The Curse of Brinks-Mat: 25 Years of Murder & Mayhem: The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery
Автор:Wensley Clarkson Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 352 ISBN: 1849163057 The definitive story of Britaina??s most legendary crime and its legacy from one of the worlda??s top true crime authorsA The Brinka??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 Brinka??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 A?28 million. More than twenty-five years later, A?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 Brinka??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...
