KILLING CHARLIE

Book ID/图书代码： 08430004B07924

English Summary/英文概要： Killing Charlie charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson, the most powerful villain to emerge from Britain’s crime of the twentieth century: the Great Train Robbery. Wilson’s life story is one of greed, corruption and an eventual descent into a living hell as his rivals decide to wipe him off the face of the earth - with the tacit approval of Spanish, British and US drug enforcement agencies. Although he first made his name in the underworld following the Great Train Robbery, it was as a drug emperor of unquenchable savagery that Wilson came to be regarded as an all-powerful criminal capable of cold-blooded brutality that spelt the end for many of those who crossed him. Killing Charlie takes us on a roller-coaster ride though five decades of the London underworld, including a long spell on the Costa del Crime and forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched, it uses a strong narrative to pull the reader into Wilson’s bizarre, sordid, crime-filled world; one that took him from the slums of south-west London to the drug barons and playgrounds of Colombia and Spain via a lucrative role in developing London’s Docklands. A complex web of killings, armed robberies and multimillion pound drug deals lay behind the criminal life and times of Wilson. Yet his story also provides a history of organised crime in Britain, starting when Jack Spot faded out in the ’50s as the Krays came to prominence and ending with Wilson’s own violent demise in the ’90s. Containing interviews with many of Charlie Wilson’s former associates, Killing Charlie reveals how Wilson struck fear into many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; and how he desperately tried to ’retire’ only to discover the inevitable - that gangsters never rest in peace.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《查理必死》描述了一位曾在二十世纪最富盛名的火车大劫案作案的查理•威尔逊，充满奇幻色彩的落网故事。
威尔逊从武装抢劫逐渐成为毒品世界叱咤风云的黑帮一位老大。而当他的对手，西班牙，英国和美国毒品管制署，一致默许认同要从地球上除掉他的这张脸时，他的贪婪奢靡的生活也就此宣告终结。
《查理必死》是一部横跨伦敦半个世纪的黑帮浮沉录，其中包括了对西班牙南部海岸和危险的北美犯罪市场的长期深入细致的研究，作者带领读者进入了威尔逊诡异，肮脏的犯罪王国，从伦敦南部的穷街陋巷，到更为艰辛的监狱走廊，从加拿大宁静的小镇，到西班牙充斥着毒品，狂躁和刺激的Costa del Sol 海岸。其中还包括作者对查理•威尔逊前合伙人的大量采访，《杀死比尔》还揭示了威尔逊是如何让其他犯罪分子望而生怯的；他为何会爱上一个会令他几乎丧命的美女；以及他是如何地渴望‘金盆洗手’，最终却发现对于一个黑帮人物来说，隐退江湖是绝不可能的一件事。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 温斯利•克拉克逊曾撰写过许多犯罪小说，其中包括上世纪八十年代发生在英国希思罗机场的著名黄金劫持案，前火车大盗查理•威尔逊，和伦敦南部罪犯吉米•穆迪的传记。其小说《头号公敌》曾是1990年代最为畅销的真实犯罪小说之一。

Wensley Clarkson has written numerous true crime books, including biographies of Brink’s-Mat defendant Kenneth Noye, ex-Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, and legendary south London criminal Jimmy Moody. The Noye book, Public Enemy No. 1, was one of the ten bestselling true crime titles of the 1990s.

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