Of course my dad fought me. We didn't speak for 25 years over that. Shaw became a very skilled burglar. Said Mobilian Linda H. Cooper, a potential investor in the hoped-for movie production who may play an on-screen part in the movie Shaw wants to make, "He was so good and so clever and so quiet that some people never knew they were burglarized for two or three weeks. Insurance companies wouldn't pay because they thought they had done a scam. There was no evidence. It was just in and out, that's how fast.
Eventually, he slowed down. Sooner or later if you are not done by 40 you are really pushing your luck in your 50s and 60s with it. I stayed with it for as long as I could keep up and then I just had enough. I was old. I was past my prime. I couldn't cut it anymore. My guys were taking chances coming back for me.
So he retired and went into the valet business to earn a "legitimate living," he said. Eventually, Shaw reconnected with his father, who died 18 months later from prostate cancer, in Shaw's mother had died in , the same year Shaw was released from prison. He said, 'You've wasted your whole life trying to avenge your dad's life. You tried to avenge what society had done to me, and you are just throwing your whole life away. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of A License to Steal. Feb 22, Alberto Lopez rated it liked it. An engaging tragedy. Two exceptional people, a son and his father, face their poorly dealt cards. Feb 25, Colette added it. An interesting perspective of a jewel thief's life. Guided in life by his hatred of the rich for the slights against his father, Walter T. Shaw took up a life a crime. In this book he explains how watching his genius father get robbed of his inventions ie: the conference call, Walter Shaw decided poverty was not the life for him, and joining up with mafia, became a wiseguy and a world class jewel thief.
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