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The Gold
- Narrator
- Homer Todiwala
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 16 February 2023
- Run Time
- 10 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- True crime, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
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
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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Very good account of the biggest robbery ever. Hearing some of the tales about how the gold was melted down and sold back was quite an eye opener
A lot of people seemed to do very well out of the robbery, although they didn't actually commit the crime.
The man who gave his interview in this book served his time but seemed to gain little to nothing from the job he did.Hojohns 2023-02-20
Details
- Author
- Neil Forsyth and Thomas Turner
- Narrator
- Homer Todiwala
- Duration
- 10 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529198058
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- True crime, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn 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
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