Safecracker

A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World

Hardcover, 248 pages

Published July 1, 2021 by Lyons Press.

ISBN:
9781493058518

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4 stars (1 review)

You’ll ride shotgun with Dave for one crazy week, beginning with an impenetrable vault in Vegas with a midnight deadline, and ending with Prince’s ultra-secure music vault in the basement of Paisley Park. In between are factual stories that read like fiction: drilling the same model ATM from the notorious episode of Breaking Bad; meeting a mystery man from the Department of Defense at a remote location to crack two high security safes; chronicling the corruption and ineptitude that dogged efforts to develop the first electronic safe lock to guard our national secrets; tackling a hundred-year-old antique bank vault in downtown Salt Lake City, and more….

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Review of 'Safecracker' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

It was entertaining and interesting. I wish the photographs of the safes were better - it's hard to make out a lot of details.

I also would have enjoyed a few diagrams - he'll be going into detail about some component of the safe and you'll be "what is he talking about". There's kind of an expectation that the reader has more than a passing familiarity with what he's talking about.