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A Million Ways To Stay On The Run: The Uncut Story of the international manhunt for public enemy No.1 Kenny Noye
A Sunday Times bestseller.
No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye.
A man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the £125 million (current value) Brink’s Mat gold bullion raid to the death of Covert Police Operative John Fordham, and road rage victim Stephen Cameron, the multimillionaire villain became universally known as ‘Public No 1’.
He had spent more than a third of his life in jail, but for two years, with near unlimited resources, and underworld connections around the globe, Noye played a game of hide and seek with Scotland Yard, MI5, INTERPOL, The FBI, and other national police forces as he fled the UK after the death of twenty-one-year-old Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident in May 1996.
From South America to Africa, from Cuba to Holland, France to Aruba, and beyond, Noye evaded capture despite the best efforts of some of the most powerful agencies and global security services. From dining with unwitting FBI officers on cruise ships to sitting on Castro’s presidential seat in Havana, Noye’s ‘Grand Tour on the Run’ was as unbelievable as it was unprecedented. It was life on the run but not as we know it.
Back in the UK, the family of Stephen Cameron grieved under the weight of the life of impunity and privilege that Noye was covertly leading but the takedown was as dramatic and extraordinary as the secrets of Noye’s life under the radar. The police would ultimately get their man.
His downfall would be placed at the door of an informant. Was it his lover or a gangland rival? Or was it the secret services? When the Spanish police ultimately swooped down with their English counterparts and arrested the affluent and charming ‘Mick the Builder’ – they were armed with a secret weapon of their own – Stephen Cameron’s fiancé.
With unique access to Noye, and key witnesses, the secret battle of wits between the underworld’s ‘Governor’ and law enforcement is reported in chilling detail.
The reader is given a 360’ vista of one of the most expensive manhunts in British policing history. The authors deliver a compelling account of a major criminal, who shunned the effective discomfort of bunkers and safe houses to live a life on the run brimming with luxury, women, sun, sea, and Bacardi – and all while hiding in plain sight.
No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye.
A man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the £125 million (current value) Brink’s Mat gold bullion raid to the death of Covert Police Operative John Fordham, and road rage victim Stephen Cameron, the multimillionaire villain became universally known as ‘Public No 1’.
He had spent more than a third of his life in jail, but for two years, with near unlimited resources, and underworld connections around the globe, Noye played a game of hide and seek with Scotland Yard, MI5, INTERPOL, The FBI, and other national police forces as he fled the UK after the death of twenty-one-year-old Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident in May 1996.
From South America to Africa, from Cuba to Holland, France to Aruba, and beyond, Noye evaded capture despite the best efforts of some of the most powerful agencies and global security services. From dining with unwitting FBI officers on cruise ships to sitting on Castro’s presidential seat in Havana, Noye’s ‘Grand Tour on the Run’ was as unbelievable as it was unprecedented. It was life on the run but not as we know it.
Back in the UK, the family of Stephen Cameron grieved under the weight of the life of impunity and privilege that Noye was covertly leading but the takedown was as dramatic and extraordinary as the secrets of Noye’s life under the radar. The police would ultimately get their man.
His downfall would be placed at the door of an informant. Was it his lover or a gangland rival? Or was it the secret services? When the Spanish police ultimately swooped down with their English counterparts and arrested the affluent and charming ‘Mick the Builder’ – they were armed with a secret weapon of their own – Stephen Cameron’s fiancé.
With unique access to Noye, and key witnesses, the secret battle of wits between the underworld’s ‘Governor’ and law enforcement is reported in chilling detail.
The reader is given a 360’ vista of one of the most expensive manhunts in British policing history. The authors deliver a compelling account of a major criminal, who shunned the effective discomfort of bunkers and safe houses to live a life on the run brimming with luxury, women, sun, sea, and Bacardi – and all while hiding in plain sight.
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279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 13, 2023
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April 10, 2023
A brilliant book
This is a very well written investigation into the life of Ken Noye, a man whose use of a knife on two occasions ruined the lives of so many. It is well balanced but also well nuanced in telling a story where, as is so many times the case the truth is difficult to determine. Thought provoking.
This is a very well written investigation into the life of Ken Noye, a man whose use of a knife on two occasions ruined the lives of so many. It is well balanced but also well nuanced in telling a story where, as is so many times the case the truth is difficult to determine. Thought provoking.
March 6, 2023
This is a brilliantly written and captivating account of Noye's time on the run and hunt to chase him down. Noye gives his honest thoughts on what was going through his head at certain times (trying to get it down to a manslaughter charge for example) and like wise you see the tragic but often touching relationship between the police and victims family.
