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Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber

The Broadway Books Library of Larceny

Luc Sante, General Editor

For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America's most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America's most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.

Subject
biography
Genre
crime
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
long · 464 pages

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