Great New Zealand Robbery: The Extraordinary True Story Of How Gangsters Pulled Off Our Most Audacious Heist by Scott Bainbridge

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?

Publisher:	Allen & Unwin
Year:	2017
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781877505768
Condition:	Very Good

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SKU: 1602928
Location: True Crime