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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100425250555
ISBN-139780425250556
eBay Product ID (ePID)113126210
Product Key Features
Book TitlePizza Bomber : the Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery
Number of Pages456 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMurder / General, General, Penology, Criminology
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science
AuthorJerry Clark, Ed Palattella
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length7.4 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-289790
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal364.15/52/09748
SynopsisThe bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation--as seen on Netflix's docuseries Evil Genius . For the first time, two of the people who followed the story from the beginning--Jerry Clark, the lead FBI Special Agent who cracked what became known as the Pizza Bomber case, and investigative reporter Ed Palattella--tell the complete story of what happened on August 28, 2003. In the suburbs of Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza delivery man named Brian Wells was accosted by several men who locked a time bomb around his neck. They then ordered him to rob a bank. After delivering the money, he would receive clues to help him disarm the bomb. It was one of the most ingenious bank robbery schemes in history, known as Collarbomb by the FBI. It did not go according to plan. Wells, picked up by police shortly after the robbery, never found the clues he needed. Investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI soon discovered that Wells was not, in fact, an innocent victim. He was merely the first co-conspirator to fall in a bizarre trail of death following the crime... INCLUDES PHOTOS