YOUTH CENTER: Pick of the Week: "Lifted" by Evan Ratliff

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Pick of the Week

Lifted

Evan Ratliff • The Atavist

The robbers had a helicopter, explosives, and inside information on a $150 million cash repository. But the police were on to them—sort of. Inside one of history's most elaborate heists, and the race to unravel it.

On the bright afternoon of September 2, 2009, two men sat on a bench in Stockholm. One was medium height with a reddish-blond beard and sunglasses. He wore a gray suit with an open-collar shirt. The other, a squat man with dark hair and an olive complexion, had on a green military-style jacket. The bench was one of a half dozen along a marina on the north end of Skeppsholmen, a small island situated where the fresh waters coursing around the city begin to mingle with the Baltic Sea. [...]

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