Category: True Crime

A Criminal and An Irishman: The Inside Story of the Boston Mob - IRA Connection

By: Nee, Patrick,Farrell, Richard,Blythe, Michael

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Steerforth : March 2007

Seller ID: 462584

ISBN-13: 9781586421229

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A former rival and associate of Whitey Bulger tells all in this searing true crime memoir about the inner workings of gang life After serving in Vietnam as a combat Marine, Irishman Pat Nee returned to the gang-filled streets of Boston. A member of the Mullen Gang since the age of 14, Nee rejoined the group to lead their fight against Whitey Bulger's Killeen brothers. Years later, the two gangs merged to form the Winter Hill Gang, at first led by Howie Winter and then by Bulger. But by the time Bulger took over, a wide rift had opened up between the infamous crime boss and Pat Nee, who was dis...
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A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio (True Crime History)

By: Greiner, James M.

Price: $12.98

Publisher: The Kent State University Press : September 2019

Seller ID: 388701

ISBN-13: 9781606353820

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A sensational murder, trial, and a young woman's execution in Depression-era New York At first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore "Sam" Antonio had all the trademarks of a gang-related murder. Shot five times, stabbed a dozen more, Antonio was left for dead. His body was rolled into a culvert on Castleton Road outside of Hudson, south of Albany, New York. It was only by chance that the mortally wounded Antonio was discovered and brought to the hospital. He died in the emergency room without ever naming his assailant. William H. Flubacher of the New York State Police arrived a...
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Brick agent: Inside the Mafia for the FBI

By: Villano, Anthony and Astor Gerald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The New York Times Book Co. : January 1977

Seller ID: 376080

ISBN-13: 9780812906875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

By: Standiford, Les,Matthews, Joe

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Ecco : March 2011

Seller ID: 468538

ISBN-13: 9780061983900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River"The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh's....A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice."--Scott Turow, author of Presumed InnocentThe abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh--son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series America's Most Wanted-...
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Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

By: Carney, Gene

Price: $6.98

Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS : June 2007

Seller ID: 457474

ISBN-13: 9781597971089

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to "fix" the 1919 World Series--the Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic works of sports history such as Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out, referred to in literary classics like W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, and has been central to two of the best baseball movies ever made, John Sayles's Eight Men Out and Phil Robinson's Field of Dreams. Many, however, would be surprised to learn that it took nearly a year to uncover the fix. Burying the Black Sox is the first book to focus on the cover-up that kept the fix from the Ame...
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Cardiac arrest

By: Spinks, Sarah

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Doubleday : January 1985

Seller ID: 420968

ISBN-13: 9780385195461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Carmine the Snake: Carmine Persico and His Murderous Mafia Family

By: Benson, Michael,Dimatteo, Frank

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Citadel : July 2019

Seller ID: 478040

ISBN-13: 9780806538822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy. minor shelf wear.
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

By: Abagnale, Frank W.,Redding, Stan

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Crown : August 2000

Seller ID: 354252

ISBN-13: 9780767905381

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college ...
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: O'Neill, Tom

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Back Bay Books : June 2020

Seller ID: 454669

ISBN-13: 9780316477543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his...
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Charles Manson: Conversations with a Killer: Manson's Life Behind Bars (Volume 2)

By: George, Edward,Matera, Dary

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Sterling : April 2020

Seller ID: 448112

ISBN-13: 9781454940869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is the gripping story of the real Charles Manson as told by his long-time prison administrator, counselor, unofficial "press agent," and confidant, Ed George. "Throughout my life, people have asked me about Manson. . . . 'Does he have hypnotic powers?' 'Does he have a diabolical charisma?' . . . 'Is he crazy?' My response is that for some people, the answer to all of the above is yes--except for the last question." --EDWARD GEORGE Charles Manson was perhaps the most infamous criminal of the twentieth century. Convicted for orchestrating the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, and for...
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Charles Manson: Conversations with a Killer: Manson's Life Behind Bars (Volume 2)

