Big Stick-Up at Brink's! (ePub)
On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink's Armored Car building in Boston,...
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On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink's Armored Car building in Boston, Massachusetts. They walked out less than an hour later with more than $2.7 million in cash and securities. It was a brazen and expertly executed theft that captured the imaginations of millions of Americans and baffled the FBI and local law enforcement officials.
But what appeared on the surface to be the perfect crime was, in fact, the end result of a mind-boggling series of mistakes, miscalculations, and missteps. The men behind the masks were not expert bank robbers but a motley crew of small-time crooks who bumbled their way into a record-breaking payday and managed to elude the long arm of the law for six years.
New York Times-bestselling author Noel Behn tape-recorded nearly one thousand hours of interviews with the surviving robbers, including motormouthed mastermind Tony Pino, a character so colorful he might have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter, to tell the uncensored story of the heist forever known as "the Great Brink's Robbery." Fun and suspenseful from first page to last, Behn's true-crime classic was the basis for The Brink's Job (1978), the Academy Award-nominated film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk and Peter Boyle.
- Autor: Noel Behn
- 2016, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504036646
- ISBN-13: 9781504036641
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2016
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- Größe: 4.16 MB
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“A King Kong of crime entertainment . . . that no movie could match . . . The Brink’s job [was] a kind of D-Day event in the annals of crime . . . Glorious.” —Kirkus Reviews
“One minute you’re laughing your head off. The next minute you chill with fear. Crooks and crime at their best. Pure magic!” —Harold Robbins
“The best book about criminals ever written, a rich and beautiful depiction of their lives as well as their work, a book that elevates them from moving-picture types to complete, vivid humans. Noel Behn has taken one of the most extraordinary crimes of the century and turned it into a living tapestry. It’s a wonderful book.” —Paddy Chayefsky, Academy Award–winning screenwriter of Network
“Reads like a Hollywood screenplay, except that it really happened.” —John Barkham Reviews
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