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On the Brinks

Best-selling and award-winning book by crime writer, Sam Millar, about the biggest robbery in American History. Book acquired by Warner Brothers.

This memoir divides comfortably between the North [of Ireland] and New York. Millar's vivid recollection of privations withstood during the blanket protest offers grim testimony to the limits of human endurance. Like others around him Millar would not be broken, even when political conviction was reduced to dogged resistance against a repressive prison regime. He then emigrated to New York, worked in illicit casinos. The American chapters unveil a gambling underworld run by New York's Irish gangs. The empire wasn't built to last but Millar eyed a much bigger prize. Teaming up with an associate to rob $7.2 million from the hitherto impregnable Brinks Security operation in Rochester. It was a daring and bloodless heist.

“Brilliant."

Irish Examiner

“Michael Mann’s Heist meets Jim Sheridan’s In The Name of The Father, and you come close to what awaits you in On The Brinks. An unbelievably cool book.”

Village Voice, New York

"Brilliant. Powerful..."

Irish Times

“His memoir, On The Brinks, has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster... cool narration of a life on the edge... he has a distinctive style and a compelling story. With the right marketing, his book will become a bestseller.”

Books Ireland

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 280
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780954260774
  • Genres
  • biography
  • Release date
  • 2003