Cobra gold
Subtitle: the world's biggest bank robbery : the SAS's greatest ever scam
By: Damien Lewis
Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781407409252
Subjects: Fiction; Bank robberies; Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service; Great Britain
Description: Based on a set of real-life events, Cobra Gold tells the story of the world's biggest ever bank robbery. Beirut, 1976. An SAS Major has tasked his men with stealing terrorist documents hidden in a bank vault. But when SAS veteran Luke Kilbride presents his plan for the mission, the Major tears it to pieces. Kilbride doesn't appreciate this jumped-up officer telling him he is a fool. Neither do the men in his unit. Together, they decide to prove the Major wrong and rob the bank anyway, becoming fabulously rich in the process. But whilst the robbery goes like clockwork, the escape goes badly wrong and they are forced to hide the loot and make a spectacular getaway. Two decades later, Kilbride and his team return to recover their hidden gold. But unbeknown to them, a powerful and ruthless adversary is hell bent on finding it first.
Notes: Originally published: London: Century.