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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Paperback, New edition)
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R457
Loot Price R430
Discovery Miles 4 300
You Save R27 (6%)
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DESCRIPTION: Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild,
improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Budapest. 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. 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 Rubinsteins bizarre crime story
is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible.
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