Killing Goldfinger charts the extraordinary rise & spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld.

Palmer earned his nickname Goldfinger after smelting (in his back garden) tens of millions of pounds worth of stolen gold bullion from the 20th centurys most lucrative heist; the Brinks-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 &, many believe, the Hatton Garden heist in 2015.

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

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781786484888
• Author: Wensley Clarkson
• Publisher: Quercus Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 19 x 12cm













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Dr Jay Handler lives a charmed life. A wife & children he loves & a successful career. But one day he receives a call that changes everything. His troubled nephew, Evan, has committed suicide & his father is in despair. Heading to California, Jay is soon convinced this was no suicide. Deterred by the Police who want him to leave the matter alone, he is desperate to dig deeper. But he is soon caught up in a dangerous world with his brother's shady past, secrets & ruthless killers. ...

Every working mum has had to face it. The guilt-fuelled, anxiety-filled first day back in the office after maternity leave.

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This is almost all of what survives of a journal Colin Perry kept between March & November 1940, when he was eighteen years old, written in his home in Tooting & in the City of London where he worked. The journal was never intended for publication, it is only the youthful, untrained outpourings of a proud & totally insignificant Londoner. It spans what the Air Ministry was to call '...the Great Days from 8 August
- 31 October 1940' & the fifty-seven nights when the bombing of London was unceasing. This is the period enshrined in our history as the Battle of Britain, the most momentous year for Britain in the twentieth century.

Includes:: 70 Photographs


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Steve Range believes his friend Randy is a corpse in a desert grave
- until he reappears in an Al Qaeda video, spitting extremist
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A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact & fiction. His prey ? the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives & mechanics of how serial killers operate. & for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life & death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses the computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but vowed never to work for them again when they went against her advice & badly screwed up an investigation as a consequence. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest. Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. & again. & Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal & professional. Rich in atmosphere, ' Killing the Shadows' uses the backdrops of city & country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter & hunted, a confrontation that can only have one outcome. ...

Our culture's obsession with serial killers as its own dark shadow sometimes obscures the fact that people kill for other reasons than sex. In Killing the Shadows Val Mc Dermid's new detective, academic psychologist Fiona Cameron, has become something of a maverick because of her insistence on using other sorts of profiling as well as the standard psycho-sexual ones; she has refused to work for the Metropolitan police any more because of a murder they failed to solve because they took another psychologist's advice. Yet the woman murdered on Hampstead Heath preys on her conscience, along with her own murdered sister, as she works for the Spanish police on a killer who decorates the sights of Toledo with dead tourists. & then someone starts killing crime writers & Fiona's lover Kit is on the killer's list. Val Mc Dermid's ingenuity & solid sense of how crime & investigation works have made her one of the dominant figures in contemporary British crime writing. Killing the Shadows is one of her best books yet, both for its powerful critique of modern policing & for the serious questions it asks about our fascination with the deadliest of criminals. --Roz Kaveney. This book has 604 pages & is 17.4 x 11.2 x 4.2 cm ...

More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive & even deadly. Now that homeopathic remedies are offered on the NHS, it's clear that various therapies once considered alternative or complementary, have become mainstream
- prescribed to burn fat, shrink prostates, alleviate colds, reduce stress, eliminate pain & prevent cancer. At the same time, uptake of effective vaccines such as MMR has fallen
- a disturbing trend which, in the case of the MMR, has lead to a sharp rise in the number of measles cases. In ' Killing Us Softly' Paul Offit reveals, alternative medicine
- an unregulated industry under no obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks
- can actually be very harmful. In ' Killing Us Softly' he exposes how: * Homeopathic asthma preparations & bogus cancer cures have replaced life-saving medicines. * Acupuncture needles have pierced hearts, lungs, & livers & transmitted viruses, including hepatitis B, hepatitis C & HIV. * Chiropractic manipulations have torn arteries. * Megavitamins increase the risk of cancer & heart disease-a fact well known to scientists but virtually unknown to the public. Using real-life case histories to back his argument, Dr Offit shows us why any medical treatment
- alternative or conventional
- must be properly evaluated. ' There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works & medicine that doesn't.'





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As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline. The problem is that she's the daughter

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Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland's plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. A powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth's behest, & is threatening a blockade
- or worse.
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