What Hilary Mantel did for Thomas Cromwell and Paula McLain for Hadley Hemingway . --John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road and The Commoner.
By turns suspenseful, funny, romantic, and sad--in short, a book you won\'t be able to put down.
Moehringer] has found an historical subject equal to his vivid imagination, gimlet journalistic eye, and pitch-perfect ear for dialogue. --Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row [J.
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Filled with vibrant and colorful re-creations of not one but several times in the American past. . . -- Booklist (starred) Thoroughly absorbing .
Electrifying.
And when he finally walked free -- a surprise pardon on Christmas Eve, 1969 -- he immediately set out to find her.
It was his first love.
Moehringer\'s retelling, it was more than need or rage that drove Sutton.
In J.
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But the public rooted for the criminal who never fired a shot, and when Sutton was finally caught for good, crowds at the jail chanted his name.
During three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List.
So began the career of America\'s most successful bank robber.
Sutton saw only one way out and only one way to win the girl of his dreams.
Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control.
Moehringer does for bank robber Willie Sutton in this fascinating biographical novel of America\'s most successful bank robber ( Newsday ). . .
What Hilary Mantel did for Thomas Cromwell and Paula McLain for Hadley Hemingway
