Odd Man Out: My Life on the Loose and the Truth about The Great Train Robbery
- ISBN-10
- 0330337688
- ISBN-13
- 9780330337687
- Series
- Odd Man Out
- Category
- Criminals
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Ronald Arthur Biggs
Description
Just after three o`clock on the morning of Thursday 8 August 1963, on a stretch of railway track in Buckinghamshire, 16 men ambushed the Glasgow-to-London mail train. Their total haul that night was #2,631,784 - worth over #26 million at today`s rates. Having made a successful escape from the scene of the crime, Biggs - along with most of the other gang members - was subsequently captured; he received a 30-year jail sentence. But within 15 months he had made an escape from Wandsworth Prison, and he has been eluding the police ever since. In his autobiography, Biggs speaks openly about the robbery and his five years of being chased around the world by Scotland Yard, and also of the birth of his third son, Farley. In 1970, Biggs settled in Brazil, where he still lives thanks to his Brazilian son Michael.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Oliver Twist: Roman
By Charles DickensOliver Twist: Roman
-
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
By John PearsonIn this classic account john Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their eventual downfall and imprisonment for life."--Back cover.
-
Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins
By John PearsonWhy? This is the question John Pearson, author of the ground-breaking The Profession of Violence, asked himself as he began to re-examine their history, unearthing much previously unknown material which sheds new light on the deadly duo.
-
Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins
By John PearsonEver since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their official biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them.
-
Invisible Women: What's Wrong with Women's Prisons?
By Angela Devlin... 115116 117217221 222-223 275 277303 314 Boards of Visitors xi 29.113301 body swaps 33 Bosley, Claire 281 Bourne Trust 275 Bowler, Sheila ix.133 169 186309 353359 Brixton prison 21 5695 212307308 331 Broadmoor 244 261 Brockhill, Index.
-
Hostile Witness
By Richard BermanStealing an incriminating diary in order to get revenge on a congressman who set him up, Lightfoot Scott wrongly lands in jail a second time, this time for murder, and calls upon his lawyer friend David Cohen for help. Original.
-
Hostage
By Skye Warren, Annika Martin"I?d never even kissed a boy the night I met Stone.
-
Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Criminal
By James M. Doyle, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Jennifer E. DysartBy shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, [the author] illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ...
-
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files
By John Higgins, Dan Abnett, John WagnerKeeping order are the Judges, a stern polic force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories.
-
Ma Barker
By Sue L. HamiltonAn account of the robberies, killings, and kidnappings by "Ma" Barker and her sons.