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(More customer reviews)In two days, a breath of fresh air is hitting the true crime book shelves in the form of debut author Dane Batty's Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals.
Batty has spent a great deal of time promoting his book and I'd been keeping a watch on other's reviews, thinking it was a story I was interested in. So when Batty offered to send me an advanced reader's copy for review, I willingly accepted.
But you never know what you're going to get with first time authors. Often they have an excellent story to tell, just not much of a knack for telling it.
That is NOT the case here.
Batty doesn't actually tell Leslie Rogge's story; he has an inside scoop since Rogge is his maternal uncle.
Rogge tells his own story with a few commentaries from Batty thrown in for a relative's point-of-view.
And, let me tell you, Rogge may be a guy who stole an estimated $2 million in his career as a bank robber, but the guy sure knows how to tell a story.
Rogge skips all the childhood memories and delves right into his days of ripping off banks in a very gentlemanly fashion.
He never used violence to get the cash. His crimes involved no high speed chases.
No, they were about as lax as you're going to see with this serious of a crime.
When Rogge wasn't "sticking it to the man," he was sailing the world with his wife, Judy - who at first was oblivious to Rogge's source of income.
Written by Rogge as if he was talking directly to you, readers are invited to hear about his travels, his misdeeds, and a view into life on the lam.
I can't think of another time that I've wanted so much for the bad guy to get a way; to have a happy ending.
Some people are just natural born story tellers with great stories to tell. Some people do bad things, but they're the nicest folks in the world; willing to give you the shirt off their back in your time of need.
Leslie Rogge is one of them, and Batty has done a SUPERB job of compiling these stories into a book that's difficult to put down!
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