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The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

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How it feels to be always and ever in love with the wrong person—and how perfect and perfectly flawed she is, or he is, all the same. and it isnt until that last paragraph, you know the one im talking about, the last sentence that just bleeds love and loneliness and beauty and sorrow, that you can close the book and finally say, ‘reading this may have been long, and not always easy, but i am all the better for it. The Sunday Times of London said that "no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey", and The Paris Review stated, "A book like The Goldfinch doesn't undo any clichés—it deals in them. The police arrest Noye at his home after he fatally stabs John Fordham, one of the officers involved in his surveillance.

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Vrij Nederland and De Groene Amsterdammer were also critical, arguing that the book was too drawn out.The NEC Term Service Contract, or TSC, is part of the NEC3 and NEC4 suites of contracts (see Practice Note: NEC contracts—introduction). Buildings were developed and sold on for a big profit, and the proceeds went back to the various gang members. The majority of the characters in The Gold are real but lawyer Edwyn Cooper (played by Dominic Cooper) and policewoman Nikki Jennings (Charlotte Spencer) are fictitious figures.

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Free trials are only available to individuals based in the UK and selected UK overseas territories and Caribbean countries. The Brink's-Mat robbery led to the birth of international large-scale money laundering, provided the dirty money that fuelled the London Docklands property boom, changed British policing, and sparked a series of violent murders that continued until 2015. The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat by Neil Forsyth and Thomas Turner is out now (Ebury Spotlight).The plot, the characters, the pacing, the tone, all the little details, so so many tiny details, all perfectly, astonishingly slotted into place; the patois and the slang and the dialogue and the descriptions, oh my god the descriptions, from a smile to a chandelier to a mood; even the goddamn chapter epigraphs, which, who even reads those? In a lengthy reflection, Theo wonders how much of his experiences were unavoidable due to fate or his character, and contemplates The Goldfinch and "the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire". They reveal how tragedy unfolded with the death of DC John Fordham as they staked out Kenneth Noye, one of the men at the epicentre of the gang transforming the gold into cash.

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