This Here's a Stick-Up The Big Bad Book of American Bank Robbery

Name: This Here's a Stick-Up The Big Bad Book of American Bank Robbery
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ISBN: 9780028643441

ISBN-10: 0028643445

ISBN-13: 9780028643441

Edition: 2002

Authors: Duane Swierczynski

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This Here's a Stick Up covers the history of bank robbing in America, from the days of the old West gunslingers like Jesse James and the Dalton Gang, to the infamous bank robbers of the Great Depression (Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson) to the infamous Stopwatch Gang, who ripped off a series of Los Angeles banks wearing masks of U.S. presidents. (Their exploits were portrayed in the Keanu Reeves moviePoint Break). From the first heister to scribble a demand note to the first cyber criminal to pull off a heist using a laptop and a modem, this book will have it all, and then some. Author Duane Swierczynski will be utilizing information culled from actual FBI files from the 1930s…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




The Men Behind the Masks



The Carpenters' Hall Heisters



Edward Smith



Edward W. Green



The James Gang



The Reno Brothers Gang



George Leonidas Leslie



Johnny Dobbs



The Dalton Gang



The Bill Doolin Gang



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid



Adam Worth



Henry Starr



John Ashley and the Everglades Gang



Herman the Baron Lamm



The Newton Boys



Harvey Bailey



Wilbur Underhill



Bonnie and Clyde



John Dillinger



Pretty Boy Floyd



Baby Face Nelson



Machine Gun Kelly



Eddie Bentz



The Barker-Karpis Gang



Willie Sutton



William Liebscher



Bobby Wilcoxson and Al Nussbaum



Patty Hearst



Stanley Rifkin



The Cops Who Were Robbers



The Boys



Dougherty and Conner



Patrick Paddy Mitchell



Vladimir Levin



Hollywood Scurlock



The North Hollywood Gunmen



The Trench Coat Robbers



The Average Joe Bandit



Pritchert and Guthrie



The World Trade Center Heisters



A Treasury of Bank Heists



How to Rob Banks in Three Easy Lessons



Casing the Joint



Shut Up and Live



Hurry Up! It's the Law



Meet the Goldilocks Bandit



Reservoir Dorks



All About the Benjamins



The Naked Cities



Let's Book 'Em



Repeat Offenders



Appendixes


The Stick-tionary


The Hard Numbers


This Here's a Bibliography


Index