Gangster's Guide to God

John Pridmore searched for happiness in money, power, drugs and sex and found none. In this book he demolishes these worldly illusions and presents his truth. Pridmore was a vicious and dangerous gangster of London’s East End. He left his former life on a quest for truth and found it in God. In Gangster’s Guide to God, Pridmore speaks bluntly about the deception of the world he was in and openly of his journey and the foundations of his new life. John Pridmore is the author of best-selling life story From Gangland to Promised Land and over the last ten years has given inspiring lifechanging talks in Europe and America to over 4 million people

John Pridmore searched for happiness in money, power, drugs and sex and found none. In this book he demolishes these worldly illusions and presents his truth. Pridmore was a vicious and dangerous gangster of London’s East End. He left his former life on a quest for truth and found it in God. In Gangster’s Guide to God, Pridmore speaks bluntly about the deception of the world he was in and openly of his journey and the foundations of his new life. John Pridmore is the author of best-selling life story From Gangland to Promised Land and over the last ten years has given inspiring lifechanging talks in Europe and America to over 4 million people

Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. He’d left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capital’s criminal underworld. Thanks to drug dealing and racketeering he lived the classic gangster life of loads of cash, women, sports cars, designer clothes and a penthouse flat. Violence became a way of life, with his jackets tailored to hold his machete, knuckledusters and CS gas. One night he beat up a guy outside a nightclub, fleeing the scene thinking he’d killed the man. Thankfully the victim survived but John finally had to confront the reality of the life he was leading and something extraordinary happened….