To be reviewed in the October print issue of Professional Security magazine – Peckham Boy: The life and times of the world’s greatest safe cracker, is the story of safe engineer Roy Saunders, told by his friend and safe industry figure Mike Palmer. He writes:
When you open the door to a legitimate safe engineer you do so with a unique understanding that you have total trust in his honesty and integrity. You recognise that by the time his job is done, he is going to know what you have, where you keep it and more importantly, how to get at it. It is remarkable that this trust is so seldom violated.
Roy Saunders was said by many to have been the world’s greatest safe cracker, a claim that he would certainly be in no hurry to dispel. Yet a single act of bravery; a spontaneous moment of heroism, began a chain of events that would lead this otherwise honest man finding himself in the dead of night, standing on the roof of one of the world’s most famous jewellers, preparing to cross the line into criminality.
During a series of interviews conducted over a period of more than a year, Roy Saunders tells the story of his remarkable life – now available through Lulu Publishing at – www.lulu.com .
