The Top Five Heist Novels of All Time Gary Phillips’ Picks Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett Not remembered as well as he should be these days, William Riley Burnett was an agile crime fiction writer from Little Caesar to High Sierra to one of my favorites by him, the Asphalt Jungle. What always struck me about his work was how the flaws of […]
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The Heist by Richard Brewer and Gary Phillips (Part 4)
Gonzales studied the screen of his homemade electronic device. The safe’s lock required a combination punched in cor- rectly on its keypad. But he wasn’t trying to hack the sequence. What he wanted was to short-circuit the alarm feature. He knew these modern safes were often linked to a smartphone app that would send out […]
The Heist by Richard Brewer and Gary Phillips (Part 3)
The three in the plane were dressed in casual but stylish attire, a trio out looking at Texas real estate their clothes said. O’Conner even wore loafers. Once on the ground, after the plane was checked in, they walked to the two vehicles they’d driven. O’Conner had outfitted any in the crew who had to […]