How to Rob the Bank of England,
by Clifford Thurlow
leer en españolOn a sunny May morning in 1990, a bank courier strode out of the Bank of England and, minutes later, was robbed at knifepoint of 301 bearer bonds worth £292 million. It was the biggest theft in British history.The thing is... when Keith Cheeseman received a call from a contact in London’s underworld and attended a meeting the night of the robbery, he counted £427 million in bonds – £135 million more than the BBC and the Bank of England had reported.As Keith set out to launder the bonds, Scotland Yard and the FBI were always one step ahead in tracking them down. Over the next eighteen months, two gangland figures were shot dead and more than eighty people were arrested. Keith was the only man ever jailed for the crime.Keith Cheeseman is the last of the old-time gangsters, a c...