Bibliograph

Goldfinger and me, bullets, byllion and betrayal : John Palmer trye story, Marnie Palmer with Tom Morgan

Type

Label

Goldfinger and me, bullets, byllion and betrayal : John Palmer trye story, Marnie Palmer with Tom Morgan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Goldfinger and me

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marnie Palmer with Tom Morgan

Sub title

bullets, byllion and betrayal : John Palmer trye story

Summary

John "Goldfinger" Palmer was a multi-millionaire kingpin of the British underworld, who would go on to mastermind a criminal empire to dwarf any crook of his generation. Palmer hit the big time in 1983 with the Brink's-Mat gold bullion raid, netting £500 million in today's money for himself and Kenneth Noye - the biggest heist in UK criminal history at the time. While murders and lethal accidents befell at least 20 accomplices and police officers connected to the raid, Palmer somehow remained unscathed. His luck finally ran out on 24 June 2015 when he was shot six times by an assassin. The killer remains unknown and, until now, so too did most of Palmer's secrets. Few gangsters have attracted as many newspaper column inches in recent decades, but only one woman saw it all from the start and lives to tell the tale. In Goldfinger and Me, his wife Marnie lifts the lid on Palmer's rise from a deprived childhood in Birmingham to a life of yachts, private jets, helicopters, fast cars, cocaine addiction and infidelity. His criminal exploits in Tenerife as well as his links to the Hatton Garden jeweler heist are also laid bare in this explosive book

Target audience

adult

Classification