{"product_id":"golden-boy-of-crime-book-jim-brown-9781443450096","title":"The Golden Boy of Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Canada's Most Overrated Bank Robber\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Standing at the foot of the scantling . . . was a\u003cbr\u003e thick, freckle-faced man whose prison cap could not hide his flaming head. It\u003cbr\u003e was 'Red' Ryan.\" --Ernest Hemingway\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A malicious little bastard.\" --Ryan's childhood\u003cbr\u003e friend\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Norman Ryan is a vicious, dangerous and resourceful\u003cbr\u003e thief.\" --Toronto police chief S. J. Dickson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ryan is well liked in Kingston prison. A fine,\u003cbr\u003e handsome, clean-cut man, he stands out as a giant among the inmates.\" --Athol\u003cbr\u003e Gow, Toronto\u003cbr\u003e Star\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"We narrowly escaped meeting him. If we had, we fear\u003cbr\u003e we might, like nearly everybody else, have succumbed to his fatal charm.\" --J.\u003cbr\u003e V. MCAREE, The Globe and Mail\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I'm glad he is dead.\" --Senator H. A. Mullins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDubbed \"the Jesse James of Canada,\" Norman \"Red\"\u003cbr\u003e Ryan was infamous in the 1920s and '30s until he was gunned down in an\u003cbr\u003e attempted robbery in Sarnia, Ontario. Ernest Hemingway wrote about Ryan's\u003cbr\u003e escape from Kingston Penitentiary for the Toronto Star, Morley Callaghan based a novel on him,\u003cbr\u003e and stories of Ryan and his daring crimes filled newspapers and airwaves. One\u003cbr\u003e of the first Canadians to be granted parole, he was held up by Prime Minister\u003cbr\u003e R. B. Bennett as a model of rehabilitation and became a regular guest at\u003cbr\u003e Toronto police picnics. All the while, however, Ryan continued a crime spree on\u003cbr\u003e the side.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith skepticism, humour and an often scathing\u003cbr\u003e examination of his own profession, journalist Jim Brown tells the incredible\u003cbr\u003e story of \"Red\" Ryan, a larger-than-life criminal whose fame and legend were\u003cbr\u003e much encouraged by the media, leading to deadly results.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51331895394577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331898114321,"sku":"CIN144345009XVG","price":7.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52984348705041,"sku":"CIN144345009XG","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53031453851921,"sku":"NLS9781443450096","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53151551029521,"sku":"NIN9781443450096","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/144345009X.jpg?v=1751210148","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/golden-boy-of-crime-book-jim-brown-9781443450096","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}