Has there ever been a book we can believe?

Following on from Hack's skepticism about Count Bartelli's book:

"Bartelli's book, which was the world as he would want us to view it,"

a comment with which I wholeheartedly agree, I'm trying to think of any wrestling book that we feel we can actually trust.

Whether you want to call it marketing or mind manipulation, these guys were ahead of their time in creating stories that the fans gobbled up. They were masters of such manipulation on the mat; and seem to have been equally adept on paper.

At worst, these books, in no particular order:

- omit

- invent

- twist

- thread in truths to give the impression all is true (eg Shakespeare's "Henry VIII")

The Mick McManus Wrestling Book takes the biscuit for absurdity; the following year The Who's Who of Wrestling unjustifiably assumed almost Burke's Peerage status. In more recent times, I have read many comments that Adrian Street's writing is heavily weighted in his own favour. Even dear dear Judo Alf carried to his grave the myth that there was ongoing bad blood between himself and the Iron Man (loved by all "the lads.")

Kendo Nagasaki's book fascinates me. Certainly it feeds me interesting snippets that I had not been aware of. But my overwhelming impression in reading it was of the omissions, and few comments about wrestlers who worked hard to put him over in the course of twenty years. Stalwart Tibor doesn't get a mention.

Nagasaki spent more than twenty years manipulating or, at the very least in my own case, confusing fans with tales of mysticism, healing and the rest. Then he whipped his mask off, published his book and the mysteriously hypnotic faith healer, not to mention paradoxical villain of the ring, turned overnight into a "lovely bloke." I have noted his ongoing skills at managing fans' adulation with his very generous accessibility over recent years, but the end result is in large measure to cement his book as gospel. He is very very successful judging by many many loving comments on here, and once again I risk being the minority of One.

(For my own small part, this is one reason I keep out of it. I retain the unseduced integrity of my complete objectivity in his regard.)

So I am wondering whether anyone feels they have read a legit book by one of our UK pro wrestlers?

I set out from the standpoint that this is impossible due to the strength of the omerta that prevents "the lads" revealing much at all about each other, or the business.

But I'll be interested to read others' opinions.