The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang (Kindle Single)

The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang (Kindle Single)

They were in and out in less than two minutesâ€”thatâ€™s how they got away with millions. And for the duration of their reign, no bank robbers were more feared (though they never fired their guns) nor more pursued or more mythologized than the Stopwatch Gang. The members themselves were straight out of central casting: Lionel Wright, a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people; Paddy Mitchell, a charming and well-connected crook who saw an angle in everything and would go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away; and Stephen Reid, a fearless point man who could find the weakness in any system and whose storyâ€”of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fameâ€”was all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace.

In The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang, Josh Dean reconstructs the Gangâ€™s glory days and reveals how the real story, pieced together through months of research and reporting most prominently with Reid himself, as he comes to the end, at age 64, of his final days in the custody of the stateâ€”is more remarkable than the myth that has long been told.
Country USA
Manufacturer The Atavist
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-01
Format Kindle eBook

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