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Sutton, October 2012
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Hyperion
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Featuring: Willie Sutton
334 pages
ISBN: 1401323146
EAN: 9781401323141
Kindle: B0087K6ZHW
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Born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first
year of the twentieth century, Willie Sutton came of age at
a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't
taking brazen risks, causing millions to lose their jobs and
homes, they were shamelessly seeking bailouts. Trapped in a
cycle of bank panics, depressions and soaring unemployment,
Sutton saw only one way out, only one way to win the girl of
his dreams. So began the career of America's most
successful bank robber. Over three decades Sutton became so
good at breaking into banks, and such a master at breaking
out of prisons, police called him one of the most dangerous
men in New York, and the FBI put him on its first-ever Most
Wanted List. But the public rooted for Sutton. He
never fired a shot, after all, and his victims were merely
those bloodsucking banks. When he was finally caught for
good in 1952, crowds surrounded the jail and chanted his
name. Blending vast research with vivid imagination,
Pulitzer Prize-winner J.R. Moehringer brings Willie Sutton
blazing back to life. In Moehringer's retelling, it was more
than need or rage at society that drove Sutton. It was one
unforgettable woman. In all Sutton's crimes and
confinements, his first love (and first accomplice) was
never far from his thoughts. And when Sutton finally walked
free--a surprise pardon on Christmas Eve, 1969--he
immediately set out to find her. Poignant, comic,
fast-paced and fact-studded, Sutton tells a story of
economic pain that feels eerily modern, while unfolding a
story of doomed love, which is forever timeless.
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