<<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.)>>
Michael Connelly's first novel, _The Black Echo_, (his best,
with _The
Concrete Blonde_, in my opinion) has this same plot:
tunnelling to get
into a vault, etc. It's probably quite an old gag, both in
fiction and
in real thiefdom.
Apropos of spectacular capers, Lawrence Sanders's _The
Anderson Tapes_
is a very entertaining and stylish book.
Regards,
MT
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