David Tallerman 
Outfit [EPUB ebook] 
The Absolutely True Story of the Time Joseph Stalin Robbed a Bank

Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise…In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili — who would later take the name Joseph Stalin — met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili’s poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan. With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili’s hardened crew of "expropriators, " they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia’s history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever…