTING THE MOB 

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