Welcome to the MARDI GRA Experience.
by COOPER, SIMON:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 1857823516
- ISBN 13
- 9781857823516
- Seller
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,3-colour block (brown,black, red) illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,unblemished,publisher's original,plain red cloth bds with crisp,bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-237pp [paginated] includes 8pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp146/7. December 6th,1994.Wrapped in cheery festive paper,six parcels were delivered to branches of Barclays Bank across London.But the paper hid a deadly Christmas gift.Inside each parcel was a video cassette box and inside each box lurked a booby trapped shotgun cartridge.As the box was opened,a simple firing mechanism snapped down,detonating the cartridges in the faces of two Barclays workers. Attached to each parcel was what appeared to be a still from the hit film 'Reservoir Dogs', annotated with a cryptic message - 'Welcome to the Mardi Gra Experience'. Thus began one of the greatest police manhunts of all time. The bomber's targets were branches of banks and supermarkets,which were systematically attacked with devices which increased in their sophistication and deadliness as the campaign progressed. Police were baffled,faced with dangerous,random attacks, implemented by an obsessive madman who appeared to enjoy the cat-and- mouse game he was playing.Mardi Gra wanted money - £10,000 a day,for life,drawn from cashpoints with special cards.And he wasn't going to stop bombing until he got his way. Under the code name 'Operation Heath',police mounted the biggest covert surveillance operation ever undertaken in Britain, bigger even than its major anti-IRA actions.An elaborate electronic cashpoint sting was created.The trap was set.The psychological profile of Mardi Gra told police they were looking for an obsessive man over 35.But they could never have guessed who would eventually walk into their trap. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja28898
- Title
- Welcome to the MARDI GRA Experience.
- Author
- COOPER, SIMON:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w photographs and colour scenic photographs.
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857823516
- ISBN 13
- 9781857823516
- Publisher
- LONDON.BLAKE PUBLISHING LTD.,1999.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- January 2000
- Keywords
- q52.BIOGRAPHY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 1857823516.Edgar+Russell Pearce_Mardi Gra Bombers.Video-case Booby-trap bombs.Blackmail_bombs_Sainsbury_Barclays Bank.Operation Heath_Mardi Gra Bombers.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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