Under the Streets of Nice

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut¿from the inside¿with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is the breathtakingly compelling story of Spaggiari, his "sewer gang," and the most daring, outrageous theft of the 20th century.

Kenneth Follett, CBE, FRSL is a New York Times best-selling British author of 36 books including Eye of the Needle (1978), The Key to Rebecca (1980), and World Without End (2007). René L. Maurice is co-author of Under the Streets of Nice (1978), and The Heist of the Century (aka The Gentlemen of 16 July) (1978). Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) was a Golden Globe nominated actor whose credits include and Cleopatra.