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Author : Sam Millar
language : en
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2014-05-02
On The Brinks written by Sam Millar and has been published by The O'Brien Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Security guards told the police that they were surprised by assailants who had somehow evaded the sophisticated security system. They could not say how many robbers there were...it appears to be one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history.' New York Times, front page In 1993 $7.4 million was stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, the fifth largest robbery in US history. Sam Millar was a member of the gang who carried out the robbery. He was caught, found guilty and incarcerated, before being set free by Bill Clinton's government as an essential part of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. This remarkable book is Sam's story, from his childhood in Belfast, membership of the IRA, time spent in Long Kesh internment camps and the Brinks heist and aftermath. Unputdownable.
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Author : Philip Fitzell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-01
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Author : Sam Millar
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-01-24
On The Brinks written by Sam Millar and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On The Brinks is an award-winning, bestselling memoir and true crime book about growing up in war-torn Belfast and the biggest robbery in U.S.A. history. Highly controversial, is has been critically-acclaimed by historians, Pulitzer Prize winners, and numerous newspaper and magazine critics, world-wide. The book was originally acquired by Warner Brothers, before they came under pressure to drop it by the Bush Administration."By any standards Sam Millar has led a remarkable life. This memoir divides comfortably between the North [of Ireland] and New York. Millar's vivid recollection of privations withstood during the blanket protest offers grim testimony to the limits of human endurance. Like others around him Millar would not be broken, even when political conviction was reduced to dogged resistance against a repressive prison regime.He then emigrated to New York, worked in illicit casinos. The American chapters unveil a gambling underworld run by New York's Irish gangs. The empire wasn't built to last but Millar eyed a much bigger prize...teaming up with an associate to rob $7.2 million from the hitherto impregnable Brinks Security operation in Rochester. It was a daring and bloodless heist...No one can dispute Sam Millar is an incredible survivor. Most certainly, a life less ordinary.All forms of biography take significant episodes in a life and join the dots in between. The dots in this memoir make compulsive reading..."Irish Independent, Book Reviews
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Author : Sam Millar
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-14
On The Brinks written by Sam Millar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-14 with categories.
S. Millar raconte son enfance pauvre à Belfast, son emprisonnement pour activisme révolutionnaire avec les Blanket Men, les prisonniers de l'IRA qui refusent de porter l'uniforme pénitentiaire anglais. Il évoque aussi ses activités de délinquant aux Etats-Unis, qui ont abouti en 1993 au célèbre casse du dépôt de la Brinks à Rochester.
Back From The Brink
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Author : Alistair Darling
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-09-07
Back From The Brink written by Alistair Darling and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of Alistair Darling's one thousand days in Number 11 Downing Street. As Chancellor, he had to avert the collapse of RBS hours before the cash machines would have ceased to function; at the eleventh hour, he stopped Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers in order to protect UK taxpayers; he used anti-terror legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from Britain. From crisis talks in Washington, to dramatic meetings with the titans of international banking, to dealing with the massive political and economic fallout in the UK, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few. His book is also a candid account of life in the Downing Street pressure cooker and his relationship with Gordon Brown during the last years of New Labour. Back from the Brink is a vivid and immediate depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique perspective on the events that rocked international capitalism. It is also a vital historical document.
Talk At The Brink
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Author : David R. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-29
Talk At The Brink written by David R. Gibson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-29 with History categories.
Uses the tools of Conversaton analysis to show how the decisions of the ExComm were made during the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on audio tapes made by President Kennedy.
Nigeria
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Author : John Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Nigeria written by John Campbell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Political Science categories.
Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.
On The Brink
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Author : Andrew Duguid
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-07
On The Brink written by Andrew Duguid and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Huge losses very nearly destroyed Lloyd's, a revered British institution, the world's largest insurance market. Ten thousand people faced big personal bills they thought profoundly unfair. They challenged a complacent institution, forcing it to confront its biggest ever crisis. This book tells what really happened, from the inside.
Seven Million
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Author : Gary Craig
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Seven Million written by Gary Craig and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with True Crime categories.
On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink's depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI's top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester cop working security for Brinks at the time-as well it might. Officer Tom O'Connor had been previously suspected of everything from robbery to murder to complicity with the IRA. One ex-IRA soldier in particular was indebted to O'Connor for smuggling him and his girlfriend into the United States, and when he was caught in New York City with $2 million in cash from the Brink's heist, prosecutors were certain they finally had enough to nail O'Connor. But they were wrong. In Seven Million, the reporter Gary Craig meticulously unwinds the long skein of leads, half-truths, false starts, and dead ends, taking us from the grim solitary pens of Northern Ireland's Long Kesh prison to the illegal poker rooms of Manhattan to the cold lakeshore on the Canadian border where the body parts began washing up. The story is populated by a colorful cast of characters, including cops and FBI agents, prison snitches, a radical priest of the Melkite order who ran a home for troubled teenagers on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the IRA rebel who'd spent long years jailed in one of Northern Ireland's most brutal prisons and who was living underground in New York posing as a comics dealer. Finally, Craig investigates the strange, sad fate of Ronnie Gibbons, a down-and-out boxer and muscle-for-hire in illegal New York City card rooms, who was in on the early planning of the heist, and who disappeared one day in 1995 after an ill-advised trip to Rochester to see some men about getting what he felt he was owed. Instead, he got was what was coming to him. Seven Million is a meticulous re-creation of a complicated heist executed by a variegated and unsavory crew, and of its many repercussions. Some of the suspects are now dead, some went to jail; none of them are talking about the robbery or what really happened to Ronnie Gibbons. And the money? Only a fraction was recovered, meaning that most of the $7 million is still out there somewhere.
The Curse Of Brink S Mat
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Author : Wensley Clarkson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-29
The Curse Of Brink S Mat written by Wensley Clarkson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with True Crime categories.
'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on Sunday The inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery. On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink's-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its chilling aftermath, which still reverberates to this day. The heist made the careers of many of the underworld's biggest names, and changed the face of British crime forever but in the years that followed the robbery, many of those involved, innocent and guilty alike have been sent to an early grave. Two decades on, the death toll is still rising. Nobody knows more about that extraordinary morning's events than Wensley Clarkson, whose early career was spent as a reporter for Britain's biggest-selling newspapers, providing him with a wealth of insider contacts. From small-time crime in south-east London, to 'the heist of the century' and its bloody consequences, Wensley Clarkson's The Curse of Brink's-Mat is an epic tale of villainy, gold and revenge.