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Ingrained in American culture are stories of crimes, criminals, and brazen robberies known as heist. Films such as “Reservoir Dogs”, “Heat”, and “Ocean’s 11″ depict perpetrators as seasoned professionals, veterans hardened to a life of crime. But the stories and characters are not real – they are fiction... READ MORE
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Transy Book Heist
"[They] were college buddies who hatched a plan to steal rare books from the library at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky."
-Harper's Magazine
"... aiming for editions of Audobon's 'Bird's of America' valued at $12 Million."
-The Wall Street Journal
Serving a sentence of 87 months in federal prison Chas Allen has sent out thousands of handwritten pages to his brother Blake and sister Sydney who helped publish his true american heist story. Chas Allen's non-fiction true story account of his involvement with the Transylvania Book Heist is the tell-all true story that answers the questions everyone has been asking. What could lead four college students to a life of crime and how they were able to pull off a multi-million dollar book heist. Among the books taken were, Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and editions of James Audubon's "Bird's of America" valued at $12 million.
"... one of Lexington's most notorious crimes."
-Lexington Herald Leader
"... a crime that would one day be listed among the F.B.I.'s all-time most significant art-theft cases."
-Vanity Fair Magazine
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