A Burglar's Guide to the City [Paperback]

Encompassing nearly two thousand years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes,A Burglars Guide to the Cityoffers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. Youll never see the city the same way again.

At the core ofA Burglars Guide to the Cityis an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city.

With the help of FBI special agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the LAPD Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law. Whether picking padlocks or climbing the walls of high-rise apartments, finding gaps in a museums surveillance routine or discussing home invasions in ancient Rome,A Burglars Guide to the Cityhas the tools, the tales, and the x-ray vision you need to see architecture as nothing more than an obstacle that can be outwitted and undercut.

Full of real-life heistsboth spectacular and absurdA Burglars Guide to the Cityensures readers will never enter a bank again without imagining how to loot the vault, or walk down the street without planning the perfect getaway.

This burglars guide isnt for ordinary smash-and grab-burglars, its for the rest of uswho like to steal in, steal out, and get away with glorious dreams. A spectacularly fun read.
Robert Krulwich, co-host ofRadiolab

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