Author: Clive F Sorrell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524680656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Young Gerald Latimer tragically loses his father and then loses his job to a robot. To end this losing streak and raise 23,000.70p to place his dotty mother in a care home, he resorts to drug making. This fails disastrously when his friends greenhouse explodes. Gerald then agrees to rob a bank with an amateurish plan that also fails and given so little time to pay the care home fee, he is talked into a burglary. This results in the theft of a priceless item from a bent high court judge that no fence would ever consider handling. When nasty underworld characters learn of Geralds ill-gotten gain, he goes on the run with his cocaine-addicted friend and an attractive bank teller who had fallen for him. A deadly chase by the thugs and the police culminates in a surprise ending.
The Sad-Faced Bank Robber
Author: Clive F Sorrell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524680656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Young Gerald Latimer tragically loses his father and then loses his job to a robot. To end this losing streak and raise 23,000.70p to place his dotty mother in a care home, he resorts to drug making. This fails disastrously when his friends greenhouse explodes. Gerald then agrees to rob a bank with an amateurish plan that also fails and given so little time to pay the care home fee, he is talked into a burglary. This results in the theft of a priceless item from a bent high court judge that no fence would ever consider handling. When nasty underworld characters learn of Geralds ill-gotten gain, he goes on the run with his cocaine-addicted friend and an attractive bank teller who had fallen for him. A deadly chase by the thugs and the police culminates in a surprise ending.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524680656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Young Gerald Latimer tragically loses his father and then loses his job to a robot. To end this losing streak and raise 23,000.70p to place his dotty mother in a care home, he resorts to drug making. This fails disastrously when his friends greenhouse explodes. Gerald then agrees to rob a bank with an amateurish plan that also fails and given so little time to pay the care home fee, he is talked into a burglary. This results in the theft of a priceless item from a bent high court judge that no fence would ever consider handling. When nasty underworld characters learn of Geralds ill-gotten gain, he goes on the run with his cocaine-addicted friend and an attractive bank teller who had fallen for him. A deadly chase by the thugs and the police culminates in a surprise ending.
Superthief
Author: Rick Porrello
Publisher: Next Hat Press
ISBN: 0966250850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Superthief is a captivating first-hand look at the life of Phil Christopher, a career criminal, Mafia associate, and one of the most successful bank burglars in the United States. In a raw and candid accounting, Rick Porrello takes his readers inside Phil's brutal street world and prison life and exposes the details behind the planning and execution of the daring and record-setting 1972 United California Bank burglary in Orange County, California.
Publisher: Next Hat Press
ISBN: 0966250850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Superthief is a captivating first-hand look at the life of Phil Christopher, a career criminal, Mafia associate, and one of the most successful bank burglars in the United States. In a raw and candid accounting, Rick Porrello takes his readers inside Phil's brutal street world and prison life and exposes the details behind the planning and execution of the daring and record-setting 1972 United California Bank burglary in Orange County, California.
Bank Robber
Author: Allan Heyl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776092895
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Five bank robberies. Fifteen years in jail. That was the sentence handed down to Allan Heyl in 1977. He was 26 years old and couldn't face that many years behind bars. And then he got lucky. Into the prison walked André Stander, ex-cop and bank robber - an outlaw through and through. 'We're going to get out of here,' said Stander. 'We're going to rob banks.' And that is exactly what they did. In this fast-paced, no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled memoir, Heyl exposes the hell of prison life, revels in the sheer gung-ho audacity of robbing banks, and reveals an inept and incompetent police force. As a member of the notorious 'Stander Gang', which both appalled and enthralled South Africans in the late '70s and early '80s, Allan became a career criminal. But this choice of lifestyle had its consequences ... With humour, insight and self-revelation, the last surviving member of the so-called Stander Gang turns a critical eye on himself and the times in which he operated. This book takes you into the heart of a bank robber.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776092895
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Five bank robberies. Fifteen years in jail. That was the sentence handed down to Allan Heyl in 1977. He was 26 years old and couldn't face that many years behind bars. And then he got lucky. Into the prison walked André Stander, ex-cop and bank robber - an outlaw through and through. 'We're going to get out of here,' said Stander. 'We're going to rob banks.' And that is exactly what they did. In this fast-paced, no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled memoir, Heyl exposes the hell of prison life, revels in the sheer gung-ho audacity of robbing banks, and reveals an inept and incompetent police force. As a member of the notorious 'Stander Gang', which both appalled and enthralled South Africans in the late '70s and early '80s, Allan became a career criminal. But this choice of lifestyle had its consequences ... With humour, insight and self-revelation, the last surviving member of the so-called Stander Gang turns a critical eye on himself and the times in which he operated. This book takes you into the heart of a bank robber.
