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In August 1955 two men fought on the corner of Frith Street and Old Compton Street, Soho. From the dreadful injuries they inflicted on each other it easily could have been a hanging matter, but ironically it became known as 'The Fight that Never Was'. It was, however,...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2012-03-01
ePub
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Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer and true-life inspiration for the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-02-09
ePub
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It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in gangland lore: in 1941, while Abe Reles and three other key informants were under round-the-clock NYPD protection, the ruthless and powerful thug took a deadly plunge from the window of a Coney Island hotel. The first...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
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2012-02-07
ePub
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Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism,...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2011-11-30
ePub
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Badfellas is the definitive account by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams, of how organized crime evolved in Ireland over the past four decades.Drawing on his vast inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, an unparalleled range of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-10-27
ePub
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An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other. Hidden away from mainstream society behind multiple layers of secrecy, mythology and a sophisticated campaign of misinformation that portrays them as nothing more than loveable rogues, the brutal truth about...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-08-04
ePub
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Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-09-28
ePub
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Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them. After they were jailed in 1969 for thirty years for murder, Pearson's biography The Profession of Violence enjoyed a cult...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-09-02
ePub
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Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.' Such is the fate of many who...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-09-02
ePub
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A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max----------EITHER ERASE THE STORY, OR WE'LL ERASE YOU. AND MAYBE YOUR FAMILY. BUT WE'LL DO THEM FIRST, SO YOU LEARN...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2010-07-08
ePub
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The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s and '60s, to date precious little has been revealed about their formative years. Reggie wrote his EAST...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2010-07-01
ePub
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'A fascinating look behind closed lock-up doors'Evening StandardEast End Gangland is a true crime classic, now updated and expanded. Bestselling author James Morton tracks the changing face of the East End from the 1870s to now, through opium dens and racecourse gangs,...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-12-03
ePub
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Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2009-10-23
ePub
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Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the cutlass-and-peg-leg stereotype of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-09-04
ePub
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From the bestselling author of GANGLAND BRITAIN and REEFER MEN.Organised crime is one of Britain's biggest industries. The number of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, along with the levels of drug trafficking, people smuggling and money laundering, have all...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-06-08
ePub
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The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code,The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor,The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess,The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King's murder, Opus Dei,The Gemstone Files, John Paul I,...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2009-06-01
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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**Now a major BBC series starring James Norton**Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam?Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through the new world of international organised...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-04-13
ePub
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Hard man Ross Kemp journeys into dark heart of some of the most notorious gangs on earth in Gangs II.Ross Kemp once again squares up to the world's deadliest gangsters in this breathtaking follow up to the bestselling Gangs. This time his travels take him as close to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-09-25
ePub
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Over the years, both inside and out (though mainly in) he met and associated with many armed robbers, and in Raiders he tells their amazing stories. Like Big Bad Bob, the Scotsman who raided bureaux de change 'armed' only with a water-pistol; Steve the Saint, who risked...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-08-02
ePub
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COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2007-03-08
ePub
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