The Curse of Brink's-Mat: 25 Years of Murder & Mayhem: The Inside Story of the Twentieth Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery: Twenty-five Years of ... 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery - Brossura

Clarkson, Wensley

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9781849163057: The Curse of Brink's-Mat: 25 Years of Murder & Mayhem: The Inside Story of the Twentieth Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery: Twenty-five Years of ... 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery

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ISBN 10: 1849163057 ISBN 13: 9781849163057

Casa editrice: Quercus, 2012

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The definitive story of Britain’s most legendary crime and its legacy from one of the world’s top true crime authors

The Brink’s-Mat raid was the robbery of the century, the stuff of legends in the criminal underworld. On November 26, 1983, a group of robbers burst into the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport, expecting to find a decent-sized haul of cash ? but instead they stumbled upon nearly seven thousand gold bars worth �28 million. More than twenty-five years later, �20 million of bullion remains unrecovered, and it is thought that most people in possession of gold jewelry made in the UK after 1983 are wearing Brink’s-Mat. Wensley Clarkson is the leading expert on the crime. In addition to having met and interviewed many of its most important figures on both sides of the law, he has secured the co-operation of several members of the original gang to provide unprecedented insight into what happened. This is the definitive account, not just of the robbery itself but of its aftermath, its legacy in modern crime, and the infamous ?curse” that has seen so many of those associated with the gold meet a violent end.

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Recensione:

'This is at once a very readable and extremely chilling account of a new generation of gangsters ... Real life, worse than any novel' Books Monthly. (Books Monthly)

'True crime doesn't get any better, or indeed truer than this' Crime Time. (Crime Time)

'a remarkable story which Clarkson tells in a lively, journalistic way' Martin Edward. (Martin Edward)

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Wensley Clarkson has written numerous true crime books, including biographies of Brink's-Mat defendant Kenneth Noye, ex-Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, and legendary south London criminal Jimmy Moody.

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