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Killing Charlie

Killing Charlie charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson the most powerful villain to emerge from the ultimate British crime of the twentieth century: the Great Train Robbery. Wilson moved on from armed robbery to become an all-powerful figure in the drug underworld. But his life of greed and corruption would eventually end when his rivals decided to wipe him off the face of the earth - with the tacit approval of Spanish British and US drug enforcement agencies. Killing Charlie is a roller-coaster ride through five decades of London's gangland including a long spell on the Costa del Crime and forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched it pulls the reader into Wilson's bizarre sordid crime-filled world - one that took
him from the mean streets of south London to even harsher prison corridors and from a quiet life in small-town Canada to the heated manic cocaine-fuelled Costa del Sol. Containing interviews with many of Charlie Wilson's former associates Killing Charlie also reveals how Wilson was feared by many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; and how he desperately tried to 'retire' only to discover the inevitable - that gangsters never rest in peace.
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Killing Charlie charts the extraordinary rise & spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson the most powerful villain to emerge from the ultimate British crime of the twentieth century: the Great Train Robbery. Wilson moved on from armed robbery to become an all-powerful figure in the drug underworld. But his life of greed & corruption would eventually end when his rivals decided to wipe him off the face of the earth
- with the tacit approval of Spanish British & US drug enforcement agencies. Killing Charlie is a roller-coaster ride through five decades of London's gangland including a long spell on the Costa del Crime & forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched it pulls the reader into Wilson's bizarre sordid crime-filled world
- one that took him from the mean streets of south London to even harsher prison corridors & from a quiet life in small-town Canada to the heated manic cocaine-fuelled Costa del Sol. Containing interviews with many of Charlie Wilson's former associates Killing Charlie also reveals how Wilson was feared by many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; & how he desperately tried to 'retire' only to discover the inevitable
- that gangsters never rest in peace.

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