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On The Brinks is an award-winning, bestselling memoir and true crime book about growing up in war-torn Belfast and the biggest robbery in U.S.A. history. Highly controversial, is has been critically-acclaimed by historians, Pulitzer Prize winners, and numerous newspaper and magazine critics, world-wide. The book was originally acquired by Warner Brothers, before they came under pressure to drop it by the Bush Administration. By any standards Sam Millar has led a remarkable life. This memoir divides comfortably between the North [of Ireland] and New York. Millar s vivid recollection of privations withstood during the blanket protest offers grim testimony to the limits of human endurance. Like others around him Millar would not be broken, even when political conviction was reduced to dogged resistance against a repressive prison regime.He then emigrated to New York, worked in illicit casinos. The American chapters unveil a gambling underworld run by New York s Irish gangs. The empire wasn t built to last but Millar eyed a much bigger prize…teaming up with an associate to rob $7.2 million from the hitherto impregnable Brinks Security operation in Rochester. It was a daring and bloodless heist…No one can dispute Sam Millar is an incredible survivor. Most certainly, a life less ordinary.All forms of biography take significant episodes in a life and join the dots in between. The dots in this memoir make compulsive reading… Irish Independent, Book Reviews
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