num_pages: 288
description: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy led parallel lives as pub and club enforcers, raging their gangland turf wars with a fierce frenzy of brutality and unremitting cruelty. This frank and astonishing underworld authority Stephen Richards is a riveting double portrait of two of the North East's most feared men whose bloody rivalry was cut short when they each met horrifically violent ends. With a frightening capacity for extreme violence, Tyneside protection hardman Viv struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, yet his benevolence to local charities and schemes to keep kids away from drugs and crime was well known. Teeside drugs enforcer Lee Duffy had half his foot shot off in an assassination attempt and his skull beaten with a crowbar, but his streetwise instinct was unmatched. With unprecedented access to friends, family, and associates, Stephen Richards dispels many of the myths surrounding these legendary figures.
language: English
title: Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die: a True Story, the Bloody Story of Britain's Deadliest Rivals
titlecomplete: Fight to the Death: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy - Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die: a True Story, the Bloody Story of Britain's Deadliest Rivals
genres: True Crime
ratings_count: 12
publisher: John Blake