The Outfit

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 Djugashvilis poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan. With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvilis hardened crew of expropriators, they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgias history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...