British organized-crime/gangster fiction

Recommend me something in the vein of Layer Cake, if not better.

Anyone?

Nope, sorry.

Shit, there's some video out of a low-rent Brit assassin who works for his father's crime business, and the assassin's life is spent doing too many drugs and starts to unravel, and he comes into conflict with his father after seeing real people having real lives for once.  Shit, that was a fairly good Layer C4ke type of video.  Does anyone recognize the plot?

Go rent the movies "snatch" and "lock stock and two smoking barrels". Cant get any more British crime from any other film.

>>Go rent the movies "snatch" and "lock stock and two smoking barrels". Cant get any more British crime from any other film.

Done that, and I was thinking more of books, not films.

(Also, what about The Long Good Friday?)

I hear Guy Ritchie's flicks aren't as good as some other Brit  gangster-fiction out there.

No one here has knowledge of good organized crime novels set in England?

Jack London?

No others?

Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And Id like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air

In west philadelfia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said were up in no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air

I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air

I said British gansters, not African-American...

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