Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Ca
How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
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- Paperback
369 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2009
Summary
On September 20, 1998, Jose Vigoa, a child of Fidel Castro‘s revolution, launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month reign of terror, he and his crew would hit the creme de la creme of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York—New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. The robberies were well planned and executed, and the police-"the stupid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345514417 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345514416 |
| Author: | John Huddy |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 369 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 136mm x 204mm |
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About The Author
John Huddy
John Huddy, a network producer and print journalist for three decades, has won two Emmys for editorial writing and on-air commentary and other national awards for producing, newswriting, and documentary filmmaking. Huddy is a former Miami Herald columnist and critic whose print and broadcast subjects have included Charles Manson, Federico Fellini, O. J. Simpson, Steve Martin, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Burt Reynolds. He lives in Granada Hills, California.
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