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...bringing life to this rather threadbare theme, Renek is spare, painful and hilariously funny. Heck's bank heist, his hair-raising rooftop and back-alley escape, not to mention a rollicking love scene with Lola in a huge beer vat, unroll with a vitality that can only be de scribed as up-to-date Dickensian. For Heck, the future is ambiguous. But Renek's account of his hero's battle with the dehumanizing forces of modern cit ies is a small but notable literary victory...
...Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson would have called it. But although policemen could actually hear the real-life heist taking place over a ham operator's receiver, they took nearly 36 hours to locate the scene of the crime. By then, the thieves had made off with at least $500,000 in valuables...
...Connery). But Duke is persuasive, the take promises to be in the millions, and what the hell, Pat misses the glorious game of cops and robbers. So he gives the green light and the dirty sport begins, with a Fifth Avenue luxury apartment house as the scene of the heist...
...lifetime of crime, Willie ("the Actor") Sutton robbed banks of almost $2,000,000 and went through more disguises than the Scarlet Pimpernel. During the course of one bank heist or another, Sutton, 69, who served 35 years in prison before being paroled last Christmas Eve, popped up in a variety of roles that included a policeman, a window washer, a bank guard and a Western Union messenger. Last week the Actor was at it again -this time with star billing in a television commercial for Connecticut's New Britain Bank & Trust...
Less than a year after its inception, strange stories began to filter out about the LNS itself: predictable ideological splits, internal dissension, and finally, a bizarre heist in which one faction stole all the organization's equipment from its office and moved it to a farm in Massachusetts. Then there were...