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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber Julian Rubinstein

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber By Julian Rubinstein

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein


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Summary

The true story of bank heists, ice hockey, Transylvanian pelt smuggling, moonlighting detectives, and broken hearts.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber Summary

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein

Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief from Transylvania, 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 officer 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...

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber Reviews

'Julian Rubinstein has tracked down and written a great crime story: very funny, heart-breaking, gripping, incredible...Any novelist making this up would be duly executed' - Arthur Phillips, author of Prague 'Vivid and riveting...This is a grand thriller, perhaps the first of a genre' - Andrei Codrescu, author of Wakefield.

About Julian Rubinstein

Julian Rubinstein is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated. This is his first book.

Additional information

GOR003915693
9780316010733
0316010731
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown & Company
2005-08-26
304
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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