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Lädt ... Big stick-up at Brink's!von Noel Behn
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A riveting and frequently hilarious insider account of one of the twentieth century's most outrageous capers. 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Behn does an amazing job of bringing each of the robbers to life and slowly piecing together the group and their idea to rob Brink's. Each man brought something unique to the group, and while the mastermind, Pino, was the key to it all, Behn makes the reader feel like it probably wouldn't have worked without each of the men involved. I found my laughing out loud at several points, especially most of the conversations any one had with Jazz Maffie. I would read a whole book just about that guy. Behn details how the heist came to be, from Pino tripping over the Brink's trucks in the wee hours of the morning, to finding the Brink's offices almost by chance, and then Pino finding the minimal, bordering on non-existent, levels of security at the Brink's vault. As a citizen of the United States, I am supposed to hope that all people who break the law are caught and punished appropriately, but by the end of BIG STICK UP AT BRINK'S, I was pulling for Pino, Maffie, and the rest of them to not only get away with the crime, but then be able to blend back into society and enjoy their success.
BIG STICK UP AT BRINK'S reads fast, fun, and exciting and I had a hard time putting it down, especially at the end. Behn tells the amazing story with panache and with a care that comes from someone who feels honored to writing this book. I would recommend this book to anyone and I look forward to reading another Behn book in the future!
Thank you to Open Road Intergrated Media and Netgalley for a copt of this book in exchange for an honest review! (