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Book Synopsis‘Next Time, Bring a Bigger Knife’ is an engaging, highly entertaining and often very funny memoir in which the writer takes us from his inner-city poverty in England to qualifying as a solicitor in the law before a chance encounter leads to his downfall involving sex and drugs. Poverty, followed by boarding-school, propels John on adventures at Oxford in the 1970s followed by a career in family law. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman leads to a decade of adventurous and unusual sexual encounters fuelled by every drug available. Multiple sexual partners, bondage and sex toys accompany drug dealers with knives, baseball bats and guns before John spends time in rehab and prison. He then organises events throughout the world before retiring to South Africa, where adventure continues to find him.
Table of ContentsPrologue 9 Introduction 11 1. 1996 – Chester 15 2. 1950s – Liverpool – first memories 20 3. 1950s and 1960s – Liverpool and Jesuits 28 4. 1966–1971 – Ratcliffe College Leicester 39 5. 1996 – Chester Crown Court – above ground 46 6. 1972–1975 – Teddy Hall 53 7. 1974–1975 – Oxford 69 8. 1996 – Chester – below ground 87 9. 1976–1978 – Liverpool – articles 91 10. 1978 – Warrington 103 11. Family matters 107 12. 1980s – The Law – unbelievable sometimes 110 13. Warrington – the calm before the storm 117 14. 1980 – Warrington and cases 127 15. 1993 – The unexpected 136 16. 1994 – The mayonnaise test 139 17. 1996 – Walton prison 144 18. 1982 – Warrington – the unusual 155 19. Getting bored 164 20. 1988 – The atom bomb 167 21. A super butler 180 22. Virgin rail and a sex shop 185 23. Tri-sexual 196 24. Cocaine, acid, and chains 203 25. Addiction 215 26. The night people 220 27. The big deal with the Mancunium 231 28. 1996 – Rehab 240 29. 1996–1997 – Kirkham Preston 266 30. 1997 – Kirkham 277 31. 1997 – Standing up 292 32. 1998 – Public relations 297 33. 2001 – Champagne and caviar 302 34. 1999 – International event management consultant 311 35. The CEO 325 36. 2005 – Liverpool to Cape Town 328 37. 2005 – Red Cross hospital 345 38. 2006 – The orphanage 350 39. 2006 – McGregor 355 40. 2009 – Relationships 378 Epilogue: 2013–2022 – Greyton 390
