Killing Goldfinger - Wensley Clarkson

KILLING GOLDFINGER charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular
bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal
ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld. During the late
1990s, Palmer was rated as rich as The Queen by the Sunday Times Rich List.

Palmer
earned his nickname Goldfinger after smelting (in his back garden) tens
of millions of pounds worth of stolen gold bullion from the 20th
century's most lucrative heist; the Brink's-Mat robbery. Palmer then
used his share of the millions to become the vicious overlord of a vast
illegal timeshare property empire in Tenerife. At the same time,
Goldfinger financed huge international drugs shipments as well as some
of the most notorious UK robberies of the past 30 years, including the
50m Securitas heist in Kent in 2006 and, many believe, the Hatton
Garden heist in 2015.

Palmer vowed to hunt down all his
underworld enemies. But in the end it was those same criminals who
decided to bring his life to an end. Murdered in June 2015, with charges
of fraud, money laundering and worse pending, this book tells his murky
story for the first time.

As outrageous and bullet-riddled as the hit Netflix series Narcos, Killing Goldfinger
tells the true story of Britain's underworld kingpin, who turned the
sunshine holiday island of Tenerife into his very own Crime Incorporated
and then paid the ultimate price.