It's not a major part of the book, but don't they hit a bank
in Edward Bunker's No Beast So Fierce (AKA Straight
Time)?
Loophole by Robert Pollock -- they dig up from the sewers
below on a holiday weekend. There were a string of similar
bank robberies throughout Europe as it was translated into
each country's language. There was even an article in Time
(maybe Newsweek) about these copycat capers, circa late-70s,
early '80s. The author claimed the book was so realistic
because he bought the plans off a retired criminal who was
too old to pull the caper. I've seen a similar plot in a few
movies (Sexy Beast, a recent one by Ringo Lam). I think
Loophole was even made into a movie, but I never saw
it.
I'm not sure which one (and I don't feel like getting up to
find the box it's in), but one of Garry Disher's Wyatt novels
(very good series about an Australian version of Parker, by
the way) uses the taking the bank manager's family hostage
trick.
Mark
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