The Broadway Books Library of LarcenyLuc Sante, General EditorFor more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably Americas most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of Americas most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of mythrascally and cautionary by turnsyet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.