**Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, *The Old Man and the Gun* is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales.** "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Fl
The old man and the gun and other tales of true crime
โ Scribed by David Grann
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1471181677
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โฆ Synopsis
Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck,The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales by the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon
The Old Man and the Gun is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modelled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. True Crime follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist planted clues in his fiction to an actual murder. And The Chameleon recounts how a French imposter assumes the identity of a missing boy from Texas and infiltrates the boy's family, only to soon wonder whether he is the one being conned. In this mesmerizing collection , David Grann shows why he has been called a 'worthy heir to Truman Capote' and 'simply the best narrative non-fiction writer working today', as...
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