The Man Who Robbed the Pierre
The Story of Bobby Comfort
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Hoye
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Ira Berkow
About this listen
Bobby Comfort wanted to be a good something. He turned out to be a great criminal.
January 2, 1972: Men in tuxedos rob the Pierre, a New York hotel. They get away with $11 million worth of cash and jewelry. The police are baffled by how large-scale a heist could go off so smoothly. The answer was in the leader of the thieves, a man by the name of Bobby Comfort. Comfort took to crime from a young age, card sharping, petty theft, and eventually robbery. Taking money from the rich, though, was where he excelled. Like Robin Hood (only keeping the loot himself), Comfort masterminded what was, at the time, the most lucrative heist in history.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ira Berkow chronicles the crime, using first-hand accounts to weave together a ripping cops-and-robbers yarn, and a portrait of a truly American rogue.
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Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he’s willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn’t), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: Nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally on Audible...
- By shelley on 03-14-20
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Lay Your Sleeping Head
- The Henry Rios Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Michael Nava
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It
- By Leah Brock on 06-20-20
By: Michael Nava
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Blood Is Black
- By: Scott Pratt
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Presley Carter is a bright, hungry young defense attorney plying her trade in the areas in and around Nashville. Though she’s haunted by a horrifying event from her past, she’s achieved local renown as a savvy, resourceful lawyer adept at handling–and winning–tough cases. After being approached to file a clemency petition by a father whose son committed a gruesome double-murder, Presley reluctantly agrees to file the document, knowing full well the request has no chance of being granted. Then she receives a phone call informing her the convict’s release has been approved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blood is indeed black
- By Karen B. Jinks on 11-20-22
By: Scott Pratt
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The Dillinger Days
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 504
For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Must have been written by Hoover
- By Jimmy Oneal on 09-03-20
By: John Toland
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Suicide Hill
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4 out of 5 stars 176
In disgrace after a badly handled arrest in New Orleans, Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is assigned as a liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies. Three men have done their homework: they choose bank managers who are having affairs, kidnap their girlfriends, and force the managers to open the banks early.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Try this title for a change of pace
- By Robert on 04-19-16
By: James Ellroy
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- By: T. J. English
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 702
It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Anonymous User on 06-28-18
By: T. J. English
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The Last Godfather
- The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
- By: Simon Crittle
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand - until he got hit with a murder rap, and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story - a glimpse inside the world of organized crime that we may never see again.
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1 out of 5 stars
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the 6th family
- By chris torkelson on 05-16-20
By: Simon Crittle
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- By: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- By Russell on 07-21-17
By: Wayne Worcester, and others
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Because the Night
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime L.A. on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through Hell will plunge this determined manhunter into the dark heart of madness--and beyond.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A rough draft for better Noir that will come
- By Darwin8u on 08-18-18
By: James Ellroy
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- By: Paul Lieberman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- By KEITH on 02-21-13
By: Paul Lieberman
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New York Dead
- Stone Barrington, Book 1
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,022
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he’s too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country’s hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculous
- By laall on 11-11-13
By: Stuart Woods
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The Birthday Party
- A Memoir of Survival
- By: Stanley N. Alpert
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
On January 21, 1998, the night before his 38th birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of "gangsta" philosophy, sought his legal advice, and even offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Since there haven't been any SERIOUS...
- By Douglas on 04-30-15
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Men in Blue
- Badge of Honor, Book 1
- By: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrated by: Michael Russotto
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 610
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 538
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Story4 out of 5 stars 529
W.E.B. Griffin's best-selling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women behind the badge as you've never seen them before - their hopes and fears, their courage and heroism, sparked by a single, shocking event: The killing of a cop in the line of duty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tremendous Cop story with Mystery and some Romance
- By Bevs Mom on 10-08-12
By: W. E. B. Griffin
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Marked for Life
- One Man's Fight for Justice from the Inside
- By: Isaac Wright Jr., Jon Sternfeld - contributor
- Narrated by: Isaac Wright Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 30
An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Book!
- By JXL on 06-10-24
By: Isaac Wright Jr., and others
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City of Fire
- A Novel (Lena Gamble, Book 1)
- By: Robert Ellis
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4 out of 5 stars 197
When a vibrant young woman is found in bed by her hotshot businessman husband, carved from belly to throat with a very sharp knife, the elite Robbery-Homicide Division of the LAPD responds in full force. Best-case scenario for lead Detective Lena Gamble: Nikki Brant's husband killed her, case closed, and on to the next crime scene before the ravenous Hollywood media can get their lurid tabloid machinery up and running.
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5 out of 5 stars
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incredible
- By A. Koren on 01-29-09
By: Robert Ellis
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NYPD Red
- By: James Patterson, Marshall Karp
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jay Snyder
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,174
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,678
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,684
It's the start of Hollywood on Hudson, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. Every night, the red carpet rolls out for movie stars arriving at premieres in limos; the most exclusive restaurants close for private parties for wealthy producers and preeminent directors; and thousands of fans gather with the paparazzi, hoping to catch a glimpse of the most famous and beautiful faces in the world. With this many celebrities in town, special task force NYPD Red is on high alert - and they can't afford to make a single mistake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Police Procedural...
- By shelley on 09-12-17
By: James Patterson, and others
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Walking the Perfect Square
- A Moe Prager Mystery
- By: Reed Farrel Coleman
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 115
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 115
Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe relunctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. But when a suburban college student vanishes off the streets of Manhattan, Prager's universe is turned upside down and his life changed forever. Hired by the student's desperate family, Moe plunges deep into the world of New York's punk underground, sex clubs, and biker bars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clever, Interesting, Satisfying
- By Ted on 06-12-12
What listeners say about The Man Who Robbed the Pierre
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- Kate M.
- 03-23-15
Fascinating story where you root for the criminal
Would you consider the audio edition of The Man Who Robbed the Pierre to be better than the print version?
Maybe--I found the narrator somewhat distracting because of his strange cadence.
What did you like best about this story?
The main character, Comfort, was a lifetime criminal but you find yourself liking him and not wanting him to get caught.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I have listened to other audiobooks performed by Hoye. I know that he has won awards, but I find him somewhat "NPR"-like in his presentation. He does a good job when reading quotes, but at the end of every sentence he drags out the last word. Very annouing.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes--really wanted to find out how it finished.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- B Hart
- 04-21-15
Very good listen
This is face passed and exciting. Hard to believe how much the did and got away with before the Pierre. Worth the listen.
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- Dann
- 03-05-17
I love these stories
I find it interesting how people get to where they went. What the motivations were to get there and the ingenuity it took to get there. Given the cleverness of the thieves, I always wonder what they would have invented or done in a legal profession. What gadgets they may have created or betterment they could have done. Some of the most ingenious ideas are used in committing crimes. Bobby got comfortable robbing hotels. Comfort's not a good thing while committing crimes.
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