The Great Plane Robbery
[978-1-926596-38-9]

Richard Landry, suspected with heisting a fortune during a daring, and puzzling to authorities, airplane robbery has led a determined police detective on an eight year chase that started in Ottawa, Canada and ended in Brazil. Oh, and we forgot to mention that Landry is also the only suspect in a grisly murder of an undercover female Brinks Security agent, who was also his lover.

Filled with great characters and a solid plot, this book will take you on an emotional and visceral ride. Written while he was in prison, Mitchell uses his sense of humor combined with his knowledge of the criminal, and law enforcement, minds to craft a tale that could very easily be described as the “heist of a lifetime” by the “master of the heist”.

Patrick "Paddy" Mitchell, a native of Ottawa, Canada, was leader of the notorious "Stopwatch Gang" of bank robbers. He was regarded to be North America's most famous, most successful and, especially, most likeable bank robber of our time. He was on the FBI's most wanted list for the Stopwatch Gang's bank robberies across the U.S.

Working with fellow Canadians Stephen Reid and Lionel Wright, Mitchell stole approximately $15 million, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, from more 140 banks and other sites across Canada and the U.S. He escaped from prison three times, and moved to the Philippines for a period of 15 years. During that time, he often flew back to the U.S. to visit banks. Finally, in 1994, he was convicted for a solo robbery in Mississippi and put in prison for the last time to serve a 65-year sentence.

Mitchell was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006 and died in the Federal Medical Centre in Butner, N.C. in the prison hospital at age 64.