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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transyl,
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- Title
- Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice H
- ISBN
- 9780719563041
- EAN
- 9780719563041
- Book Title
- The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 25mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- True Crime, Criminology
- Item Width
- 154mm
- Item Weight
- 468g
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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After escaping grim Romania for more liberal Hungary in the late '80s Attila Ambrus found that living on his wits wasn't getting him very far. Becoming goalie/janitor for a third-division ice hockey team brought no fortune and little glory: he was the least successful player in the country's least successful squad. His moneymaking ruses -- fur smuggling, gravedigging, roulette -- fared little better. Then a night of whiskey drinking led him to holding a bank up with a plastic gun while wearing a fright wig -- and the Robin Hood of Eastern Europe was born.This is the extraordinary tale of 29 robberies as cackhandedly conducted by Attila and his ice-hockey henchmen as they were investigated by Lajos Varju, the Iron Curtain's answer to Inspector Clouseau. Varju's inspiration is Columbo; he is assisted by a ballet-teacher forensics expert who wears a top hat and tails on the job. Thus for 27 of his heists Attila gets away -- and after a jail breakout still manages a couple more.Stories abound of Eastern Europe slipping off its communist skin and slipping on leopard-skin hotpants, but it's a story like this that really screws in the lightbulbs.In Julian Rubinstein's tale anti-hero Attila is immortalized as the most charming outlaw since the Sundance Kid, and we're all invited to his zany party.
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John Murray Press
ISBN-13
9780719563041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime, Criminology
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Item Height
25mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
468g
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United Kingdom
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Ehh, delivery a little late from estimated but everything else was perfect.
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