Chapter Twenty
Motorcycle Incident
“They are winning and we are looking like idiots.
The media has already labeled us The Blind Cops.”
As the courier thieves became more brazen, they demonstrated their skills and creativity by constantly altering and improving their tactics. Each incident was more audacious than the last. The motorway hold-up was a perfect demonstration of the robbers’ ability to coordinate several elements and bring off the robbery without any losses or mistakes.
The chosen location was new: the A13/E45 high-speed motorway that ran south from Germany, through Austria and into Italy. It was a toll road and heavily traveled. One spring afternoon, an armored courier truck from Augsburg was proceeding south and had just passed through a control point outside Igles, Aust
