Where the Money Is
Title | Where the Money Is PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Rehder |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393325751 |
In a fast-paced, hard-edged style that reads like a novel, FBI special agent Rehder chronicles the lives and crimes of bank robbers in today's Los Angeles who are as colorful and exciting as the legends of long ago.
Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World
Title | Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Dillow |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004-07-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393246795 |
"With the style and pacing of a good novel...should become a standard in the genre."—Publishers Weekly FBI Special Agent William J. Rehder, the man CBS News once described as "America's secret weapon in the war against bank robbers," chronicles the lives and crimes of bank robbers in today's Los Angeles who are as colorful and exciting as the legends of long ago. The mild-mannered antiques dealer who robbed more banks than anyone else in history. The modern Fagin who took a page out of Dickens and had children rob banks for him. The misfit bodybuilders who used a movie as a blueprint for a spree of violent robberies. In a fast-paced, hard-edged style that reads like a novel, Where the Money Is carries us through these stories and more—all within a pistol shot of Hollywood, all true-life tales as vivid as anything on the big screen.
King of Heists
Title | King of Heists PDF eBook |
Author | J. North Conway |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0762766808 |
ANOTHER TRUE CRIME STORY FROM J. NORTH CONWAY—NOW IN PAPERBACK! The riveting story of one of America’s most notorious crimes and the mysterious man behind it “Engrossing. . . . Conway skillfully paints a backdrop of fierce and flamboyant personalities who paraded across the Gilded Age. . . . [H]e capably recounts his story against a background of glitter and greed.” —Publishers Weekly “A page-turning account of one of the most brazen crimes of our time.” —Reader’s Digest “Conway, a college prof and ex-newspaper man, covers this ancient tale in a way that makes it feel like a hot news story.” —New York Post King of Heistsis a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities—around $50 million in today’s terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie—a society architect and ladies’ man whose double life as the nation’s most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the “King of the Bank Robbers.” An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, King of Heistsblends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.
Where the Money Was
Title | Where the Money Was PDF eBook |
Author | Willie Sutton |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2004-03-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0767918134 |
The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America’s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.
The Writers Directory 2008
Title | The Writers Directory 2008 PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Kazensky |
Publisher | Saint James Press |
Pages | 1286 |
Release | 2007-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781558626003 |
Features bibliographical, biographical and contact information for living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information and a bibliography.
The Writers Directory
Title | The Writers Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Authors, American |
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The Publishers Weekly
Title | The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 966 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | American literature |
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