Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie - a society architect and ladies' man whose double life as the nation's most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the King of the Bank Robbers. "The New York Times" proclaimed the 1878 heist the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country. An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, "King of Heists" blends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-59921-538-9 (9781599215389)
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J. North Conway is the author of six nonfiction books, including American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our Culture and Ourselves. He lives in Assonet, Massachusetts.
