"It wasn't just a monetary robbery, but a symbolic one. The Northern Bank building is a great 1970s edifice in concrete: a building you can imagine Bill Bixby walking out of, coat over shoulder, in the credits for The Incredible Hulk."
Me on Glenn Patterson's book about the IRA's £26.5m bank job:
thetimes.com
How the IRA stole £26.5 million in a single night — and got away with it
In The Northern Bank Job, Glenn Patterson masterfully narrates the details of the infamous Belfast heist. But the bigger question, he argues, is why the thieves did it
