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The Unusual Suspect: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Day Outlaw

Maybe someday

26

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

8/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Ben Machell

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

Date:

January 19, 2021

Machell tells the remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood: a British college student who started robbing banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007.

What The Reviewers Say

Blake Morrison,
The Guardian (UK)
... one of the strengths of Ben Machell’s compelling book is its patient unearthing of the various motivations for his subject’s behaviour.
Bart Everts,
Library Journal
Machell intersperses his gripping account with Jackley’s journal entries and manifestos, which offer prescient predictions about social and economic issues.

Publishers Weekly
... gripping.

Kirkus
Machell [is] a fluid writer.