The Toughest Prison of All

The Toughest Prison of All is a personal account of Floyd Forsberg's life of crime, beginning at the age of 14 with shoplifting and burglary. It advanced to purse snatching, car theft, forging of stolen money orders, assault, attempted bank robbery, bank robbery, and finally murder. In 1974, he and three others pulled off a $1,000,000 heist at the First National Bank of Nevada in Reno, which was the most famous bank robbery up to that time. Every time Floyd was arrested, he began...
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The Toughest Prison of All is a personal account of Floyd Forsberg's life of crime, beginning at the age of 14 with shoplifting and burglary. It advanced to purse snatching, car theft, forging of stolen money orders, assault, attempted bank robbery, bank robbery, and finally murder. In 1974, he and three others pulled off a $1,000,000 heist at the First National Bank of Nevada in Reno, which was the most famous bank robbery up to that time. Every time Floyd was arrested, he began to plan his next escape, his next bank robbery. However, on one of the rare occasions he wasn't incarcerated, Floyd met Nancy, the love of his life. For her, he was willing to go straight. But before he did, he just needed to pull off one last bank job? This book is not only a memoir of his years as a criminal, it's what Floyd discovered about himself that finally caused him to give up his addiction to criminal thinking and find happiness on the outside.