The Last Good Heist

Informationen zum Autor By Wayne Worcester; Randall Richard and Tim White Klappentext On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight. It's one thing for authorities to admit they didn't find a trace of goods worth from $3 million to $4 million, and entirely another when what was at stake was more accurately valued at about $30 million, the equivalent of $120 million today. It was the biggest single payday in the criminal history of the Northeast. Nobody came close, not the infamous James "Whitey" Bulger, not John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, not even the Brinks or Wells Fargo robbers. The heist was bold enough and big enough to rock the underworld to its core, and it left La Cosa Nostra in the region awash in turmoil that still reverberates more than forty years later. Last Good Heist is the inside story of the robbery and its aftermath. Zusammenfassung A compelling and entertaining look at organized crime in Rhode Island in the 1970s.

Product details

• Authors: Randall Richard, Richard Randall, Wayne Worcester, Tim White, Tim Worcester White, White Tim, Wayne Worcester, Wayne C. Worcester, Wayne Richard Worcester, Worcester Wayne
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781493009596
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-0959-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Globe Pequot
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, True Crime, Rhode Island, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Organized crime, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980