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 enlarge | Author: John Huddy
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $26.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 80488
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0345487451
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1552092
EAN: 9780345487452
ASIN: 0345487451
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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Condition: Mint!!
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 Breathless May 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book moves from cover to cover, with an unexpected twist at the end. I understand the movie rights have been sold, but no way will this story fit into a two hour movie. It's a mini series.
 Review of Storming Las Vegas on CD May 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this for my husband, but as we travel around I have enjoyed listening to it immensely. Very good story.
Pleasant Surprise April 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A must read for anyone who visits "The Strip". You will easily recognize virtually every location described by the author in this book. He documents an amazing story in startling detail. You will be fascinated by his descriptions of events that most of us would never imagine could actually happen at these famous locations on "The Boulevard".
 Breezing Las Vegas, a primer for armored car heists ... April 14, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
A good read if your DVD is broke, you ran out of beer, and your main squeeze ran out the door with the toothless pizza delivery man.
But come on. These super crooks wouldn't have lasted a day if the mafia still ran Las Vegas. Instead we have the morally and intellectually stunted super capitalists in charge like Steve Weenie (at least I think his name is weenie). Will the incompetent cops catch the incompetent crooks while the brain dead rich guys snooze on? It's a page turner.
Unbelievable real-life crime story handled wonderfully by its author. April 8, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
To be fair, John Huddy had somewhat of a slam-dunk on his hands with this under-told story. Even so, his writing and thoughtfulness took it to a level it wouldn't have reached in less capable hands.
Huddy, a former police and crime beat reporter found an amazing story that had been downplayed by casinos and Las Vegas papers because of the potential for negative impact on their business. For a little longer than 24 months at the end of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s, several Las Vegas armored cars and big-time casinos were robbed in a manner that was clearly planned by someone with a knowledge of weapons and tactics well beyond that of the average criminal. Furthermore, they were bold - done right on the strip in broad daylight.
Huddy tells the story of these heists and the law enforcement effort to solve them in a gripping, nearly fiction-like narrative style that keeps you almost frantic to find out what happens next. To achieve this effect, Huddy has spent an obviously huge amount of time researching the story first-hand, talking at length with those who were involved.
The finished product is the tale of a man born in Cuba and trained by the Soviet military who ends up in the United States under questionable circumstances and turns to his military training to earn an illicit living in Sin City. In this case, truth truly is stranger than fiction.
Huddy deserves credit for painting an even-handed portrait of the men who committed and solved the crimes, resisting the urge to just give in to stereotyping. Beyond that, Huddy finishes with a thoughtful analysis of who our Cuban anti-hero might truly be, and who he might not be. All in all, Huddy has found a great story and done it full justice with his treatment.
Highly recommended for anyone who likes non-fiction crime stories. An action-packed descendant of "In Cold Blood", by Truman Capote.
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