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Millionaires Day

Kit Power

Casa editrice: French Press

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On Sunday, 22nd December, 2019, everyone in the United Kingdom woke up with one million pounds in cash under their beds.
 
The miracle – or catastrophe – was never adequately explained. In the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic the event was largely forgotten or treated as an urban legend.
 
Until now.
 
In this explosive volume, investigative journalist/historian Kit Power finally blows the lid off that surreal, impossible morning. Focussing on a few residents of Milton Keynes, a uniquely diverse city northwest of London, Power lays bare:
 
- the wonder of waking up to a found fortune through the eyes of a neglected child
 
- the madness and panic of an unprepared public from the perspective of an overworked police officer
 
- the graphic terror inflicted by a band of reprobate gangsters for whom too much is never enough
 
- the strangeness of it all through the outlook of man’s best friend
 
Note: for legal purposes, this book is marketed as fiction. But no one who lived through it could deny the profound impact of…
 
MILLIONAIRES DAY
Disponibile da: 14/10/2024.
Lunghezza di stampa: 247 pagine.

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