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New. New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards 208 p Audience: General/trade From Booklist How many of us fantasize about looking down one day and finding there at our feet a bag full of money? That really occurred 20 years ago to a young man named Joey Coyle, a deadbeat longshoreman in South Philadelphia A couple of bags of money--$12 million in unmarked hundreds--fell off an armored security truck, and Joey just happened along and discovered it The seven days of Joey's incredible adventure--until he got caught, that is--are recounted by the author of, among other best-sellers, Black Hawk Down (1999) This book initially ran as a three-part serial in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine in 1986 Bowden's easy journalistic style lets the story basically tell itself, as the portrait emerges of a man who just did not have the resources to pull off a successful scam Joey was acquitted of any crime because the jury found him temporarily insane as th.