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Organised crime puts on a smiley face.When the Summer of Love hit Britain in ’88, Wayne embraced the bright new world of dance music, MDMA and all-night celebrations. But alongside the ecstasy, his natural East End entrepreneurial instincts kicked in, and he began to...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2018-03-22
ePub
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Miami, December 31, 1979. Lock your doors. Watch your backs. Raise your glasses. Miami is about to blow, in a fiery explosion of cocaine, blood, bullets, torched cars, cash, immigrants, hustlers, dopers, informants, corruption, body bags and inner tubes. In the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2018-01-25
ePub
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The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Ã?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I. For six terrifying months in...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-10-03
ePub
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe unbelievable true story of the man now pardoned by President Trump In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2017-05-04
ePub
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Discover the truth about the Black Hand, as featured in Peaky Blinders Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-04-27
ePub
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In January 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million US Government contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammo from Balkan...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-01
ePub
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'Undercover, you're never just acting; you're only ever a different version of yourself.'Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover policeman, befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-08-18
ePub
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Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-01-14
ePub
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The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present.Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor,...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2015-07-28
ePub
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40 YEARS WITH THE KRAYS is the untold, intimate history of the twins and the woman who raised them. Told with humour and insight, it looks back across the decades at the life of this close knit, notorious East End family. Maureen Flanagan, a then 20 year old hairdresser...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2015-07-02
ePub
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* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** Future-proof yourself and your business by reading this book* Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-02-24
ePub
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Imagine a company so big and so powerful that its annual turnover is equal in size to China's entire GDP. A company whose gross turnover for just one financial year is sufficient to buy at current market value the world's three largest public companies: General...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2014-10-23
ePub
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From the creator of hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen______________________________Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.The Dark Net is just a click away.Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast network of sites, communities and cultures where freedom...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2014-08-17
ePub
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The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB CITY.Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America – until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed and the decline of traditional crime-family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi.Born into one of the New York Mob’s feared Five Families, Polisi ran an illegal...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-05-09
ePub
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‘One day in April 1957 I had just answered a letter from an expert in unarmed combat writing from a cover address in Mexico City, and I was thanking a fan in Chile, when my telephone rang…’The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland...
Editeur :
C & r Crime
Parution :
2012-04-19
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity.From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia,John Gotti thought he was invincible. Ruthless, brutal and always immaculately dressed, he was known as the Teflon Don, because no charge the Feds brought...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-04-12
ePub
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The incredible bestselling true story of the rise and reign of the most wanted criminal in history, told by the one man who was with him every step of the way - his brother Roberto.Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-03-15
ePub
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Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters. From the razor gangs of the 1920s to the post-war gangleaders Billy Hill and Jack Spot; from the pre-war French pimps and...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2012-03-01
ePub
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