SEXY BEASTS The Real Inside Story of The Hatton Garden Mob

Hardback. The Hatton Garden Heist captured the public's imagination more than another other crime since The Great Train Robbery. It was supposed to make a fortune for a team of old time professional criminals. Their last hurrah. A final lucrative job that would send the old codgers off on happy retirements to the badlands of Spain and beyond. It seemed to be the stuff of legends. Tens of millions of pounds worth of valuables grabbed from secretive safety deposit boxes in a vault beneath one of the most famous gold and jewellery districts in the world. But where did it all go wrong for this band of old time villains? And why did the gang's bid to pull off the world's biggest burglary turn into a deadly game of cat and mouse featuring the police and London's most dangerous crime lords? Through his unique contacts inside the London underworld, the author persuaded those who really knew the truth to reveal the chilling details behind Britain's biggest ever burglary. Illus. in colour, Postscript and Appendix. 335pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. As New in dw.