The great New Zealand robbery : the extraordinary true story of how gangsters pulled off our most audacious heist / Scott Bainbridge.

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"In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. The heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision: nobody saw a thing, there was no violence, and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them. The crime was pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash in a trial that went relatively unnoticed. It wasn't until four years later, when Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, that he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero - a man sticking it to the authorities. To this day, uncertainty remains around whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he - cunning as he was - really have pulled it off? Or was it more likely the work of a group of gangsters? And what happened to the money?"--Publisher information.