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>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net
>Sent: May 24, 2006 9:51 AM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Families as hostages in bank
jobs
>
>I think I first read the plot where a bank manager's
family is held
>hostage while one of the criminals takes the manager
to open the bank's
>vault in one of Garry Disher's Wyatt novels. Since
then, I've seen it
>in a number of TV shows -- Law & Order, one of
the CSIs, 24, maybe even
>Nash Bridges.
>
>So, my questions are:
>
>When did this start showing up in books? Was Disher
the first?
>
>And does this happen in real life? I don't remember
reading about it in
>the papers. Seems there's a lot of added exposure
there.
>
>Duane, you've written a book on bank jobs, real and
fictional. Do you
>know?
>
>Mark
Isn't this how the gang is taking down banks in THE FRIENDS
OF EDDIE COYLE? I think I read somewhere that Higgens based
that element of the story on real events.
A variation of it was used a few years later in the movie
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY.
TL
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