I had two main issues with this book. For starters, I highly suspect Noye is something of a 'unreliable narrator' at times, often painting a picture of his time on the run being a James Bond like spree with his luxury hotels and women, he almost makes it sound like it was one big holiday, I'm not doubting he did the vast majority of what is claimed, but I'm doubting he was as care free through it all considering he was Britains most wanted man at the time.
Secondly, The book sometimes loses sight of the fact that the person at the center of this was killed for no reason what so ever, it wasn't some gangland type murder, it was an innocent person killed in an argument on the side of the road by a person he didn't know prior to the incident.
That being said, I can't lie; I couldn't put it down and speeded right through. The final few chapters are particularly powerful. A good read.
I had two main issues with this book. For starters, I highly suspect Noye is something of a 'unreliable narrator' at times, often painting a picture of his time on the run being a James Bond like spree with his luxury hotels and women, he almost makes it sound like it was one big holiday, I'm not doubting he did the vast majority of what is claimed, but I'm doubting he was as care free through it all considering he was Britains most wanted man at the time.
Secondly, The book sometimes loses sight of the fact that the person at the center of this was killed for no reason what so ever, it wasn't some gangland type murder, it was an innocent person killed in an argument on the side of the road by a person he didn't know prior to the incident.
That being said, I can't lie; I couldn't put it down and speeded right through. The final few chapters are particularly powerful. A good read.
January 4, 2024
Read this in 24 hours. I had not seen the film but had obviously heard of Kenneth Noye. I did not realise he spent a third of his life in jail. There was a lot to process in reading this book like the police corruption, how easy it was to get false passports and travel the world as a wanted criminal. Obviously he had millions behind him from the Brinks-Mat gold bullion raid and I am left wondering how this money followed him around the world.
Ken deserved to be jailed for killing Stephen Cameron but he actually served 6 years more than he should have done and he was told he would be charged with manslaughter not murder.
Throughout this story there are corrupt police, false statements and lies. The final chapters are perhaps the most revealing where the estranged wife of a major witness contacted the court and said that everything her husband told the court was complete lies about what he saw and about his own past. This new evidence was not taken into account.
Ken deserved to be jailed for killing Stephen Cameron but he actually served 6 years more than he should have done and he was told he would be charged with manslaughter not murder.
Throughout this story there are corrupt police, false statements and lies. The final chapters are perhaps the most revealing where the estranged wife of a major witness contacted the court and said that everything her husband told the court was complete lies about what he saw and about his own past. This new evidence was not taken into account.
March 10, 2026
Brilliant. Well researched, well written, well read!
Intriguing and fascinating throughout.
I lived through the times chronicled around Noye and what he did to poor Stephen Cameron so that fuelled my enjoyment. I read this in record time.
It is a well balanced account with no preferential treatment of Noye, Cameron or the cops, nothing glamourised just well researched facts. To be fair it didn’t need glamourising at it is fascinating throughout.
Intriguing and fascinating throughout.
I lived through the times chronicled around Noye and what he did to poor Stephen Cameron so that fuelled my enjoyment. I read this in record time.
It is a well balanced account with no preferential treatment of Noye, Cameron or the cops, nothing glamourised just well researched facts. To be fair it didn’t need glamourising at it is fascinating throughout.
June 17, 2025
Wasn’t really able to finish the book..
Am not sure what was particularly unique about the story? It felt like your usual fugitive kind of story..like a normal drama/action move but now in real life…
The end was particularly hard to get through also
Am not sure what was particularly unique about the story? It felt like your usual fugitive kind of story..like a normal drama/action move but now in real life…
The end was particularly hard to get through also
April 30, 2026
Gripping Read....
...well-written chronological story (with excellent deviations) before and after, that tells the tale of the tragic and unnecessary loss of life of Stephen Cameron (also goes into the killing of John Fordham). Insightful and in some ways surprising. A great book.
...well-written chronological story (with excellent deviations) before and after, that tells the tale of the tragic and unnecessary loss of life of Stephen Cameron (also goes into the killing of John Fordham). Insightful and in some ways surprising. A great book.
July 14, 2024
Very interesting and well told story, filled with sadness on all sides at the outcomes everyone had to deal with. An intriguing close up telling and insight into the underworld of crime
March 13, 2025
Loved it👌🏻. Wicked book and gets Kenny Noyes side of things with interviews etc. really suprised me how good this book was as “ public enemy No1 “ written years ago was great 👌🏻.
January 18, 2024
Very good read. Shows up the inner workings of the police service and its often corrupt relationship with the criminal underworld .
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