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2) The chase
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Language
English
Description
In 1906 detective Isaac Bell goes after the Butcher Bandit who has committed a string of bank robberies and murders in the western states of America and becomes the hunted.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Description
"Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He's reckless, she's naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank, setting off a series of events that quickly spin out of their control Under an Outlaw Moon is based on the true story of Depression-era bank robbers Bennie and Stella Mae Dickson. She's a teenage outsider longing to fit in. He's a few years older and he's trouble. They meet at a local skating rink and the sparks fly....
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
310L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A brilliant criminal known only as the Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their very precise demands--and their explosive violence when the demands are not met. Alex Cross takes on the case and as he gets close to identifying a suspect, the Mastermind pulls off the most outrageous kidnapping scheme in U.S. history--and walks away with the largest ransom ever.
Author
Series
Mike Ford volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
The Fords are an old DC family with deep and powerful connections--to petty thieves, to guys who know how to get their hands on specialized weapons, and to forgers who can, for the right price, produce a pristine new passport in twenty-four hours. Mike Ford, youngest member of the clan, is a Harvard-educated lawyer who has worked hard to build a legitimate life for himself away from his family and their world, complete with a comfortable house and...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
It starts with a prison break in Missouri. When notorious bank robber Ansel McCoy busts out, he teams up with five other outlaws. Then he and his gang rob a bank in Kansas. Now they’re crossing state lines into Oklahoma Indian Territory. And that’s where U.S. Marshal Will Tanner steps in. Other marshals from Kansas and Missouri have already lost the trail. Which means Tanner has to go it alone. Deep in the wilderness. Outnumbered and...
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Language
English
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"In the hearth and home of the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher back home for the holidays--unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of jealousy and vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws--and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen, their long-lost uncle. On a westbound train from the east, a determined charity worker risks...
10) Sprouted
Author
Series
Publisher
Gina LaManna
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A blonde, a brunette, and a red-head walk into a bank...and rob it. As Lacey waits for Baby Luzzi to make his or her appearance, she's decided to cool her jets on the whole "chasing criminals" lifestyle at her husband's insistence. She's settled in comfortably as part-time help at her best friend's bar and, though the work might be a tad boring after years of explosions and car chases, it's a safe job, relatively sanitary, and uneventful--for most...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Johnny Vermillion's theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. Johnny also arranges a special attraction for each town. While his actors bustle in and out of costumes, on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the actors take their curtain calls and railroad away. Who? Us? Rob a bank? But you saw all of us on stage. When could...
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Language
English
Description
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isnt usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
When a daring bank robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except one, Rinaldi is called in to question Treva Williams, the traumatized young woman who survived. However, what seemed a simple robbery soon explodes into a series of events that plunge the investigating officers, Sgt. Harry Polk and Det. Eleanor Lowrey-- as well as Rinaldi himself-- into a vortex of mistaken identity and kidnapping.
16) The millionaires
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Oliver Caruso, brothers employed at the exclusive private bank of Greene & Greene, cannot resist taking $3,000,000 from what they believe is an abandoned account. When they do, a friend dies and they have the bank, the Secret Service, and a private investigator looking for them.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut--not even former Provo James 'Ructions' O'Hare. But when word gets around O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees--known as a 'tiger' kidnapping--in order to force...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis-and media circus-that would...
19) Shot in the back
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"1942--Granbury, Texas. A ninety-five-year-old man walks into a recruiting office with the crazy idea to enlist--and an even crazier story. He claims to be the one and only Jesse James, the infamous bank robber allegedly shot by Robert Ford sixty years earlier. Using another man's corpse to collect the reward, Ford allowed James to slip away and start a new life. Changing his name to Dalton, Jesse worked as a cattle broker in Fort Worth and fathered...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. FBI special agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens reunite to solve the case.