"This IS A STICK-UP!"

I liked the old-style phrase; I thought it brought to mind the good-guy folk hero type of gangster like my idol John Dillinger. By then I had my heater out, the TT-33 automatic pistol I had taken from that commie bastard I killed so many years ago, and I made a semicircle sweep with the gun pointing just above the heads of everyone in the bank. The two customers in line I asked not so pleasantly to kiss the floor, and I waved the bank manager and the two officers out of their cubicles over to where I could see them.

Roberts, Kevin. Decker (Kindle Locations 323-327). Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLc. Kindle Edition.