Gordon Goody was one of the central figures in the Great Train Robbery, and for fifty years he said almost nothing about it. Raised in rural Northern Ireland, he served as an army sergeant and in the merchant navy before turning to crime. He then became one of London’s most prolific robbers, running with Bruce Reynolds, Charlie Wilson and Buster Edwards.

In his own words, Goody tells how the gang came together, how the 1963 robbery was planned and carried out, and what followed.