The Gold The Gold

The Gold

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Publisher Description

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The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold


On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed.

The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015.

The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century.

©2023 Neil Forsyth & Thomas Turner (P)2023 Penguin Audio

GENRE
Non-Fiction
NARRATOR
HT
Homer Todiwala
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:58
hr min
RELEASED
2023
16 February
PUBLISHER
Ebury Publishing
SIZE
676.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Soldier Spy ,

It’s criminal to miss out

An in depth account of the 1983 gold bullion robbery and the subsequent fallout of the cursed gold and the criminals behind the mega heist. Really well written and narrated. If you’re a true crime buff then this is the audio book for you.

bluecab ,

Great book.

When I saw the BBC series I wasn’t going to bother with this book. , But thankfully the book sticks to the real story and the real characters , a great listen 10 out of 10 👍

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