Storming Las Vegas, John Huddy
Storming Las Vegas, John Huddy
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Storming Las Vegas
How a CubanBorn, SovietTrained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five WorldClass Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars

Author: John Huddy

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 13 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime


Synopsis

Immediately gripping and thoroughly harrowing, Storming Las Vegas tells the story of a remarkable truelife crime spreea story that was previously squashed so as not to disturb tourism, in the ultimate proof of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. On September 20, 1998, a Cubanborn former Red Army lieutenant named Jose Vigoa launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip. During a sixteenmonth spree, Vigoa hit five worldclass hotels, three armored cars, and one department store. The casinos were: the MGM; the Desert Inn; the New York, New York; the Mandalay Bay and the Bellagio. Lieutenant John Alamshaw, a twentythreeyearold veteran in charge of robbery detectives, was ordered to stop the robberies at all costs. He knew he was up against a mastermind. What he didnt know was that he was running out of time.

About John Huddy

John Huddy is a veteran journalist and producer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on July 10, 2009

What a story...one of my top picks from the non-fiction genre. Action, adventure, brutality, justice. The title tells its premise. Amazing read.......more

Goodreads review by Larry on May 21, 2017

The story was interesting, but there were two aspects of the writing that downgraded the rating: The background biography of the main character was interesting but came too early in the story. While the entire book was chronological it took to long too get to other than the introductory description o......more