Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins
and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected
blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us.
You'll never see the city the same way again.
At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is 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 L.A.P.D. 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 museum's surveillance routine or
discussing home invasions in ancient Rome, A Burglar's Guide to the
City has 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 heists-both spectacular and absurd-A Burglar's Guide
to the City ensures readers will never enter a bank again without
imagining how to loot the vault or walk down the street without planning
the perfect getaway.
