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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 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?

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
July 26th, 2017
Pages
288
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
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Dimensions
155x235x20
ISBN-13
9781877505768
Product ID
26815859

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