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"Punch Stanimirovic insists: ""My father, known as Mr. Stan, is the greatest gentleman thief who ever lived--a true genius."" Punch was raised to be an exceptional diamond thief. He could work magic on a safe that would have sent Mandrake the Magician back to the novelty store, and Dr. Strange back to medical school. He and his family risked it all to make the patriarch, Mr. Stan, proud. Punch's pop culture sensibilities, his father's proven skills, and his mother's artistic input merged to create cinema-style capers--elaborately planned and executed, including a spectacular 1992 New York mega-heist of over one billion dollars in diamonds, gold, and precious gems--and they got away with it. Many of the crew members went on to invest in real estate, helping to ""build the New York skyline,"" while others moved to Europe and became the Pink Panthers. They had one rule: No One Gets Hurt. From daring heists to the ultimate escape, discover the true story of Punch, his extraordinary crew, and his high-society family. Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Burl Barer brings to light the remarkable story of four decades and two generations of America's First Family of kind and generous ""altruistic outlaws"" in Stealing Manhattan: The Untold Story of America's Billion Dollar Gem Heist Masterminds."

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"Burl Barer is a Edgar Award winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience. In addition to non-fiction/ true crime best sellers, Barer also writes new adventures of Leslie Charteris's The Saint, and the Jeff Reynolds series of private eye novels and the American Panther series based on the life of the world's greatest safe cracker, Paul ""Punch"" Stanimirovic. Barer spent two years adapting Pouran Rahimi's important oral history of the persecution of Iran's Baha'i community, Love at the Cost of Life, into conversational English, and deems it the one effort on his part that will still be read in a hundred years. Punch Stanimirovic, an infamous safe cracker and forger-he could punch open a safe in under sixteen seconds. Also a master ""aerosol artist,"" his street art inspired Sean Sullivan aka Layercakeny and the youngest and highest-ranking member of the YACS/ Pink Panthers. He served sixteen years in prison where he became an in-demand tattoo artist for the Latin Kings. Punch was born to wealth and raised to be an exceptional diamond thief, but his true love was always art. After a period of criminal activity, he turned away from his life of crime and brought art therapy programs to American prisons. Since 2015, Tom Lennon has produced over 100 audiobooks in a variety of genres. Today he works primarily in the genres of detective mystery, nonfiction, thriller, and memoir. A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology with an engineering degree, Tom's day job for thirty-five-plus years was in sales and marketing with several Fortune 500 Companies in the HVAC Industry, where he has given thousands of presentations to groups from 5 to 5,000. Tom was born and raised in Northern New Jersey. After college he worked for a few years in Richmond, Virginia, before being transferred to Pennsylvania, where he still resides in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. When not in the studio being interrupted by a tuxedo cat named Oreo, Tom can frequently be found in or under his 1972 Mercury Cougar."

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