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| Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ronnie Knight, John Knight, Richard Wilton, Pete Sawyer
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 277974
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0330486020
EAN: 9780330486026
Publication Date: April 18, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
Gotcha August 29, 2008
This was a very enjoyable book, a good account and insight in to the lives of these people. I have passed this book on to others who have also not been able to put it down. Well worth a read.
An exciting and enjoyable read April 29, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This exciting and unusual biography of the Knight brothers, Ronnie and John, their part in the Security Express robbery, and of Peter Wilton, the detective who pursued them, makes compulsive reading. Written in a style akin to a 'whodunit' novel, this book should appeal to a wide audience, both readers of biographies and crime fiction.
The book provides a thought provoking insight into the criminal minds, and examines in detail the webs of relationships that existed between the villains.
Pete Sawyer presents the reader with so much detail about the everyday lives of the principle players, it is hard not to emphasis with their tribulations.
An excellent read on many levels.
A nostalgic portrait of one of Britain's greatest robberies April 10, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Gotcha! tells the story of the Security Express robbery from both sides - that of the villains and that of the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad. It is well-researched and in-depth. Clearly the writer, journalist Pete Sawyer, has gone to great lengths to make the book as detailed as possible. The resultant language is beautiful, precise, and perhaps a little out-of-place for this genre. In fact the book feels to me more like a novel than a true crime book. Because of the level of detail, Gotcha! provides a very interesting psychological profile of the criminal mind at work and play. After reading this book you really feel like you know the Knight family. It also paints a (somewhat nostalgic) picture of East London and its tight-knit community. This is an unusual and ambitious book. For me, it worked.
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