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Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World by William J. Rehder
peoniesandpages's review
adventurous
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Police brutality
mburnamfink's review against another edition
4.0
Rehder has some amazing war stories from his 33 years working as an FBI agent specializing in bank robbery in Los Angeles, and he is kind enough to share them with us. The book covers the major types of bank robberies with some of his favorite examples. Eddie Dodson robbed over 60 banks in a seven month spree of non-violent 'one-on-one' robberies to fuel his heroin habit. Casper Brown turned a street gang into violent takeover specialists. David Mack was an LAPD officer who convinced his mistress to pull an inside job. The mysterious Hole in the Ground Gang specialized in digging into vaults, and made one robbery and nearly succeeded in two others before disappearing. And Rehder has nothing but scorn for the infamous North Hollywood Shootout bandits, who violated the cardinal "120 seconds" law of bank robbery and then went down in a blaze of gunfire. Heat is a great film, but real life is not a movie, and as Rehder emphasizes again and again-bank robbers never win, and when they do get caught, it's a 15 year sentence. This is some awesome true crime reporting, and lots of fun.
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