The story of the life and death of the criminal king of Britain and the empire he built

“KILLING GOLDFINGER” follows the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of John Palmer, the richest and most powerful criminal to emerge from the modern British underworld. During the 1990s, Palmer was estimated to be as wealthy as the queen according to the Sunday Times newspaper's Rich List.

Palmer earned the nickname Goldfinger after he melted down (in his garden) hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of stolen gold from the most lucrative heist of the 20th century, the Brink’s-Mat robbery. He then financed a huge illegal real estate empire in Tenerife, while simultaneously funding large international drug shipments and some of Britain’s most notorious robberies of the past 30 years.

Palmer vowed to hunt down all of his underworld enemies. But in the end, those same criminals decided to end his life. He was murdered in June 2015, amid charges of fraud, money laundering, and others, and this book narrates his complex story for the first time. As much spectacle and gunfire as the popular Netflix series Narcos, “Killing Goldfinger” tells the true story of the king of the British underworld, who turned the island of Tenerife into his own criminal empire and paid the ultimate price.

Pages: 352, Publication Year: 0614, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm