~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction - 2004
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
Discover the little known bizarre and audacious tale of Attila Ambrus, a professional hockey player on the largest hockey team in Hungary during the 1990s who turned to robbing banks in order to make ends meet . . .
Recounting a story so outrageous that it could only be true, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is an uproariously funny and completely unforgettable account of a crime in the heart of new Europe.
"Ambrus's tale microcosmically condenses the politico-historic oddities of his place and era into one entertaining and tidy narrative. With a keen eye for the ridiculous, fearlessly high-speed prose and an extraordinary wealth of reported detail, Rubinstein conducts the affair like an unusually thoughtful carnival barker." -- New York Times Book Review