Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
Immediately gripping and thoroughly harrowing, Storming Las Vegas tells the story of a remarkable true-life crime spreea story that was previously squashed so as not to disturb tourism, in the ultimate proof of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Customer Review: Disappointing
The cover blurb got me to buy this book; it led me to think I was going to read some sort of real life "Ocean's 11." But it's not. The author recounts a series of what amount to snatch-and-grab armored car heists as well as a botched cashier's cage robbery at the Bellagio. The robberies are not very interesting, and the characters aren't very interesting either. There's too much luck, incompetence and happenstance in the events, all of which diffuse any drama. Added to that is the fact the author can't decide in which tense to write the book -- he jumps from present tense to past tense, in a rather disorganized way, while providing lots of extraneous detail. This would have been much better as a 40 or 50 page section of an anthology crime book, but at this length, it's bloated. If the subject interests you, check it out of the library...it's certainly not good enough to warrant a place on your bookshelf.
Customer Review: A story that needed telling.
This is an amazing story, with details little known even in Nevada.
The writing could be better, but it's still worth reading.
