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

Swierczynski, Duane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028643445 ISBN 13: 9780028643441

Publisher: Imprint Unknown, 2002

Synopsis

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 up until today. Additional chapters will include a rundown of the 100 biggest hauls in bank robbing history; another chapter will feature what you should do if you find yourself in a bank that's being robbed; still another chapter will chronicle the 25 oddest bank robberies in history. The book will be written in a breezy, irreverent, and often humorous style and will have much in common with such bestsellers as The World's Dumbest Criminals and The Worst Case Scenario books.

About this title

About the Author:

Duane Swierczynski is a senior editor at Philadelphia Magazine. He has written and edited for such magazines as Details, Maxim, Men's Health, The New York Post, and George Magazine. His first book, Have You Seen This Man? The Encyclopedia of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List will be published by Checkmark Books in 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Imprint Unknown
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0028643445
• ISBN 13: 9780028643441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312