Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft

Author - Jeff Diamant ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from John F. Blair Publisher was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. I was familiar with the case, which led me to Jeff Diamant´s HEIST. Having worked in criminal justice, with a journalist as my best friend, perhaps my expectations were too high... I just think the author could have done so much more with the book.

A Yale-educated journalist with major newspaper experience should have taken better care in prepping his manuscript for publication.

Do not misunderstand me, I still do recommend the book, I only caution readers of the true crime genre not to expect too much. The read is still worthwhile, still informative and entertaining. Worth a read, just not at cover price.¤

2) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. This is an absolutely outstanding book. I couldn´t put it down once I started reading it. The book chronicles a down-and-out guy with nothing to lose who attempts the second largest cash heist ever. The author does a terrific job of telling both the criminal and human sides of the story. While painting a vivid picture of the crime, its mechanics, and the ensuing police investigation, one also gets a good feel for the people involved, what their lives were like, and how they came to be part of the heist. Really, an outstanding book, even for folks who generally don´t read books very often.¤

3) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. With due respect to the author, I thought this book was a bore. Given the story -- several knuckleheads rob Loomis Fargo of $15 million without giving any thought to keeping a low profile afterward -- I figured I´d be in for a rollicking fun read. I was wrong. The narrative is dull, the plot, albeit true, is tedious, and the occasional attempts the author makes to compare the crime with other infamous heists are sorely lacking in detail. Wait for the movie.¤

4) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. I really enjoyed reading this book. This is a classic beach read for the fact that it is amazing and easy to follow. The biggest problem is that you will be constantly wanting to tell people about the group of people that actually pulled this heist off...albeit for a couple of months.¤

5) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. the biggest theft in u.s. history is chronicled here....to be followed by the biggest choke since the yanks lost 4 straight to the red sox...paul zuvella is spinning in his grave....a bunch of rednecks steal millions, then fail to cover up their tracks which leads to arrests of everyone...the author interviewed all participants in this case, except one, and this allows the reader into the minds of some of the funniest, dumbest people on earth....an excellent read, got done in 3 days...nice job jeff...now expose how the yanks lost 4 straight to the sox...ha,ha....slappy to you...¤

6) Paperback Book Heist!: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by John F. Blair Publisher. The audacity of the act was breathtaking.

On October 5, 1997, FBI agents gathered at the Loomis, Fargo & Co. warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, to watch a security videotape of a man loading stacks of cash into a pushcart and wheeling them from the vault. The cart held about $2 million, and the thief made multiple trips.

They already knew who he was-David Ghantt, a Loomis Fargo employee. And the company soon calculated how much was missing--$17 million. But the FBI had scant clues as to where Ghantt had fled and who might have helped him.

As the people of the Carolinas would soon learn, discretion was not the hallmark of the heist´s perpetrators.

Word trickled in to the FBI that Ghantt had a romantic interest in a former coworker, Kelly Campbell, who one day visited a Toyota dealership to purchase a minivan with twenty-dollar bills. Accompanying her was Steve Chambers, who, though unemployed, had recently moved from his mobile home into a $635,000 mansion. A wiretap of Steve´s phone later unearthed a plot to murder David Ghantt, who was hiding in Mexico.

When the FBI arrested those involved in the heist and its aftermath, the public frenzy began. People were enthralled by the reckless extravagance, poor judgment, and peculiar taste of the perpetrators-through stories of a $43,000 diamond ring, breast implants, a faux tiger-skin stair runner, and a wooden Indian, all purchased with the stolen money.

Heist! is the account of an unlikely crime destined to be remembered less for its sophistication than for its colorful cast of true-life characters. The theft has been featured on ABC´s 20/20, America´s Most Wanted, and the Today show and was the subject of the Discovery Channel´s Unperfect Crime.¤

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