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A World of Thieves
A World of Thieves
Author: James Carlos Blake
In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too, is a natural outlaw and persuades his uncles to take him on as a partner. But when a bank job goes ba...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060512477
ISBN-10: 0060512474
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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escapeartistk avatar reviewed A World of Thieves on + 207 more book reviews
If you like "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"-types of stories, you might want to give this less romanticized tale a try. The story is engaging, the writing good, the history believable and the plot unpredictable. I definitely will read more by this author in the future.


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