Daniel Simone
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English
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New York City, 1972. Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. With the blessing of the Lucchese Crime Family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel-host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy. Attired in tuxedoes and driven in a limousine, this band of thieves arrived at the Pierre, seized the security guards and,...
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The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked on before his 2012 death. On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history,...
3) The Pierre Hotel affair: how eight gentlemen thieves orchestrated the largest jewel heist in history
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the true story of the largest jewel theft in history by highly skilled thieves who orchestrated an elaborate plot to rob New York's Pierre Hotel with the blessing and assistance of the Lucchese crime family.
"The startling and sensational true story of the most famous unsolved heist in American history: the theft of $28 million in jewels from the Pierre Hotel. New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the true story of the largest jewel theft in history by highly skilled thieves who orchestrated an elaborate plot to rob New York's Pierre Hotel with the blessing and assistance of the Lucchese crime family.
6) The Pierre Hotel Affair: How Eight Gentleman Thieves Orchestrated the Largest Jewel Heist in History
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Language
English
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New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren's suite, relieving the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel-host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy. Attired in tuxedos and driven...
9) Deuces down
Series
Wild cards volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Expanded edition, First Tor edition.
Language
English
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"In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon landing, when the world wasn't watching; Walter Simons' Great...
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