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The Great New Zealand Robbery
The extraordinary true story of how gangsters pulled off our most audacious heist
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It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came...
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The Great New Zealand Robbery
The forgotten true-crime story of how Auckland's mobsters pulled off the heist of the century.
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Description
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them.
The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero. But to this day, uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really—cunning as he was—have pulled it off all by himself? And what happened to the money?
The Great New Zealand Robbery by Scott Bainbridge delves into this intriguing mystery, exploring the heist that captivated a nation.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781877505768
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 July 2017
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 374g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Scott Bainbridge is one of New Zealand's best-known true crime writers. He is the author of four books, including The Bassett Rd Machine-Gun Murders and Shot in the Dark.
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