Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts Yearbooks & Annuals full-page piece of art

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ISBN13: 9780962634635 ISBN10: 0962634638 Material Type: paperback

ISBN13: 9780395955635 ISBN10: 0395955637 Material Type: hardcover

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts Yearbooks & Annuals full-page piece of artAn 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