Wanted
Author: Dane Batty
Publisher: Nish Publishing Company
ISBN: 0615268455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"What do you think of when you hear about someone on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Hardened criminals, without morals or any sense of right and wrong, ready to solve a dispute with a gun, right? But what if things weren't that cut and dried? What if the nice guy you hired to hook up your cable was Number Seven on the FBI's list? Les Rogge looks and acts just like your next-door neighbor. Yet in twenty years he robbed more than 30 banks without firing a shot. Caught and put in jail twice, he escaped - and went sailing around the Caribbean with his wife and dog! In Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals, Les details his adventures from Alaska to Antigua, the Chesapeake to Cancun. But it all came to a halt when a fourteen-year-old in Guatemala forced him to turn himself in. Few felons have been as forthcoming about their successes, failures, robbery techniques, passion for sailing vessels... and love for his wife." --Publisher's website.
Publisher: Nish Publishing Company
ISBN: 0615268455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"What do you think of when you hear about someone on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Hardened criminals, without morals or any sense of right and wrong, ready to solve a dispute with a gun, right? But what if things weren't that cut and dried? What if the nice guy you hired to hook up your cable was Number Seven on the FBI's list? Les Rogge looks and acts just like your next-door neighbor. Yet in twenty years he robbed more than 30 banks without firing a shot. Caught and put in jail twice, he escaped - and went sailing around the Caribbean with his wife and dog! In Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals, Les details his adventures from Alaska to Antigua, the Chesapeake to Cancun. But it all came to a halt when a fourteen-year-old in Guatemala forced him to turn himself in. Few felons have been as forthcoming about their successes, failures, robbery techniques, passion for sailing vessels... and love for his wife." --Publisher's website.
Law Man
Author: Shon Hopwood
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307887839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Traces how the author, a Navy veteran, committed five bank robberies and spent years in prison before he rallied with the support of family and friends and learned savvy legal skills, allowing him to build a promising life as a free man.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307887839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Traces how the author, a Navy veteran, committed five bank robberies and spent years in prison before he rallied with the support of family and friends and learned savvy legal skills, allowing him to build a promising life as a free man.
The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery
Author: Ronald Chase
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608933628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On November 12, 1971, Bernard Patterson, a much decorated Vietnam War hero, turned a real-life version of Don Quixote, Butch Cassidy, and Robin Hood all rolled into one package, robbed the Northern National Bank in Mars Hill, Maine. He escaped with $110,000; at the time, the largest bank robbery in the history of the state. A tunnel rat and paratrooper in Vietnam who rose to the rank of Sergeant, he was awarded four bronze stars and recommended for a silver star for valor. He returned home to northern Maine broke and disillusioned. Wearing dark glasses, dressed in a Marx Brother’s ankle length coat and wearing a blue wig, he robbed the bank, even though he was recognized by the elderly teller. He initially escaped by paddling a rubber raft down the Prestile Stream. This was the beginning of a comic, outrageous, implausible journey that took him across the United States, then to Europe and North Africa before finally surrendering to authorities in Scotland Yard after he had spent most of the money. Along the way, he lived a raucous life of wine and women while hobnobbing in aristocratic hangouts and giving money to those he perceived to be in need; all the time staying just a heartbeat ahead of law enforcement officials. He motor biked across Europe, hoodwinked border officials, bought a camel and got lost in the North African desert. Returned to the United States for prosecution, he was convicted and imprisoned. Released several years later, he moved back to northern Maine, where he continued to lead a reckless life that included running a “pot farm,” until he died at age 56 in 2003. When asked by a friend why he had robbed the bank, he responded, “the VA wouldn’t give me a loan, so I decided to take one out on my own.”
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608933628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On November 12, 1971, Bernard Patterson, a much decorated Vietnam War hero, turned a real-life version of Don Quixote, Butch Cassidy, and Robin Hood all rolled into one package, robbed the Northern National Bank in Mars Hill, Maine. He escaped with $110,000; at the time, the largest bank robbery in the history of the state. A tunnel rat and paratrooper in Vietnam who rose to the rank of Sergeant, he was awarded four bronze stars and recommended for a silver star for valor. He returned home to northern Maine broke and disillusioned. Wearing dark glasses, dressed in a Marx Brother’s ankle length coat and wearing a blue wig, he robbed the bank, even though he was recognized by the elderly teller. He initially escaped by paddling a rubber raft down the Prestile Stream. This was the beginning of a comic, outrageous, implausible journey that took him across the United States, then to Europe and North Africa before finally surrendering to authorities in Scotland Yard after he had spent most of the money. Along the way, he lived a raucous life of wine and women while hobnobbing in aristocratic hangouts and giving money to those he perceived to be in need; all the time staying just a heartbeat ahead of law enforcement officials. He motor biked across Europe, hoodwinked border officials, bought a camel and got lost in the North African desert. Returned to the United States for prosecution, he was convicted and imprisoned. Released several years later, he moved back to northern Maine, where he continued to lead a reckless life that included running a “pot farm,” until he died at age 56 in 2003. When asked by a friend why he had robbed the bank, he responded, “the VA wouldn’t give me a loan, so I decided to take one out on my own.”
