Heist: The Oddball Crew behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft, Jeff Diamant
  • $7.96
    • Facebook Share
    • Twitter Share
    • Pinterest Share

Details

Heist: The Oddball Crew behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft

Author: Jeff Diamant

Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 08/04/2015

Genre: True Crime - White Collar Crime

Synopsis

The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American history One night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 millionliterally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. Theres just one hitch: Ghantt has entrusted the money to an oddball crew of accomplices who had wooed him into committing this massive theft in the first placeand who, he soon learns, are trying to take him out. Now one of the most wanted men in America, and with the FBI hot on his heels, Ghantt must figure out how to get his money, get away from a hit man, and get even. In this outrageously entertaining book, Jeff Diamant, the Charlotte Observers lead reporter on the case, offers the definitive inside account of this astonishing true story that has captivated American audiences on the news.

Recommended

Once Gone
Once Gone
by Blake Pierce

Women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to cra...

Narrator: Elaine Wise
Published: 06/08/2016

Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart

A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to...

Narrator: John Hockenberry
Published: 05/01/2008

The G-man and the Hit Man
The G-man and the Hit Man
by Frederic Dannen

Journalist Frederic Dannen reports on the questionable close relationship between a mobster/informant and an F.B.I. agent during a bloody Colombo crime family battle. This selection is part of the full-length audiobook, "Mob: Stories of Death and Be...

Narrator: Gary Telles
Published: 02/01/2023

Girl, Alone 01
Girl, Alone
by Blake Pierce

“A MASTERPIECE OF THRILLER AND MYSTERY. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this ...

Narrator: Abigail Reno
Published: 12/28/2020

Just Desserts
Just Desserts
by Katy Vine

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Just Desserts" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins led a perfectly ...

Narrator: Lydia Mackay
Published: 01/09/2018

Blessed by Bosasa Inside Gavin Watson's state capture cult
Blessed by Bosasa
by Adriaan Basson

‘You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.’It’s easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you’d be wrong.Born out of the ANC Women’s League 20 years ago, Bosasa...

Narrator: Nick Boraine
Published: 08/17/2023

A Prisoner without Bars Part One
A Prisoner without Bars Part One
by Dawn Mayree

This is my true story of what happened when I was living in a seaside town in England. He was a Rich, Powerful, Businessman, who always got what he wanted and unfortunately what he wanted was me. I was physically and mentally abused for nearly nine ...

Narrator: Dawn Mayree
Published: 07/18/2019

Gangland Style - The Transcript
Gangland Style - The Transcript
by Bruce McCall

A humorous take on gangsters interviewing an image consultant named Mr. Buncombe who tells them about a scheme to market fragrances, open a theme park, sell bathrobes and Gangland 'Mean Cuisine,' as well as self-improvement cassettes and tax seminar...

Narrator: Richard Rohan
Published: 02/01/2023

A Prisoner without Bars Part Two
A Prisoner without Bars Part Two
by Dawn Mayree

This Book is part two of my true story of physical and mental abuse which lasted for nearly nine years.Living every day with such intense anxiety, misery and fear with all those cuts and bruises is somethingI can never, ever forget.

Narrator: Dawn Mayree
Published: 07/18/2019
{"id":"1007895","ean":"9781504618588","abr":"Unabridged","title":"Heist: The Oddball Crew behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft","subtitle":"The Oddball Crew behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft","author":"Jeff Diamant","rating_average":"4.33","narrator":"Jeffrey Kafer","ubr_id":"1007895","abr_id":"0","ubr_price":"13.95","abr_price":"0.00","ubr_memprice":"8.37","abr_memprice":"0.00","ubr_narrator":"Jeffrey Kafer","abr_narrator":"","ubr_length":"Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min","abr_length":"Abridged: "}