The Last Viking: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Heist

ISBN-13: 9781412086837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 196 str.

Ron Dawson

Opis

On the tenth anniversary of D-Day, the Aston Villains mob, a criminal gang from Birmingham, pulled off the world's greatest heist. At the cost of his own life, the last surviving member of the Villains tells his own inside story of their audacious robbery. Telling of sea crossings in the dead of night in WW2 DUKW amphibious vehicles, the destruction of a peaceful island's communication links with the outside world, the capture of its police force, shootings, horrific torture and deaths, Nazi money laundering, impetuous and divisive sex, high stakes gambles, treachery, revenge, inter-gang rivalries and the unremitting merciless powers of Her Majesty's Secret Services, this is a fast-moving story with unexpected twists and turns.
But why was news of this massive and violent raid murderously suppressed by the British establishment?
Why did some of the gang walk free while others had to die?
And just what was Ronnie Wheeler's final deal, and why did he also have to die?