Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. H
The Outfit: The Absolutely True Story of the Time Joseph Stalin Robbed a Bank
โ Scribed by David Tallerman
- Book ID
- 111224117
- Publisher
- Rebellion Publishing Ltd
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781786184474
- ASIN
- B09QDVHTSS
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise...
In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili โ who would later take the name Joseph Stalin โ met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili's poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan.
With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili's hardened crew of "expropriators," they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia's history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...
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