- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (18 April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330486020
- ISBN-13: 978-0330486026
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 256,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery
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In this rare and compelling collaboration between criminal and detective, Gotcha! is the story of one of the most audacious robberies in British history.
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An exciting crime caper as police and criminals team up for the first time to tell the inside story of the notorious Security Express Robbery. On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash, worth [pound]6 million then ([pound]26 million in today's currency). The gang made no mistakes and left behind not a single clue. Det. Supt Peter Wilton was the man in charge of the investigation. He spent years relentlessly tracking the culprits, playing a ruthless cat and mouse game that eventually led him to some of London's most notorious villains - including the infamous Knight family. John Knight and his brother Ronnie were well-known faces, hard men who kept to the code of the East End gangster. They were riding high when John Knight and his hand-picked team executed the perfect robbery, and Ronnie helped launder the cash. They almost got away with it...As gripping as any thriller, Gotcha! combines the Knights' and Wilton's stories to graphically recreate the robbery, from the adrenalin-fuelled raid to the long police search, from the high life on the Costa del Sol to interrogation, betrayal and arrest.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Gotcha! tells the story of the Security Express robbery from both sides - that of the villains and that of the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad. It is well-researched and in-depth. Clearly the writer, journalist Pete Sawyer, has gone to great lengths to make the book as detailed as possible. The resultant language is beautiful, precise, and perhaps a little out-of-place for this genre. In fact the book feels to me more like a novel than a true crime book. Because of the level of detail, Gotcha! provides a very interesting psychological profile of the criminal mind at work and play. After reading this book you really feel like you know the Knight family. It also paints a (somewhat nostalgic) picture of East London and its tight-knit community. This is an unusual and ambitious book. For me, it worked.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This exciting and unusual biography of the Knight brothers, Ronnie and John, their part in the Security Express robbery, and of Peter Wilton, the detective who pursued them, makes compulsive reading. Written in a style akin to a 'whodunit' novel, this book should appeal to a wide audience, both readers of biographies and crime fiction.
The book provides a thought provoking insight into the criminal minds, and examines in detail the webs of relationships that existed between the villains.
Pete Sawyer presents the reader with so much detail about the everyday lives of the principle players, it is hard not to emphasis with their tribulations.
An excellent read on many levels.
The book provides a thought provoking insight into the criminal minds, and examines in detail the webs of relationships that existed between the villains.
Pete Sawyer presents the reader with so much detail about the everyday lives of the principle players, it is hard not to emphasis with their tribulations.
An excellent read on many levels.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a very enjoyable book, a good account and insight in to the lives of these people. I have passed this book on to others who have also not been able to put it down. Well worth a read.
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