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  • The Man Who Robbed the Pierre

  • The Story of Bobby Comfort
  • By: Ira Berkow
  • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

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The Man Who Robbed the Pierre

By: Ira Berkow
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
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Publisher's Summary

Bobby Comfort wanted to be a good something. He turned out to be a great criminal.

January 2, 1972: Men in tuxedos rob the Pierre, a New York hotel. They get away with $11 million worth of cash and jewelry. The police are baffled by how large-scale a heist could go off so smoothly. The answer was in the leader of the thieves, a man by the name of Bobby Comfort. Comfort took to crime from a young age, card sharping, petty theft, and eventually robbery. Taking money from the rich, though, was where he excelled. Like Robin Hood (only keeping the loot himself), Comfort masterminded what was, at the time, the most lucrative heist in history.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ira Berkow chronicles the crime, using first-hand accounts to weave together a ripping cops-and-robbers yarn, and a portrait of a truly American rogue.

©1987 Ira Berkow (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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