The Muscle

2013 | Biography

Neil Cummins grew up in Liverpool, England in an environment of hard knocks, bikies and the underworld surrounding his father's businesses as a nightclub owner. There came a time when Neil, who adored his father, started to realise the shady and seedy world of nightclubs and the business associates he looked up to as child were some of the worst and most dangerous criminals in the UK, some involved in drug importing, bikie gangs, robberies, murder and other major crimes . This story follows a young adult man of 19 who moves to Australia with his mother and slowly starts to follow in his father's life of the underworld and becomes the head doorman and bodyguard to one of Australia's most colourful characters, John Ibrahim the owner of some of Sydney's most popular nightclubs. The character based on the Underbelly series, The Golden Mile. It's not long before Neil becomes a close and trusted associate of the Ibrahim family. Becoming John's number one security guy he was better known as: The Muscle.

From a world of drugs, nightclubs, celebrities, fancy cars, to money and power, bikie gangs and stand over men, hits on peoples lives to drive by shootings , Neil's story is a tell all insight to how he lived it and survived it to walk away and live a normal life.

Neil Cummins (Author)