Reddit reviews Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

His life has been recounted in a novel. A very good read. Recommended.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is lesser known, but a fun, brisk read. It doesn't reach the level of HS or ICB, and it's about a more amusing case, not murders. The central criminal is just too likeable to not root for, he was a pelt smuggler before he was a robbery. The writing is above average for true crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Ambrus

https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731

I just read this for my True Crime book club. Very Dollop-esque:



Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

Rubinstein, Julian

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein <- This one I actually got shushed on the subway for laughing too hard while reading it.

Edit: Links

straight out of The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

I highly, highly recommend a hilarious book, The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, based on the true story of a Hungarian bank robber just after the fall of communism. It wonderfully captures life in Central Europe at that time. And this scene could have been taken straight from the book. One of the funniest books I've ever read, and even more remarkable because it's all true: http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731

Here is a book that has hockey in it but is so much more.