A "deeply researched and brilliantly written" blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us (Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine).
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, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city.
Encompassing nearly two thousand years of heists and break-ins, the book draws on the expertise of reformed bank robbers, FBI special agents, private security consultants, the LAPD Air Support Division, and architects past and present.
Whether discussing how to pick padlocks, climb the walls of high-rise apartments, find gaps in a museum's surveillance routine, or discuss home invasions in ancient Rome, 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.
Praise for A Burglar's Guide to the City
"This burglar's guide isn't for ordinary smash-and-grab burglars, it's for the rest of us -- who steal in, steal out, and get away with glorious dreams. A spectacularly fun read." -- Robert Krulwich, cohost of Radiolab
"Who knew that urban studies could be so riveting? Geoff Manaugh excels at finding new, illicit, and fresh angles on a subject as loved as it is overexposed -- the city. In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already." -- Paola Antonelli, design curator, MoMA

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