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Sto caricando le informazioni... Under the Streets of Nice (1978)di Ken Follett, René Louis Maurice, Rene Maurice, Rene Louis Maurice
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Eine Nachbetrachtung vom mutmaßlich größten Bankeinbruch aller Zeiten in Nizza. ( ) This has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a while, and until I picked it up to read, I never realized it was non-fiction. I can’t say that the book is particularly exciting, and I’m not sure how much of that is actually attributable to Follett. I believe much of the story is translated from an earlier French work (see his take on it at http://ken-follett.com/bibliography/the_heist_of_the_century/ — he even tried to prevent it from being published!). But though the storytelling isn’t very compelling, I found that the circumstances of the robbery were. It really was quite an ingenious plan, and if everyone involved was as smart as Spaggiari, they probably would have gotten away with it completely. En "faktaroman" om en av historiens största bankrån, då det exklusiva Société Générale i Nice blev av med omkring 100 miljoner francs. Boken är snarare ett sliskigt journalistisk grävande i händelsen, varvat med en slags dramatiseringar av delar av rånet (det är väl här Ken Follett kom in i bilden). Uförandet av själva rånet är fascinerande i sig, men författarnas ton är ofta nedlåtande och drypande av fördomar i sämsta kvällstidningsstil. Beundrare av Follett kan med fördel undvika detta lågvattenmärke från hans tidiga karriär (1978). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML: Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century-a 1976 bank heist accomplished, as a note left in the empty vault said, "Without guns, without violence, without hate". He and his 20 men had dug a 25 foot tunnel from the city sewer system into the back, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine and clearing out a total of $8 to $10 million in gold, jewelry, gems and cash reserves. Tracked down and captured, Spaggiari escaped from the French gendarmes by leaping out a magistrate's window and onto the back of a motorcycle. Convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison, he retired to a ranch in Argentina-purchased, according to his memoirs, with the proceeds from the robbery. He taunted police for more than a decade until his mysterious death in 1989, which made him international headlines once again. The loot was never recovered. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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