Complete Story of The Essex Boys: Inception Hardcover – December 4, 2025

InceptionFrom inception came consequence. In the underworld, a word, a look, a slight, the most trivial act could spiral into a storm of violence when left to fester. This was where the line between right and wrong blurred to nothing, where survival counted for more than truth, and loyalty was as fragile as glass.In this second instalment of theComplete Story of the Essex Boys, founder member Bernard O’Mahoney reveals how Darren Nicholls, Jack Whomes, and Micky “the Pilot” Steele first crossed paths behind prison walls before being drawn into the orbit of Pat Tate, a man-mountain whose explosive temper and appetite for violence made him as unpredictable as he was dangerous.For the first time, O’Mahoney strips away the myths to expose the shocking truth:Jack Whomes, long seen as a simple mechanic, was in truth a career criminal who erupted almost overnight into a cold-blooded triple murderer.The bloody battles in and around Raquel’s nightclub, where O’Mahoney crushed rivals to maintain control.His involvement with the infamous Kray Twins, who’s carefully cultivated public persona was as false as Whomes’s.His fight to free Lisa and Michelle Taylor, who brutally murdered love rival Alison Shaughnessy in a frenzy of 54 stab wounds; his tempestuous affair with Michelle whose need to control bordered on madness and Lisa’s link to the Essex Boys.The truth about so-called Essex Boy Steve “Nipper” Ellis, probably the most incompetent hitman in gangland history and Carlton Leach, myth inflated, man deflated.First-hand accounts of life within the Essex Boys gang from girlfriends and those who worked in Tate’s seedy massage parlours, including the shocking revelation of Tate’s vile plot to have one of them raped and murdered.Shocking, brutal, and stripped of glamour, Inception lays bare the roots of betrayal, paranoia, and bloodshed that would ultimately define the Essex Boys.“Myth made them icons. Murder made them history.” Read more