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Since the book has been written, darren aronofsky director of the wrestler has. His books include the noted biographies down the highway. Welcome to the website of the author howard sounes, whose bestselling books include acclaimed biographies of bob dylan, charles bukowski and paul mccartney as. Sounes also wrote a companion book in 2000 called bukowski in pictures. The true story of the worlds biggest cash robbery ebook. On 22 february 2006, 53 million was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the securitas company. In the mid2000s it was reported that he was working on a book called heist, an account of the worlds biggest cash robbery.
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