The Stopwatch Gang

By Greg Weston

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Journalist Greg Weston tells the true story of the Stopwatch Gang, three Canadian robbers led by Stephen Reid who carried out more than 100 bank robberies in the 1970s and 1980s. The gang got its name from timing each robbery with a stopwatch to finish in under two minutes. Weston follows their careers, escapes and capture, and the lives of the men behind the crimes.

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