The Outfit
The Absolutely True Story of the Time Joseph Stalin Robbed a Bank
2022
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-78108-985-9 (ISBN)
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-78108-985-9 (ISBN)
In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili – who would later take the name Joseph Stalin – pulled off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia’s history, complete with lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise…
Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise…
In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili – who would later take the name Joseph Stalin – met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili’s poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan.
With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili’s hardened crew of “expropriators,” they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia’s history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...
Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise…
In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili – who would later take the name Joseph Stalin – met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili’s poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan.
With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili’s hardened crew of “expropriators,” they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia’s history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...
Yorkshire-based author David Tallerman is responsible for more than a dozen books, among them the historical science-fiction drama To End All Wars, thrillers A Savage Generation and The Bad Neighbour, and the fantasy series The Black River Chronicles. His comics work includes the absurdist steampunk graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science, with Bob Molesworth, and his short fiction has appeared in around a hundred markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A number of his best dark fantasy stories were gathered together in his debut collection The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 128 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78108-985-X / 178108985X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78108-985-9 / 9781781089859 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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