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The story focuses on three criminals who escape from an oklahoma prison and revert to the one thing that they know well robbing banks. Thieves like us by edward anderson, paperback barnes. Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers chicamaw and tdub escape from a mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. Bowie teams up with fellow thieves chicamaw and tdub to rob a bank he needs the money to hire a lawyer to prove hes innocent of murder. Jonah is a hackercode breaker extraordinaire, who is broken out of a juvie facility by the crew so that he can join them in their quests. Indiana jonesstyle archeological adventure meets modern technology when cipherpunk jonah joins a gang of teenaged crooks.
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