Goldfinger and me : bullets, bullion and betrayal : John Palmer's true story /

Includes index.

John 'Goldfinger' Palmer was a multi-millionaire kingpin of the British underworld. Palmer hit the big time in 1983 with the Brink's-Mat gold bullion raid, netting 500 million in today's money for himself and Kenneth Noye - the biggest heist in UK criminal history at the time. While murders and lethal accidents befell at least 20 accomplices and police officers connected to the raid, Palmer somehow remained unscathed. His luck finally ran out on 24 June 2015 when he was shot six times by an assassin. The killer remains unknown and, until now, so too did most of Palmer's secrets. Few gangsters have attracted as many newspaper column inches in recent decades, but only one woman saw it all from the start and lives to tell the tale. In this book, his wife Marnie lifts the lid on Palmer's rise from a deprived childhood in Birmingham to a life of yachts, private jets, helicopters, fast cars, cocaine addiction and infidelity.