Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber

For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably Americaâs most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of Americaâs most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of mythârascally and cautionary by turnsâyet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.