How To Rob An Armored Car

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Three down-on-their-luck friends in a dying Pennsylvania coal town are looking for a way out. Mitch is a rebellious malcontent whose bad attitude gets him fired from a chain box store. Doug can identify any pill by looking at it and any 1980s rock song by the first three notes, but doesn't understand credit scores. Kevin got married and had a kid too young and is now on parole after serving jail time for growing marijuana. The three of them dabble in petty crime and believe they have a talent for it, but things soon get out of hand...

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Levison is a sly storyteller . . . by turns funny, sad, and insightful.Booklist

Plenty of humor in [Levison's] gruff caper, but he punctuates the laughs with just the right hint of sadness. . . . A lean crime story and a stark alternative to glossier capers.Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Iain Levison:

Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on.The New York Times Book Review

There is a naked, pitiless power in his work.USA Today

Mr. Levison writes tight, punchy prose, with deadpan humor and a mixture of savvy about and sympathy for his fellow working stiffs.The Wall Street Journal

Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important.Chicago Tribune

An amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable. . . . A gleeful satire.Detroit Free Press

Loaded with hilarious deadpan humor.Dallas Morning News

Author Bio

Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff's Manifesto, an account of his post-collegiate work experience, consisting of forty-two jobs in ten years, and of two previous novels, Since the Layoffs and Dog Eats Dog. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.