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The Great New Zealand Robbery - The Extraordinary True Story of How Gangsters Pulled Off Our Most Audacious Heist
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The Great New Zealand Robbery - The Extraordinary True Story of How Gangsters Pulled Off Our Most Audacious Heist
Bainbridge, Scott
$22.00

It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them. The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero. But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself. And what happened to the money....

Second hand Trade Paperback
Stock: 
0
ISBN: 
9781877505768
SKU:
91195