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Ballad Of The Whiskey Robber (HB, 2004)

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 0316071676

Author: Julian Rubinstein

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: 2004

Edition: First

Number of Pages: 315

Language: English

Weight (gm): 580

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Book Condition / Grade: VG

Dust-jacket Condition / Grade: VG

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Description: Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. His opponents: a police chief who learned how to be a detective via dubbed episodes of Columbo; a deputy so dense he was known only by his Hungarian nickname, Mound of Asshead; and a forensics expert-cum-ballet teacher who wore a top hat and tails on the job.

Part Pink Panther, part The Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, award-winning book tells the remarkable story of a crime spree that galvanized a forlorn nation and made a nobody into a somebody a tale so outrageous that it could only be true.

--WINNER, Borders 2004 "Original Voices" Non-fiction Book of the Year.

--FINALIST, 2005 Edgar Award, Best Fact Crime.

--A New York Times "Editors' Choice"