This book was written by Robert Knuckle, based in part on the research of Ed Arnold, the managing editor of the Peterborough Examiner.
Arnold, who has won six Canadian Press awards, has been with the Examiner for twenty-five years. In 1988 he broke the story of Galvan’s exploits and capture and dubbed him the Flying Bandit. Intending to write a book, Arnold spent two years interviewing Galvan and many others involved in the story. He stopped work on the project in 1993.
In 1995, after Robert Knuckle decided to write a book about the Flying Bandit, he was denied visiting rights to Galvan by the warden of the maximum security Oxford Correctional Institute in Wisconsin, and Arnold agreed to allow him to use his notes. Knuckle broadened the research base of the project by corresponding with Galvan and holding extensive interviews with most of the other principals.