Years ago there was a book called Loophole by Robert Pollack
about a
bank heist where, over a three-day weekend, a gang tunneled
through the
floor of a bank vault from the city drainage pipes running
underneath.
As I recall, several heists of this sort occured in Italy
shortly after
the book was translated there. (I was reminded of this
because a
similar plot features in the Hong Kong movie Full Alert,
which I saw
over the weekend.)
Lawrence Block has been active in the hardboiled bad guy
category. One
of Block's Kavanaugh books is a caper, one features a hit man
and then
there is his recent Hit Man under his own name. Also, there
is The Girl
with the Long Green Heart, one of his great early paperback
originals,
about two con men and the inside girl who is their
accomplise.
Which reminds me of the two con job books by Iceberg Slim,
Trick Baby
and Long White Con, both featuring a black man who passes for
white to
con whitey out of his long green.
Finally, did anyone else enjoy Wild Things as much as I did.
It is an
enetertaining con movie. Although the final outdcome is no
big surprise
it has enough twists along the way to keep it fun. It is
definitely the
sleaziest, cheesiest movie I've seen in the last year, but it
is great
nasty fun in a world where everyone is out for what they can
get.
Mark
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