In his 2010 autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime, " Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals.

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His acclaimed 1964 book, "Gideon's Trumpet, " told the story of a petty thief whose fight for legal representation led to a landmark Supreme Court decision.

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He is a petty thief who comes a cropper when he falls in love with Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack) - a geeky, complex bag of a neuroses.

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Which is rather a dark thought really: that the heroin addict and petty thief who introduced Winehouse herself to the drug scene could be the beneficiary of her sadly shortened life.

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In his autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime, " Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals, according to the book's publisher, La Manufacture De Livres.

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In his 2010 autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime, " Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals, according to the book's publisher, La Manufacture De Livres.

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