True Crime and Punishment: Heists: Gripping Exposes of the World's Most Notorious Robberies
Joseph Cummins
Feb 2011 · Allen & Unwin
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Covering all manner of robberies, from the sack of a city (Panama in 1671), the attempt in 1876 to steal Abraham Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, to traditional tales of train robberies and audacious bank heists, Heists is a collection of amazing crime stories.
Beginning with the story of Henry Morgan, a charismatic Welshman who in the 1650s set out from England to the New World and over the next 20 years plundered the Caribbean, Heists takes in more than 300 years of bold attempts to run off with the loot. Some robberies netted a miserly amount - their efforts were hardly worth it when Jesse James and his bandits left Minnesota's First National Bank with a paltry $26.70 - while others were ambitious and well rewarded; Lee Murray and his gang left with a 'Thank you for the cooperation!' and a cool £53 million after the Securitas Robbery in 2006 in Tonbridge.
Sometimes it paid to risk everything for the 'tickle' - English slang for that big score that would provide an easy life and early retirement.
Other titles in this series:
Mutinies
Spy Stories
Imposters
Under Siege
Prison Islands
Beginning with the story of Henry Morgan, a charismatic Welshman who in the 1650s set out from England to the New World and over the next 20 years plundered the Caribbean, Heists takes in more than 300 years of bold attempts to run off with the loot. Some robberies netted a miserly amount - their efforts were hardly worth it when Jesse James and his bandits left Minnesota's First National Bank with a paltry $26.70 - while others were ambitious and well rewarded; Lee Murray and his gang left with a 'Thank you for the cooperation!' and a cool £53 million after the Securitas Robbery in 2006 in Tonbridge.
Sometimes it paid to risk everything for the 'tickle' - English slang for that big score that would provide an easy life and early retirement.
Other titles in this series:
Mutinies
Spy Stories
Imposters
Under Siege
Prison Islands
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July 13, 2024
I absolutely love this a lot and so much with all of this money and wealth that I'm completely so obsessed with it like crazy & I just love money, cash and dollar bills so much in this picture that I want to have me stacks of cash, piles of cash, mountains of cash, thousands of dollars, millions of dollars and even billions of dollars one day in real life so I can be a thousandnaire, a millionaire and a billionaire in life living in luxury, paradise and financial freedom with all of this cash around to play with this money have peace with this money & have good times with all of this money and cash right in my suitcase, briefcase, duffel bag, plastic bag, cardboard box, safe, table, bed, chair, floor, bathroom, backpack, clothes pockets stuffed with money, shirts stuffed with money, money belt, money truck, money gun, raining down dollar bills and cash everywhere, money machine and a wheelbarrow filled up with all of this cash and dollar bills
About the author
Joseph Cummins is the author of History's Great Untold Stories, History's Greatest Hits, Turn Around and Run Like Hell, Great Rivals in History, Cast Away, First Encounters and Eaten by a Giant Clam for Pier 9, as well as Anything for a Vote: A History of Dirty Tricks and October Surprises in America's Presidential Elections (Quirk). He has also edited two anthologies for Lyons Press, Cannibals: Shocking True Stories of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea (2002) and The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told (2001), and written a novel called The Show Train (Akashic Books, 2001). He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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