The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is a true story by journalist Julian Rubinstein, published in 2004. Attila Ambrus, a Transylvanian who fled to Hungary, worked as a goalie for a professional ice hockey team in Budapest while robbing banks and post offices in the 1990s. He drank whiskey before his heists and became a folk hero for his politeness and cleverness. Rubinstein tells how police chased him and what his story says about post-communist Hungary.
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- John Green: “If you like the fictional exploits of the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers, you might also like the Ballad of The Whiskey Robber, an amazing true story about a Hungarian hockey player who is a professional hockey goalie and a bank robber! Also a prison escapee, but I don't want to spoil anything.”