Blades and Broken Lives: Conversations Around Knife Crime

By Jack W Gregory

Knife crime isn't just a headline.
It's a wound running through families, estates, classrooms, hospitals - and the people who survive what the blade leaves behind.

In this raw and unflinching book, Jack W. Gregory - former criminal, homeless addict, survivor of multiple stabbings and shootings, and now an accidental journalist - steps into the stories Britain too often buries.
With the honesty of a man who has bled on the same pavements, Jack gathers voices from survivors, former offenders, parents, medics, teachers, youth workers, and those still fighting to reclaim their lives from violence.

These are testimonies carved from lived experience - stories told in quiet rooms, busy hospitals, police stations, estates, kitchens, and corners where hope and danger meet.
They reveal the reality behind Britain's knife epidemic: the fear, the trauma, the grief, the regret, the resilience, and the human cost hidden behind every statistic.

Part true crime.
Part social investigation.
Part deeply personal reckoning.

This is not a book about weapons.
It's a book about wounds - and the people strong enough to tell the truth about them.

Brutal. Honest. Necessary.
These are the stories Britain needs to hear before one more life is lost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G438S63H
• ISBN13: 9798276162584
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"