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Storming Las Vegas
- How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
- De: John Huddy
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
On September 20, 1998, a Cuban-born former Red Army lieutenant named Jose Vigoa launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip. During a 16-month spree, Vigoa robbed five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and one department store. The casinos hit were the MGM; the Desert Inn; the New York, New York; the Mandalay Bay; and the Bellagio. Lieutenant John Alamshaw, a 23-year-old 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 didn't know was that he was running out of time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it..
- De Ed Robertson en 03-31-08
- Storming Las Vegas
- How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
- De: John Huddy
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Wow
Revisado: 11-30-11
I have ties to Las Vegas and had never heard of this story in the press before. So my curiosity got me to listen. The book grabbed me at the start. But then, in chapter 3, the story went to places other than Las Vegas and I thought I had bought the wrong book, based on the description. I later found out that this back story was very important and, like a flywheel, discharged energy into the story when it returns to Las Vegas. The narration is the best I've ever heard. Rudnicki's general narration is fantastic, but when he impersonates the voices of the characters' quotes (and there are a whole lot of characters in this story) I was really impressed. This is, it turns out, the story of the real Tony Montana (characterized in the movie Scarface). I couldn't wait until I could find an opportunity to listen to the next chapter and didn't want it to end. I was left thinking that if Vigoa, the main character in the story, were CEO of a mid-size company, he would have been on the cover of Fortune magazine.
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