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Why The Feather Thief is the Most Bizarre Heist Story You’ll Ever Read
And it’s absolutely true…
Nothing compares to reading an adrenalin-fueled heist story filled with weird twists, macabre motivations, and crazy courtroom antics. Usually, those stories are complete fabrications, fiction designed to titillate the reader’s imagination. But in this case, truth really is stranger than fiction.
My socks were absolutely knocked off by a nonfiction, true-crime book, The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson.
I couldn’t have even dreamed this story up and would have had a hard time molding the details into a story that readers would buy into because it’s so far-fetched.
It read like a thriller but contained tons of research and dozens and dozens of interviews. Part detective story. Part history. Part journalistic exposé. The Feather Thief does it all. It’s the most bizarre, but absolutely true, heist story you’ll ever read.
The “unbelievable” but true events in a nutshell
Edwin Rist was studious and intelligent, home-schooled by parents who bred Labradoodles in the Hudson Valley of New York. Born in 1989, Edwin’s intelligence was encouraged and cultivated, and by the time he was a young teen, he was demonstrating a prodigious…
