'A hell of a story from a hell of a storyteller' Daily Mail 'Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched' Washington Post 1970, Boston, and a daring attack on an armoured transport delivering money to a bank, catches Massachusetts law enforcement napping. While the police are still trying to figure out where this new and coldly efficient gang sprang from, more dazzling heists follow - each one meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed. It soon becomes clear these are no ordinary ...
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'A hell of a story from a hell of a storyteller' Daily Mail 'Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched' Washington Post 1970, Boston, and a daring attack on an armoured transport delivering money to a bank, catches Massachusetts law enforcement napping. While the police are still trying to figure out where this new and coldly efficient gang sprang from, more dazzling heists follow - each one meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed. It soon becomes clear these are no ordinary criminals, but as one of the cops assigned to the case figures, 'longhairs that got bored with protesting the war and branched out.' Faced with a tight-knit cell of urban revolutionaries led by a charismatic intellectual with no compunction about killing for the cause, the authorities seem powerless to stop them. Unless they step outside the law themselves...
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Good in Good jacket. GC. Andre Deutsch, 1987. First edition-first printing. Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nicks on the edges of the cover) with laminated Dj cover(some creases and nicks on the laminated cover), both in GC. Ex-Library book with stamps, pocket. Clean pages with a couple ink marks, nick and tainted on the outer edges, some large creases on the edges of the pages, small marks on some pages. The book is in GC with some shelf wear. Price un-clipped.360pp.
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jimpickens
Jun 2, 2011
Better than Friends of Eddie Coyle
Very Technically accurate book that follows a decade long series of armored car robberies by a group of leftover 60s radicals that ends in a bloody massacre in Boston and follows the aftermath and the impact that it has on their families if you like George V Higgins's other books or just like a good crime novel you'll love Outlaws.
