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The Gold

The Real Story Behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s Biggest Heist

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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 and Thomas Turner (P)2023 Penguin Audio True Crime Crime Robbery
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well presented, keeps you listening, having worked in an around the trading estate it added to the pleasure of listening

more in depth than TV drama

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A fascinating tale and very well researched and documented. once started I could not leave it alone, will definitely be coming back to reread it in the future. Would love to hear similar tale of Security Express and Brussels diamond heist.

addictive, loved it

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A great read/listen everything you want from a true crime story, difficult not to listen in one go

Golden snatch 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Gripping, surprising, yet as detailed as any historical record can be. I just started my second listen, after 7 or 8 months since first reading. Excellent pacing that keeps you keenly listening, and wanting to get to the end, immersive scene-setting that envelopes you with the sights, smells and feel of the time, and a story that you couldnt second-guess, even if you remember parts of the story and think you know it quite well.

An improbably eventful tale of calamitous and tragic daring

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This a fascinating story that I very much enjoyed watching on the television, not here.

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