By: George, Edward,Matera, Dary

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Sterling : April 2020

Seller ID: 447651

ISBN-13: 9781454940869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This is the gripping story of the real Charles Manson as told by his long-time prison administrator, counselor, unofficial "press agent," and confidant, Ed George. "Throughout my life, people have asked me about Manson. . . . 'Does he have hypnotic powers?' 'Does he have a diabolical charisma?' . . . 'Is he crazy?' My response is that for some people, the answer to all of the above is yes--except for the last question." --EDWARD GEORGE Charles Manson was perhaps the most infamous criminal of the twentieth century. Convicted for orchestrating the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, and for...
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Contract Warriors

By: ROSEN, FRED

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Alpha Books : March 2005

Seller ID: 167843

ISBN-13: 9781592573028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The complete history of soldiers for hire." From Biblical times and the Crusades through the American Revolution up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, mercenaries professional soldiers who contract themselves out to the highest bidder have played a vital role in most, if not all, military and paramilitary campaigns, helping to determine the victors and the vanquished. "Contract Warriors" reveals their compelling story for the first time. Why they fight (and for how much) How they fight The unique lifestyle of mercenaries both on and off the battlefield The spoils and business of war The c...
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Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: An Interim Report (I L R Paperback)

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Ilr Pr : January 1988

Seller ID: 477617

ISBN-13: 9780875461366

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

By: Dickie, John

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : October 2005

Seller ID: 164281

ISBN-13: 9781403970428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread.In this gripping history of the Sicilian mafia, John Dickie uses startling new research to reveal the inner workings of this secret society with a murderous record. He explains how the mafia began, how it responds to threats and challenges, and introduces us to the real-life characters that inspired the American imagination for generatio...
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Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit

By: Lertzman, Richard A.,Davis, Lon

Price: $24.98

Publisher: BookBaby : December 2020

Seller ID: 382958

ISBN-13: 9781098341619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit is a new look at the true creation of the group of entertainers that rocked the world. For twenty-eight consecutive nights in February 1960, a dusty town called Las Vegas became the epicenter of the world. All eyes were on the party happening at the Sands Hotel and Casino, the new headquarters for The Chairman of the Board-- Frank Sinatra. In celebration of the Rat Pack's Sixtieth anniversary this book details the meteoric rise of this infamous group. For the first time, this outrageous, explosive tell-all book brings the inside scoop o...
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Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit

By: Lertzman, Richard A.,Davis, Lon

Price: $24.98

Publisher: BookBaby : December 2020

Seller ID: 459755

ISBN-13: 9781098341619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit is a new look at the true creation of the group of entertainers that rocked the world. For twenty-eight consecutive nights in February 1960, a dusty town called Las Vegas became the epicenter of the world. All eyes were on the party happening at the Sands Hotel and Casino, the new headquarters for The Chairman of the Board-- Frank Sinatra. In celebration of the Rat Pack's Sixtieth anniversary this book details the meteoric rise of this infamous group. For the first time, this outrageous, explosive tell-all book brings the inside scoop o...
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Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia - A True Story by FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone

By: Pistone, Joseph D.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Berkley : February 1997

Seller ID: 430677

ISBN-13: 9780451192578

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, connected guys, captains, and godfathers.Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys--their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings. With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world ...
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Macy, Beth

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : August 2018

Seller ID: 473855

ISBN-13: 9780316551243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy. Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans. In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices; wealthy suburbs to d...
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Cep, Casey

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Knopf : May 2019

Seller ID: 446137

ISBN-13: 9781101947869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today." --Southern Living Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With th...
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

By: English, T. J.

