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Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft
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Hide books by the same authorBallad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
Julian Rubinstein · 336 pages
Part Pink Panther, part Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, exuberantly praised book tells the story of Attila Ambrus, a professional hockey goalkeeper (possibly the worst in the sports history), gravedigger, roulette addict, whiskey drinker (with a fondness for women in leopard-skin hot pants), and native of Transylvania who became Hungarys celebrated gentlemen
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
Anthony M. Amore, Tom Mashberg · 256 pages
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Ben Mezrich · 308 pages
**Sex on the Moon** is the true story of Thad Roberts, a young Mormon geologist with an internship (a "co-op") at the Johnson Space Center, living his dream of doing work for NASA. He decides to steal several million dollars' worth of moon rocks; the title of the book describes one of his criminal motivations: his passion for his girlfriend. The actions of a rock hound from Antwerp who alerts the
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Noah Charney · 327 pages
Presents a history of the world's most pilfered masterpiece--Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Alterpiece," treasured for its central panel, "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb"--which has been looted in three wars, burned, forged, smuggled, hunted by the Nazis, and stolen thirteen times.
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
Barbara Bisantz Raymond · 313 pages
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer · 378 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history--the Ku Klux Klan. On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The yo
After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Marilyn J. Bardsley · 196 pages
A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder
Karen Spears Zacharias
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt · 393 pages
Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oa
Too Late to Say Goodbye
Ann Rule · 480 pages
Jenn Corbin was found dead early one morning by her young son,Dalton Corbin.She had died from a gunshot wound to the head and a gun lay next to her.It was initially presumed that she had committed suicide although the gun being partially covered under the bedcover raised some doubts with the investigating officer.To rule out a possible homicide an investigation was started.The husband Dr Bart Corb
Murder in Mississippi
John Safran · 384 pages
WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME *'Say, John Safran,' he says. 'Yes?' I say. 'I can get you killed from right behind this door, man. Real talk.' 'You can get me killed from behind your door?' 'Real talk,' he says. 'I can get your ass killed from behind this door, if you playin'.* Taking us places only John Safran can, *Murder in Mississippi* paints an engrossing, revealing p
All God's Children
Fox Butterfield · 389 pages
A startling examination of an American heritage of violence - a legacy from the pre-Revolutionary white rural South to today's urban America - that helps answer the question of how America became so violent. The tradition is reflected in the experiences of one black family, the Boskets, from the days of slavery to the present. This tragic family history culminates in the twentieth century with th
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · 314 pages
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich · 344 pages
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes--the moment she hears him speak of his crimes--she is overcome with the
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Nate Blakeslee · 450 pages
Lincoln's Grave Robbers
Steve Sheinkin · 214 pages
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Mara Leveritt · 432 pages
Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys,
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
Jerry Bledsoe · 520 pages
NC writer Jerry Bledsoe masterfully writes about some horrific murders that happened with one family in KY and Winston-Salem, NC. Murder, incest and politics, this true crime story has it all.
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks · 466 pages
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much
The Red Parts
Maggie Nelson · 224 pages
From the Publisher: One day in March 1969, twenty-three-year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents she was getting married. She had arranged for a ride through the campus bulletin board at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was one of a handful of pioneering women students at the law school. Her body was found the following morning just inside the gates of a small
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria