Fast Eddie - In 60 Seconds He Grabbed £1.2 Million. This is the True Story of the Cheekiest Heist Ever

2014-01-06 Social Science

Author : Mark Bulstrode
Release : 2014-01-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Fast Eddie - In 60 Seconds He Grabbed £1.2 Million. This is the True Story of the Cheekiest Heist Ever by : Mark Bulstrode

Download or read book Fast Eddie - In 60 Seconds He Grabbed £1.2 Million. This is the True Story of the Cheekiest Heist Ever written by Mark Bulstrode. This book was released on 2014-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Maher used to spend every day guarding big bags of someone else's cash. He'd always dreamed about the big house and the sporty car, and working for Securicor wasn't getting him anywhere fast. But all that was to change.The siren song of temptation proved too much. So one day 'Fast' Eddie Maher decided it was time to live the dream. He reached out his hand and grabbed the opportunity...in the form of ?1.2million cash in the back of a security van. The cheekiest of heist of all time had taken no longer than a minute.For a man on the run, American was the place to be. No one knew him and no one was looking for him, although that didn't stop him wearing a fake beard and outsize shades to hide his face. Eddie travelled all around the States living the outlaw life for 20 years. Colorado, Florida, Texas; he even married an air hostess in Las Vegas, the City of Sin. The USA was Eddie's playground.But fate is fickle and the easy living just wasn't meant to last. A quick Google search told Eddie's capricious daughter-in-law Jessica King all she needed to know about the strangely wealthy Mr Maher. Give up a wanted fugitive and net a ?100,000 reward? She didn't have to think twice. Eddie was jailed in March 2013 for 5 years, the forfeit for his outrageous roll of the dice.This is the true story of 'Fast' Eddie Maher, the man who dared and almost won.

Fast Eddie

2014 Fugitives from justice

Author : Mark Bulstrode
Release : 2014
Genre : Fugitives from justice
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Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fast Eddie written by Mark Bulstrode. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Crime.

Fast Eddie

2017-05-04 True Crime

Author : Eddie Maher
Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 376/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fast Eddie written by Eddie Maher. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9.30am on 22 January 1993. The moment in crime history that one of Britain's most audacious thefts ever took place and the legend of 'Fast Eddie' was created. This is the story of how Securicor guard Eddie Maher managed to pull off a £1.2 million heist, fled the country despite every port being closed, spawned an international manhunt, and managed to evade capture for 20 years. As Britain's Most Wanted Man, he led 30 detectives, FBI and Interpol on a wild goose chase across the USA. Dubbed 'Fast Eddie' by the press, he was always one step ahead and after two decades on the run with his family using a series of of aliases and identities, Eddie began to think he'd committed the perfect crime until a cruel and dramatic betrayal proved otherwise... Like a Hollywood movie script and told in full for the first time, Fast Eddie is the compelling story of how an ordinary British man became America's most notorious fugitive.

Heist

2015-08-04 True Crime

Author : Jeff Diamant
Release : 2015-08-04
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 175/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Heist written by Jeff Diamant. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration behind the major motion picture Masterminds starring Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, and Jason Sudeikis! The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American history. One night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million—literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. There's just one hitch: Ghantt has entrusted the money to an oddball crew of accomplices who had wooed him into committing this massive theft in the first place—and who, he soon learns, are trying to take him out. Now one of the most wanted men in America with the FBI hot on his heels, Ghantt must figure out how to get his money, get away from a hit man, and get even. In this outrageously entertaining book, Jeff Diamant, the Charlotte Observer's lead reporter on the case, offers the definitive inside account of this astonishing true story that has captivated American audiences on the news and now on the big screen in the major motion picture, Masterminds.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

2007-09-03 True Crime

Author : Julian Rubinstein
Release : 2007-09-03
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber written by Julian Rubinstein. This book was released on 2007-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon

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