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Armour and Fire: The North Hollywood Shootout - A True Crime Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when two heavily armed bank robbers walk into Los Angeles expecting an easy score-and instead trigger one of the most violent shootouts in American police history?
On the morning of February 28, 1997, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered a Bank of America branch in North Hollywood wearing body armour, carrying illegally modified automatic rifles, and believing they had planned the perfect robbery.
They were wrong.
In Armour and Fire, James Hutchinson delivers a gripping, fast-paced true crime account of the infamous North Hollywood Shootout-the 44-minute gun battle that stunned America, left officers and civilians wounded, changed police tactics forever, and exposed what happens when criminal ambition meets battlefield firepower in the middle of a city street.
From the origins of the two gunmen and the planning behind the robbery, to the chaos inside the bank, the eruption of gunfire in the parking lot, the civilian terror, the police response, and the bloody final reckoning, this book reconstructs the event with cinematic intensity and factual weight.
Built from extensive research and written in a tense, clear narrative style, Armour and Fire is more than a retelling of a famous crime. It is a close-up look at fear, force, survival, and the moment modern policing changed in real time on live television.
Inside this book:
The backgrounds of Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu
The planning, weapons, armour, and strategy behind the robbery
A minute-by-minute account of the 44-minute firefight
The officers and civilians caught in the crossfire
The SWAT response and final collapse of the gunmen's plan
The lasting impact on LAPD tactics and law enforcement across America
For readers of true crime, police history, tactical nonfiction, and real-life survival under fire, Armour and Fire is a hard-hitting account of one of the most unforgettable urban gun battles ever captured on camera.
Some crimes are over in minutes.
This one changed America in 44.
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