MASTER OF LARCENY
MASTER OF LARCENY

Author: Group Captain RD Vinayak VSM (Retd.)

Publisher: Saptrishi Publication

Published: 2022-02-09

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9391236731

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The author believes that human mind is very fertile and capable of wildest imagination. There is no dearth of books with fictitious stories showing flight of human mind conceiving weird objects and incidents which never happened and may never happen. Time machine was conceived decades back. Rockets and satellites were invented by human mind much before they became reality. However, many incidents in real life are so strange and unique that they surpass the wildest human imagination and fiction. It is with a view to record one such subjective experience that the authorhas embarked upon this modest attempt at English prose. Master of Larceny is the true story of a perverted genius who joined the Indian Air Force sometime in 1965-66 and was arrested, tried by Court Martial, convicted of a series of thefts and incarcerated in 1970-71. All material facts stated in the book are true and authentic. However, some names have been changed to protect the identity of the person where required and minor details may be inaccurate due to lapse of time and memory. The author was intimately connected with the successful investigation of the entire case and prosecution of the culprits. He was commended by the Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Maintenance Command, IAF for tracking and running down the Master of Larceny and his gang. Therefore while some minor inaccuracies in matters of detail cannot be ruled out due to lapse of time, the veracity of all material facts is guaranteed. Although every effort been made to protect the identity of all persons involved in the incident, particularly those who came out in poor light, inquisitive minds and contemporaries may still be able to spot the characters with reference to the dates, places and appointments. The author therefore wishes to apologize if unwittingly the identity of any person is given away by unavoidable references.

Larceny in My Blood
Larceny in My Blood

Author: Matthew J. Parker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1101613726

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A fully illustrated graphic memoir of a child of the '60s who was raised into a life of crime and addiction —but graduated into freedom. Matthew Parker was in his mid-forties when he started college. He’d been sidetracked: Eleven years were eaten up by serving time in various county jails, state penitentiaries, and federal prison. He’d been arrested more than thirty times, racking up eight felonies in a crime career that began at age thirteen, when he started dealing pot. When he got out of prison for the last time and kicked his heroin addiction, he was determined to spend the next chapter of his life in the classroom. And he did just that, going on to complete a master’s degree from Columbia University’s highly competitive creative writing program. Through captivating black-and-white illustrations drawn in a distinctively primitive style, Larceny in My Blood flashes back on Parker's childhood, with memories of a loving but lawless mother teaching him that breaking the law was the way to survive. From there it moves to an account of Parker’s lost decades, where he resorted to petty crime to support a heroin habit. After years of fighting the system, Parker sees the light and Larceny in My Blood becomes a poignant portrait of a man trying to find his way in the straight and narrow. A unique memoir, Parker’s images and words form a mesmerizing road to redemption.