Great New Zealand Robbery

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: A&U
Publisher Place: New Zealand
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 282 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The Extraordinary True Story Of How Gangsters Pulled Off Our Most Audacious Heist.

Publishers Description: The forgotten true-crime story of how Aucklands mobsters pulled off the heist of the century. It should be remembered as New Zealands answer to Britains Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commissions offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them. The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero. But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself And what happened to the money

ISBN: 9781877505768