Killing Goldfinger : the secret, bullet-riddled life and death of Britain's gangster number one
Clarkson, Wensley2017
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'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 stolen gold bullion from the 20th century's most lucrative heist; the Brink's-Mat robbery. Palmer then used his share of the millions to become the vicious overlord of a vast illegal timeshare property empire in Tenerife.
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Author:
Clarkson, Wensley, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2017.
Collation:
380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786484857 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.1092B/PAL364.1092 PAL
Language:
English
BRN:
2499915