Thief: Original title: The home invaders

By Frank Hohimer

Book Overview

The first inside story about Mafia-organized cat burglary and big-time robbery in this country, as told by one of the top pros in the business", Frank Hohimer, the "Ski Mask Burglar". This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087216862X
• ISBN13: 9780872168626
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Playboy Paperbacks
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Real Author of this Book Was Plagiarized

The original version of The Home Invaders was titiled The Thief, and oddly enough was the book based on Michael Mann's blockbuster film, THIEF staring James Caan and Tuesday Weld. The real Author, Joe Wolfe, author of TIME OCULAR, wrote The Thief on 1971. In 1975 the book, almost completely unchanged except for a few words and phrases, was published by a relatively new publishing company in Chicago. Subsequently, in 1981 Michael Mann aquired it and produced the film. To this day, credit for the work has not yet been rightfully attributed to Wolfe, and new linguist forensic efforts are currently being applied to compare the writer's unique style. Signature phrases in the plagiarized version, The Home Invaders, were overlooked and remain [even in the film] and prove beyond a shadow of doubt. that Joe Wolfe is the real author.