The Old Man And Me: The thrilling true crime biography of a son’s search to understand his gangster father

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The Hungarians took me to meet some more Hungarians in an Hungarian restaurant run by other Hungarians. He did but he had the remnants of the bullet in his chest which he was told would cause him problems if he did not have them removed.” This is the true crime story of Jason and his ‘Old Man’ Tony Spencer. The tale begins in 2001 in Amsterdam, where an incident involving The Old Man and a rival drug dealer leaving one dead and one seriously wounded. Tony is on the run and hiding in Europe. The business man turned drug smuggler was on the National Crime Squad’s radar being at the helm of a drug smuggling ring across Europe and beyond. As Jason rushes to Amsterdam to be with The Old Man, it gets him thinking about his life as well as his own. Once a prolific businessman making millions, losing it all again and again, and spending spells in jail who really is The Old Man, and how has his life spiralled to this? Jason wants to know his story, after hearing so many conflicting versions he decides to investigate - does he really know The Old Man? Did something happen in his childhood to influence the decisions he would make later as an adult? After his release this time, Anthony became involved in international drug smuggling, illegally importing hash and amphetamine.

The ironic thing was that he was quite clean-living – he didn’t take drugs and didn’t even smoke – he hated smoking. Jason – an ex-animator and graphic novelist, a psychology graduate and care worker- wanted to tell his dad’s incredible story so wrote the book. Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven) (US CD single liner notes). Hootie & the Blowfish. Atlantic Records. 1996. 2-87074. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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As Spencer’s life hangs in the balance, his son Jason arrives in Amsterdam. While he prays for a miraculous recovery, he ponders who his father really is. He has raced anxiously to be by his bedside and yet he is somebody he doesn’t know well at all. Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven) (US cassette single sleeve). Hootie & the Blowfish. Atlantic Records. 1996. A85515CD, 7567-85515-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) The book is very un-admiring of Brits and Britain. So much so that I felt a little lost at the beginning. I'm such an anglophile and this person didn't seem to like *anything* she was experiencing. At the same time I recognized the desperate loneliness of staying in a hotel as a foreigner with no roots, no resources in an unfamiliar city. The Introduction makes it plain that there was some sincere un-appreciation of post war London.

I’ve been told by people who met him that you would never have guessed about his criminality – he was charming, charismatic, handsome, polite – he lived a fascinating life full of contradictions and I wanted to put it on record and share it.” Dundy maintained a home in London until 1986, [12] and then moved to Los Angeles to be near her daughter. By then, Tracy was a costume designer; she is married to film director Jim McBride. [13] Dundy's autobiography, Life Itself!, was published in 2001. [14] In the same year, Kenneth Tynan's diaries, written in his last decade, were published. Their daughter had helped to have the book issued. It led to a two year split between the two women, until Dundy re-entered rehabilitation once more. [7] [15] Her 1964 novel, The Old Man and Me, was reissued in 2005 by the feminist publishing company Virago Press, and that same year, she wrote the introduction for Virago's reprint of Daphne du Maurier's 1932 novel I'll Never Be Young Again. [16] A tall emphatically sloshed young woman whose hair entirely hid the upper part of her face was lurching around clutching a large drawing-folder which kept jabbing everyone in the stomach. She lurched up to Bollie demanding to know when he was going to paint her. "You said you would. You know you did." The late and great Elaine Dundy is a very interesting woman, who lived near Book Soup and was a customer as well. Little did I know of her writing career till I read "The Dud Avocado" which is fantastic by the way. So her history is fascinating in that she was married to British theater critic great Kenneth Tynan and also wrote the first serious in depth biography on Elvis.Jason said: “That was considered very serious by the courts and the FBI were involved, along with the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad on one of their final cases before it was disbanded.