Sexy beasts : the true story of the "Diamond Geezers" and the record-breaking $100 million Hatton Garden heist / / Wensley Clarkson

• Autore: Clarkson Wensley
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Hachette Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages)
• Disciplina: 364.15/520942142
• Soggetto topico: Robbery - England - London; Jewelry theft - England - London; Thieves - England - London
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Welcome -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- The Sexy Beasts -- Prologue -- PART ONE: THE HISTORY -- Chapter 1: Crime's Labyrinth -- Chapter 2: London's Badlands -- Chapter 3: Watching and Listening -- Chapter 4: Knocking Down Doors -- Chapter 5: In the Money -- Chapter 6: As Good as Gold -- Chapter 7: Partners in Crime -- Chapter 8: Casualties of War -- Chapter 9: Bang to Rights -- Chapter 10: Bandits High -- Chapter 11: Timeshare or Bust -- Chapter 12: Missed Opportunities -- Chapter 13: Itchy Feet -- PART TWO: THE JOB -- Chapter 14: All Wound Up -- Chapter 15: Finding the Troops -- Chapter 16: The Crossing -- Chapter 17: True Professionals -- Chapter 18: Time Gentlemen, Please -- Chapter 19: No Turning Back -- Chapter 20: Too Close for Comfort -- Chapter 21: Sleeping Dogs Lie -- Chapter 22: Déjà Vu -- Chapter 23: Anticlimax -- Chapter 24: Keeping Up Appearances -- Chapter 25: Feeding the Pack -- Chapter 26: Second Bite of the Cherry -- Chapter 27: Trouble on the Horizon -- Chapter 28: Under the Cosh -- Chapter 29: Three Old Men in a Pub -- Chapter 30: The Wire -- PART THREE: THE JUSTICE -- Chapter 31: Lambs to the Slaughter -- Chapter 32: Fair Cop, Guv -- Chapter 33: The Animal Factory -- Chapter 34: Trouble Brewing -- Chapter 35: Fishy Tales -- Chapter 36: Future Shock -- Chapter 37: What Comes Around -- Chapter 38: Dead Man Walking -- Chapter 39: Aftermath -- Photos -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Also by Wensley Clarkson -- Appendix: The Sexy Beasts -- Newsletters -- Table of Contents -- Copyright.
• Sommario/riassunto: In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven", this book is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals--the so-called "Diamond Geezers"--robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest burglary in UK history.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sexy Beasts
• ISBN: 0-316-54594-5; 0-316-54597-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910148785403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II