Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life.
King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five,
when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to
be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a
year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the
years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at
fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class
apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army on
the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling
Rifleman will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor
Gregg's engaging, honest and warm voice.