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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781786897992
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 320
PUBLICATION DATE:
January 6, 2022
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The Unusual Suspect: The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood
Ben Machell
It is 2007, a time of recession and impending climate crisis, and one young man decides to change the world.This is the story of Stephen Jackley, a British geography student with Asperger’s Syndrome. Aged just twenty-one, obsessed with the idea of Robin Hood, and with no prior experience, he resolved to become a bank robber. He would steal from the rich and give to the poor.And he did. Bank notes mysteriously found their way into the hands of the homeless. The police had no idea who was responsible. Until Jackley’s ambition got the better of him.
Ben Machell
Ben Machell is a feature writer for The Times and The Times Magazine and a contributor to publications including VICE, ES Magazine and Esquire. He has been shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. Ben has full and exclusive access to Stephen and his surviving diaries, as well as access to law enforcement and the key characters involved in Jackley’s story on both sides of the Atlantic.@ben_machell