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    The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery

    by John Knight, Peter Wilton, Pete Sawyer, Ronnie Knight ...
    On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash, worth £6 million then (£26 million in today's currency). The gang made no mistakes and left behind not a single clue.Det. Supt Peter Wilton was the man in charge of the investigation. He spent years ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

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    The story of the real-life robbery that inspired BBC drama ‘The Gold'

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    'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on SundayThe inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery.On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink's-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its ... Read more

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  • The Gold

    The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

    by Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner ...
    The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that ... Read more

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  • Killing Goldfinger

    The Secret, Bullet-Riddled Life and Death of Britain's Gangster Number One - As Featured in BBC Drama 'The Gold'

    by Wensley Clarkson ...
    KILLING GOLDFINGER charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld. During the late 1990s, Palmer was rated as rich as The Queen by the Sunday Times Rich List.Palmer earned his nickname Goldfinger after smelting (in his back garden) tens of millions of pounds worth of ... Read more

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  • The Great Train Robbery

    Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account

    by Nick Russell-Pavier, Stewart Richards ...
    Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath.In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the ... Read more

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  • The Last Gangster

    My Final Confession

    by Charlie Richardson ...
    Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.Notorious Charlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of the Richardson Gang and rival of the Krays, to cross him would result in brutal repercussions. Famously arrested on the day England won the World ... Read more

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  • Roy Shaw Unleashed - He's a one man killing machine. This is his story by those who know him best

    by Kate Kray, Roy Shaw ...
    When Kate Kray wrote" Pretty Boy, " she interviewed scores of people. Almost without exception, as she was leaving, they would say to her, "I'll tell you something about Roy--but don't tell him I told you..." These stories were too shocking and close to the bone to include without Roy's permission, and now that permission has been granted. "Roy Shaw Unleashed" is a collection of those stories, as ... Read more

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  • The Devil Shook My Hand - I've Been Shot, Stabbed and Accused of Murder. People Call Me Britain's Deadliest Bare-Knuckle Fighter. This is My Story

    by Mick Gluckstad ...
    Meet Micky Gluckstad. You'll like him. Bare-knuckle boxer, East End face, playboy and underworld 'corner merchant', Micky's conned money off the best of them - and he's got the scars to prove it. A happy-go-lucky conman who fleeced hundreds of thousands of pounds from the rich, the stupid, the crooked and the shameless, Micky's one of the nicest men you'll ever meet - unless you cross him. Then ... Read more

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  • Getting it Straight

    Villains Talking

    by Freddie Foreman, Tony Lambrianou ...
    As never before....Freddie Foreman (who had his own Sixties gang - which received Jack the Hat McVitie's body at the South end of the Blackwall Tunnel after the Kray murder) and Tony Lambrianou (a noted Kray henchman) in conversation about getting the facts straight, how they went straight - and who they straightened out.Set against the backdrop of the pub Freddie used to own - and where he was ... Read more

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  • The Barlinnie Story

    Riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell block riots, and been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson Snr and Walter Norval. ... Read more

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  • No One Likes Us, We Don't Care

    True Stories from Millwall, Britain's Most Notorious Football Holigans

    by Andrew Woods ...
    Meet the UK's most notorious football hooligans. Author Andrew Woods has come face-to-face with Millwall's most famous firm and now, for the first time, the Bushwackers reveal all about their bloodiest battles and fiercest rivalries -- in their own words. But among the camaraderie, the battles of wits with the police and the exhilarating toe-to-toe run-ins with the opposition, this book also ... Read more

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  • The Devil

    Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman

    by Graham Johnson ...
    Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you.Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through 'taxing' the richest and most powerful crimelords in the UK, he netted over £20 million.French was no ordinary criminal. ... Read more

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