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The Old Man and the Gun

And Other Tales of True Crime

The Old Man and the Gun( )
Author: Grann, David
ISBN:978-0-525-56603-8
Publication Date:Sep 2018
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

"The Old Man and the Gun," is the story of a man who idolized the likes of Pretty Boy Floyd and, as a result, fashions himself into a notorious bank robber and escape artist. "The Chameleon" is the tale a French con artist gets in over his head when he impersonates a missing Texas teenager and raises the suspicions of a local private investigator. "True Crime" follows a riveting investigation in which a Polish cold-case detective makes an unlikely connection between a philosopher's...
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Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.2 x 20.2 x 1.3 cm
Book Weight:0.156 Kilograms
Author Biography
Grann, David (Author)
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1989, and earned a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a master's degree from Boston College in creative writing. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. His stories have been published in numerous anthologies of American writing. His books include The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon which won the Indies Choice award for the best nonfiction book of 2009, and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

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