Posh & Becks

"A couple of kids stealing grocery money" was Larry King's comment on Posh & David Beckham: Casey Kassem was similarly dismissive. What we've seen in this book is a long way from the truth. Morton narrates a perceptive and well-told story about the pair of outlaws. You'll find that David ran the show: Victoria, for the last year of her life couldn't even walk, due to the crippling effects of a bad car accident: she had to be carried around. Beckham had been driving along a dirt road at night, doing 70mph and ran through a barricade and off the road where a bridge was down. Pure recklessness on David's part--a recklessness and carelessness that cost Victoria Beckham the ability to walk, and cost the lives of many people, including Posh & Beck themselves. David was a skilled footballer--he rarely drove anything except his favored Mercedes--and car thief, but he didn't know when to take his foot off the gas. He liked fast cars and flashy, more mature women--the trappings of glamor. But the careful thought and planning that helped Dillinger and others was lacking--Morton describes how the couple would drive into Manchester in their Mercedes, wearing flashy clothes, and walk about casing the different stores for possible robbery: again and again, this aroused suspicions--it was if they wanted to call attention to themselves. They robbed some banks--the maximum haul that I recall from the book was under $4000 (about half that ammount when you consider that these are English Pounds) but spent much more time robbing grocery stores for $40 or so, and often grabbing for loose change. The book describes how David Beckham stole a Ford Cortina, drove it for a distance, and abandoned it for another Ford Cortina, but switched the license plate to the newly-stolen vehicle: when suspicions were aroused, the license plate quickly was traced to the original stolen car. The couple also liked taking pictures of themselves, and the pictures sometimes showed the license plates of the car they were driving--not smart! Sir Alex Ferguson, the legendary Man U. manager, traded David to the U.S.A.'s Los Angeles Galaxy football team. His posse ambushed Victoria and David in London, with Ferguson repeatedly shooting his mouth out at Victoria calling her a "two-bit hussie." The aftermath did nobody credit: the Beckham family wanted all the guns, which were all stolen or (rarely) bought with stolen money. Ferguson wanted to retire David's number but kept the old jerseys to auction off. Los Angeles county sheriff Jordan, part of Ferguson's ambush team, may have grabbed a suitcase full of money for himself: he wanted the bullet-pierced death car to auction off. The car's owner (it was, of course, stolen) wanted it, and in a court case a federal judge returned it to the owner, who rented it out to what might best be termed an "exhibitionist" who charged admission for people to see it. The title of the book comes from both of their nicknames. There are occasional errors--s

This is a great easy read. You won't believe the amount of Harassment That Victoria Beckham, endured, she is so young and talented. The book is about her rise to fame and marriage etc. Nothing would have stopped her career and her Millions. There are some shocking photos in this book but you get a good idea of who she really is.