Price: $7.99

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : June 2009

Seller ID: 384072

ISBN-13: 9780061712746

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere--old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana & the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution.As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 50s, Mob leaders...
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Helter Skelter : The True Story of the Manson Murders

By: BUGLIOSI, VINCENT, GENTRY, CURT

Price: $16.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : December 2001

Seller ID: 364412

ISBN-13: 9780393322231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proport...
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Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent

By: Doyle, Paul E.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Northeastern University Press : May 2004

Seller ID: 413854

ISBN-13: 9781555536039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The mean streets of Boston in the 1970s played host to a nefarious underworld of pimps, pushers, and addicts, and Paul Sully Doyle was there. From Kenmore Square hippies to South Boston junkies to Combat Zone prostitutes, this undercover operative with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration met every type of unsavory character in town in his fight to bust violent rings of dope, coke, and smack dealers during a turbulent era in the city's history. Now Special Agent Doyle bluntly chronicles the riveting, true stories from his years on the inside. Known on the street by his alias, Paulie Sul...
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Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder

By: Edmonds, Andy

Price: $7.98

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : April 1989

Seller ID: 436547

ISBN-13: 9780688080617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the Presence of My Enemies

By: Burnham, Gracia

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Living Books : April 2004

Seller ID: 376311

ISBN-13: 9780842362399

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of the plight of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple captured and held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama Bin Laden. After a year of captivity, and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham return home in June 2002 with a bullet wound in the leg and amazing composure. In this riveting personal account, Burnham tells the real story behind the news about their harrowing ordeal, about how it affected their relationshi...
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Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th-Century Boy Murderer

By: Brumberg, Joan Jacobs

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Viking Adult : September 2003

Seller ID: 298851

ISBN-13: 9780670032280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The award-winning historian of American girlhood turns to boys to explore the phenomenon of juvenile murderers through the prism of a remarkable, century-old case. Most Americans regard "kids who kill" as a problem unique to our era. But in historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg's important new work, Kansas Charley, she reminds us that it is, tragically, a long-standing dilemma. Through the moving tale of Charles Miller, Brumberg takes us into a world of poverty, tragedy, and abuse, of people and places that shaped Miller's behavior, his crime, and his punishment. Orphaned at the age of six, Charles M...
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King of the Godfathers

By: DeStefano, Anthony

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Citadel : June 2008

Seller ID: 462618

ISBN-13: 9780806528748

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light discoloration to edges.
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Letters from Attica: 50th Anniversary Annotated Edition

By: Melville, Joshua,Melville, Sam

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Chicago Review Press : January 2022

Seller ID: 443403

ISBN-13: 9781641606950

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Now presented with a son's thirty years of research to provide new context. In June 1970, Sam Melville pleaded guilty to a series of politically motivated bombings in New York City and was sentenced to thirteen to eighteen years in jail. His imprisonment took him to Attica, where he helped lead the massive rebellion of September 9, 1971--and where, four days later, he was shot to death by state police. During nearly two years in prison, Melville wrote letters to his friends, his attorneys, his former wife, and his young son. To read them is to eavesdrop on a man's soul. Determinedly honest a...
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Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal

By: Harmon, Sandra

Price: $6.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : May 2010

Seller ID: 446453

ISBN-13: 9780312624170

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Scarpas were a Mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa, Sr., a man so addicted to killing that he was nicknamed 'The Grim Reaper'. His son, Gregory, Jr., worshiped him and was slowly drawn into his dark world. What no one but father and son knew was that for thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Scarpa, Sr. was an informant, working intimately with FBI handlers. For decades, his connection to the FBI protected him and gave him a virtual license to kill. But faced with arrest in the late 1980s, Greg dropped the dime on his own son. Gregory, Jr., was imprisoned alongside terrorist Ramzi Yousef. He o...
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Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Schneider, Spencer

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Arcade : July 2022

Seller ID: 477121

ISBN-13: 9781950994557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'

By: Manson, Charles

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press : June 1988

Seller ID: 443389

ISBN-13: 9780802130242

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words," Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to Manson In His Own Words, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the life and mind of the cult leader and notorious criminal. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders, and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition. Born in the middle of the Great Depression to an unmarried fifteen-year-old, Manson lived through a succession of changing homes and substitute parents, until his mother f...
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Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'

