Killing Goldfinger - The Secret, Bullet-Riddled Life and Death of Britain's Gangster Number One (Paperback)

The inside story of the life and death of Britain's criminal kingpin and the empire he built 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. At the same time,Goldfinger financed huge international drugs shipments as well as some of the most notorious UK robberies of the past 30 years, including the GBP50m Securitas heist in Kent in 2006 and, many believe, the Hatton Garden heist in 2015. Palmer vowed to hunt down all his underworld enemies. But in the end it was those same criminals who decided to bring his life to an end. Murdered in June 2015, with charges of fraud, money laundering and worse pending, this book tells his murky story for the first time. As outrageous and bullet-riddled as the hit Netflix series Narcos, Killing Goldfinger tells the true story of Britain's underworld kingpin, who turned the sunshine holiday island of Tenerife into his very own Crime Incorporated and then paid the ultimate price.

General

Imprint:	Quercus Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2018
Authors:	Wensley Clarkson
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-1-78648-488-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Organized crime > General
LSN:	1-78648-488-9
Barcode:	9781786484888

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