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Author: Julian Rubinstein
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316028282
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316028282
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon
The Collected Works of Cleveland Moffett
Author: Cleveland Moffett
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026895444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Cleveland Moffett" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Detective & True Crime Through the Wall (A Novel) The Northampton Bank Robbery The Susquehanna Express Robbery The Pollock Diamond Robbery The Rock Island Express The Destruction of the Renos The American Exchange Bank Robbery Supernatural Tales The Mysterious Card The Mysterious Card Unveiled (Sequel) Speculative War & Invasion Novels The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory Possessed Non-Fiction Careers of Danger and Daring Into the Crater of a Volcano Consider the Moving Staircase Envy—A New Poison
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026895444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Cleveland Moffett" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Detective & True Crime Through the Wall (A Novel) The Northampton Bank Robbery The Susquehanna Express Robbery The Pollock Diamond Robbery The Rock Island Express The Destruction of the Renos The American Exchange Bank Robbery Supernatural Tales The Mysterious Card The Mysterious Card Unveiled (Sequel) Speculative War & Invasion Novels The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory Possessed Non-Fiction Careers of Danger and Daring Into the Crater of a Volcano Consider the Moving Staircase Envy—A New Poison
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307271749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Thomson (independent scholar), writing of The Biographical Dictionary of Film (aka A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, 1975 edition), described it as "a personal, opinionated, and obsessive biographical dictionary of the cinema." Thirty-five years and several editions later, that description still holds true of this expanded work. The new dictionary summarizes salient facts about its subjects' lives and discusses their film credits in terms of the quality of the filmmakers' work. In ambition it has competitors, including Leslie Halliwell's various editions of Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion (12th ed., 1997) and Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, edited by John Walker (4th ed., rev. and updated, 2006), which cover films and technical terms (categories not included in Thomson's), but whose entries are neutral and exceedingly brief. Additionally, Francophile Richard Roud's edited Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Filmmakers (2 v., 1980) is as passionate a work as Thomson's, but narrower in scope, with entries written by various experts, rather than only by Roud. Finally, the multivolume magnum opus The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed., 2000, ed. by T. Pendergast and S. Pendergast; 2nd ed., ed. by N. Thomas, v. 1, CH, May'91; 1st ed., ed. by C. Lyon, v.1-2, CH, Jan'85, v.3, CH, Apr'87, v.4-5, CH, Jun'88) covers everything--films, directors, actors, writers, and production artists--with generous, measured, scholarly entries and lavish illustrations. However, it looms large and heavy, unlike the handy one-volume work by Thomson. Arguably, Thomson's work, for its scope, is the most fun, the most convenient, and the most engaging title. All libraries supporting people interested in film should buy it. It will get lots of use and provide very good value for the money. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. Hendershott.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307271749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Thomson (independent scholar), writing of The Biographical Dictionary of Film (aka A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, 1975 edition), described it as "a personal, opinionated, and obsessive biographical dictionary of the cinema." Thirty-five years and several editions later, that description still holds true of this expanded work. The new dictionary summarizes salient facts about its subjects' lives and discusses their film credits in terms of the quality of the filmmakers' work. In ambition it has competitors, including Leslie Halliwell's various editions of Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion (12th ed., 1997) and Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, edited by John Walker (4th ed., rev. and updated, 2006), which cover films and technical terms (categories not included in Thomson's), but whose entries are neutral and exceedingly brief. Additionally, Francophile Richard Roud's edited Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Filmmakers (2 v., 1980) is as passionate a work as Thomson's, but narrower in scope, with entries written by various experts, rather than only by Roud. Finally, the multivolume magnum opus The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed., 2000, ed. by T. Pendergast and S. Pendergast; 2nd ed., ed. by N. Thomas, v. 1, CH, May'91; 1st ed., ed. by C. Lyon, v.1-2, CH, Jan'85, v.3, CH, Apr'87, v.4-5, CH, Jun'88) covers everything--films, directors, actors, writers, and production artists--with generous, measured, scholarly entries and lavish illustrations. However, it looms large and heavy, unlike the handy one-volume work by Thomson. Arguably, Thomson's work, for its scope, is the most fun, the most convenient, and the most engaging title. All libraries supporting people interested in film should buy it. It will get lots of use and provide very good value for the money. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. Hendershott.
La société face au crime
Author: Québec (Province). Commission d'enquête sur l'administration de la justice en matière criminelle et pénale
Publisher: Commission d'Enquête sur l'Administration de la JUstice en Matière Criminelle et Pénale au Québec
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher: Commission d'Enquête sur l'Administration de la JUstice en Matière Criminelle et Pénale au Québec
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description