Where the Money Was

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The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante General Editor For more than fifty years Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second prisons. Unarguably America s most famous bank robber Willie never injured a soul but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth rascally and cautionary by turns yet true in every searing diverting and brilliantly recalled detail.