SLIP-UP How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him. The story behind the scoop (SIGNED)

Hardback. SIGNED. For years Ronald Biggs, the lone ranger of the Great Train Robbery, had been on the loose and nobody - not Scotland Yard, not the world's Press - had been able to lay a finger on him. Then young Colin MacKenzie of the 'Daily Express' had the incredible luck to stumble on the whereabouts of the famous fugitive. And, it seemed, the prospect of a swift fortune. For the rest of Fleet Street, the 'Express' coup spelled disaster. The counter-attack emptied offices and bars across 2 continents as the opposition packed off its troops to unbearably glamorous Rio de Janeiro. By then the too-trusting Biggs had been sold out by his new friends. And so had MacKenzie - by his old ones. But the best was yet to come. Although the Yard finally had him in its grasp Biggs' breathtaking talent for coming out on top triumphed. Detective Chief Superintendent Slipper had to fly back to London empty-handed. The author has written an hilarious and riveting how-dunnit, an inside account of the glorious shennanigans his colleagues got up to in pursuit of the main objective of their calling - to eat each other alive. 174pp. 8vo. h/back. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY TONY DELANO. With tiny label to fpd o/w Nr. F. in protected Vg+ dw.