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Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink´s Heist
Gary Craig
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Description for Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink´s Heist
Paperback. Some died, some went to jail-who holds the key to the missing millions? Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of New England
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611688917
SKU
V9781611688917
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Gary Craig
GARY CRAIG is a reporter on the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle's Watchdog team, focusing on public safety and criminal justice. He has followed and written about the Brink's depot heist for over twenty years. He has won numerous state and national journalism awards. This is his first book.
Reviews for Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink´s Heist
The book is divided into three sections
an exciting police procedural start-off, as the robbery and its aftermath are detailed, and the long stakeouts involved in finding the right combination of men and missing money; then a detailed examination of the Irish and IRA connections that may or may not hold clues; and finally the story of Gibbons, a ... Read more
an exciting police procedural start-off, as the robbery and its aftermath are detailed, and the long stakeouts involved in finding the right combination of men and missing money; then a detailed examination of the Irish and IRA connections that may or may not hold clues; and finally the story of Gibbons, a ... Read more