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Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant ? only if Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. Through the 1990s, while playing for the largest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. His opponents: a police chief who learned how to be a detective via dubbed episodes of Columbo; a deputy so dense he was known only by his Hungarian nickname, Mound of Asshead; and a forensics expert-cum-ballet teacher who wore a high hat and tails face to face.
Part Pink Panther, part The Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, award-winning book tells the amazing story of the crime spree that galvanized a forlorn nation and made a nobody into a somebody ? a tale so outrageous that it might only be true.
--WINNER, Borders 2004 "Original Voices" Non-fiction Book of the entire year.
--FINALIST, 2005 Edgar Award, Best Fact Crime.
--A New York Times "Editors' Choice"
