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HEIST: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery
The world's biggest cash robbery took place in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006, when an armed gang burst into a high-security cash depot and stole £53 million. For the first time since that famous raid the full story can be told in Heist, by Howard Sounes, author of the true crime bestseller Fred & Rose.
Having become close to the Tonbridge gang and the police during three years of research, Sounes relates a classic crime caper in irresistible, almost forensic detail. T
The perpetrators were no master criminals. The heist was plotted in suburban living rooms by a gang of misfits including a used car dealer, a thick-as-two-planks roofer and two Albanian casual workerscann ca. We follow the gang as they put a Securitas cash depot under surveillance, get a man on the inside, use unsuspecting girlfriends to run errands, and persuade a hairdresser to make disguises so they can kidnap the manager. Their plan was home-made, audacious and ruthless and it worked like a dream, setting a new British and world record for a cash robbery. Only in times of war have larger sums of ready money been stolen.
After the robbery comes the exciting, sometimes comical story of the getaway. Detectives and criminals both make mistakes. Money is found and arrests are made, followed by trial and convictions. But key characters slip out of the country, and millions are never recovered.
There has never been a bank job as big as the Tonbridge robbery. There has never been a crime book as compelling as Heist.
£7.99
TRUE CRIME
Pocket Books

'Cleverly constructed, full of good ideas and rarely less than entertaining . . . [Sounes] is a fount of good stories and interesting insights'
Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail
‘It was Britain’s biggest ever robbery – but the £53 million Securitas raid in 2006 not only involved kidnap and terror....but also a series of blunders worthy of a classic crime caper. Now a dramatic new book reveals how bungling gang members dodged clueless cops before and after the robbery – and how they left a trail of evidence including plans for the heist, gang photos...and botched disguises that helped nail them’
Extract, News of the World 22/11
‘Exclusive with 56M raid suspect Lee Murray. “In England I would never know if I would be released from prison again. Someone like me don’t get released from indeterminate sentences. And what chance do I have of getting a not guilty? They have already made it sound like I committed the robbery.” Murray made his comments to author Howard Sounes, who has written a book on the Tonbridge raid’
Daily Star 6/12