By: Manson, Charles

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press : June 1988

Seller ID: 443218

ISBN-13: 9780802130242

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words," Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to Manson In His Own Words, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the life and mind of the cult leader and notorious criminal. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders, and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition. Born in the middle of the Great Depression to an unmarried fifteen-year-old, Manson lived through a succession of changing homes and substitute parents, until his mother f...
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Murder and the Making of English CSI

By: Burney, Ian,Pemberton, Neil

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : October 2016

Seller ID: 465206

ISBN-13: 9781421420400

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, DJ intact, light wear to edges.
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Murder Under the Microscope: A Personal History of Homicide

By: Fraser, Jim

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Atlantic Books : November 2021

Seller ID: 459750

ISBN-13: 9781786495952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes 'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve. People are usually killed by someone they know, there is usually abundant evidence and the police methods used to investigate this type of crime are highly effective. But what about the more difficult cases, where the investigation involves an unusual death, an unusual killer, or is complex or politically charged? In these cases, bringing the...
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Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy

By: Brittain-Catlin, William

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Picador : June 2006

Seller ID: 458042

ISBN-13: 9780312425586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An unknown realm to many investors, offshore finance allows giant corporations--such as Wal-Mart, British Petroleum, and Citigroup--to legally keep huge profits out of sight of regulators and the public. William Brittain-Catlin tells the story of how tax havens in the Caribbean and elsewhere have become central to global finance today. He takes us through the secret networks of Enron and Parmalat, behind international trade disputes, and into organized crime and terror. This book gives disquieting evidence that, as a result of offshore practices, the key value of capitalism and civilization al...
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting

By: Shiffman, John

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : August 2015

Seller ID: 455168

ISBN-13: 9781451655162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: "An impressive and important work...The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched expos " (Christian Science Monitor). On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Developed and manufactured in the United States at extraordinary cost, these tiny weapons of war--which can guide missiles, see through walls, and trigger anything from a wireless ...
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

By: McManus, James

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 2003

Seller ID: 408686

ISBN-13: 9780374236489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science--and eros--of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by "Harper"'s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outre it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire "Harper"'s advance in ...
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Keefe, Patrick Radden

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Doubleday : June 2022

Seller ID: 420738

ISBN-13: 9780385548519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

By: Watson, Bruce

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Viking Adult : August 2007

Seller ID: 458104

ISBN-13: 9780670063536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The riveting true story of one of the nation's most infamous trials and executions When the state of Massachusetts electrocuted Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti on August 23, 1927, it concluded one of the most controversial legal cases in American history. In the eight decades since, debate has raged over what was probably a miscarriage of justice. In the first full-length narrative of the case in thirty years, Bruce Watson unwinds a gripping tale that opens with anarchist bombs going off in a posh Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concludes with worldwide outrage over the execution of ...
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Serial Killers

By: Innes, Brian

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Book Sales : November 2006

Seller ID: 98522

ISBN-13: 9781905204366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Organized chronologically, here are the stories of 50 murderers in American and world history. Each chapter provides a biography of one killer, describing the formative experiences that turned them into monsters, their hidden lives and gruesome crimes. It explains how each was caught, including descriptions of psychological profiles and crime investigation procedures, and their ultimate fate. Timelines and victim panels detail their atrocities and horrific death tolls. Dramatic black and white photography shows each killer at their sinister worst.
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Smokescreen : A True Adventure

By: SABBAG, ROBERT

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Pub Group West : December 2002

Seller ID: 99101

ISBN-13: 9781841953793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the writer of the drug-smuggling classic Snowblind comes a true story more hair-raising, high-octane, and heart-pounding than any fictional adventure thriller, as he relates the high times and fast living of America's greatest marijuana smuggler. of color photos.
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