Killing Goldfinger: The Secret, Bullet-Riddled Life and Death of Britain's Gangster Number One - Couverture rigide

Clarkson, Wensley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786484854 ISBN 13 : 9781786484857

Editeur : Quercus, 2017

Synopsis

The inside story of the life and death of Britain's criminal kingpin and the empire he built

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

WENSLEY CLARKSON has closely investigated John Palmer and many of his criminal associates for the past 30 years through his books and TV documentaries about the British underworld. He's encountered Palmer and many of his friends and enemies, on both sides of the law, and Clarkson's research has included prison visits, surveillance operations, police raids and even post mortems. Clarkson and his family have received death threats from Palmer's associates and the author was recently approached by police detectives investigating the murder of Palmer. There is no-one else more qualified to tell this story.

Clarkson's books - published in more than thirty countries - have sold almost two million copies. He has also written movie screenplays and made numerous TV documentaries in the UK, US and Spain. His true-crime books include biographies of John Palmer's criminal associate Kenneth Noye, ex-Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson and legendary south London criminal Jimmy Moody, and his 2016 book Sexy Beasts, about the Hatton Garden heist was nominated for a prestigious Crime Writer's Association Dagger award.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Selected newspaper headlines about John 'Goldfinger' Palmer:

SWINDLER RAN EMPIRE WITH ARMY OF THUGS
(Daily Telegraph 2000)

HOW SLICK TIMESHARE FRAUDSTER CHEATED THOUSANDS (Guardian 2001)

CRIME BARON GOLDFINGER BACK BEHIND BARS AGAIN
(Daily Express 2007)

GOLDFINGER SWAPS JAIL FOR LUXURY LIFE ON TENERIFE
(Daily Express 2009)

JOHN 'GOLDFINGER' PALMER WAS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS IN ESSEX SHOOTING
(Daily Mail 2015)

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Killing Goldfinger charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of John "Goldfinger" Palmer, the richest and most powerful gangster in UK criminal history. It exposes for the first time the massive covert operation to bring Palmer to justice and how he still managed to evade prison for many years.

Palmer earned his nickname "Goldfinger" because he literally got his own fingers dirty smelting down much of the gold from Heathrow Airport's Brink's-Mat robbery, which was the world's biggest ever bullion heist.

Killing Goldfinger is a roller-coaster ride through five decades of the UK and the Spanish underworld, including how Palmer turned the holiday island of Tenerife into his own personal fiefdom. Meticulously researched, it pulls the reader into Palmer's bizarre, sordid, crime-filled life - one that took him from the mean streets of Birmingham to harsh prison corridors and from a life of great riches which led directly to the killing fields of Essex.

Containing interviews with many of Palmer's former associates, Killing Goldfinger also reveals how Palmer was feared by many other criminals, how his addiction to money drove him on and how he desperately tried to 'retire' - only to discover that gangsters never rest in peace.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quercus
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786484854
• ISBN 13: 9781786484857
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible