John Blake Publishing
He gravitated towards publishing and 'Blake Publishing' was founded in 1991 with Blake working in partnership with his brother, David Blake. Blake enlisted the help of his criminal contacts and set up his true crime series. His first number one bestseller was The Guv'nor with Lenny McLean and Peter Gerrard. This title was voted the best biography of 1998 After an acrimonious dissolution of the original partnership in March 2002, John Blake went solo. In August 2008 a book published by JBP, On Her Majesty's Service under the name of Ronald Evans, a former bodyguard of Sir Salman Rushdie, had a Declaration of Falsity made against it by a Judge in the High Court for the inclusion of 11 "serious falsehoods" defaming Mr Rushdie.
Blake lives beside the River Thames, near London, with his wife Diane.
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