num_pages: 336
description: Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant — if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. His a police chief who learned how to be a detective via dubbed episodes of Columbo; a deputy so dense he was known only by his Hungarian nickname, Mound of Asshead; and a forensics expert-cum-ballet teacher who wore a top hat and tails on the job.Part Pink Panther, part The Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, award-winning book tells the remarkable story of a crime spree that galvanized a forlorn nation and made a nobody into a somebody — a tale so outrageous that it could only be true.--WINNER, Borders 2004 "Original Voices" Non-fiction Book of the Year.--FINALIST, 2005 Edgar Award, Best Fact Crime.--A New York Times "Editors' Choice"
language: English
title: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts
titlecomplete: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts
genres: Biography, Hockey, Nonfiction, Humor, Sports, Audiobook, Hungary, Crime, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 5120
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Audie Award
category: Best Audio Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE +