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'Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac . . . In those terms, Otto Katz was perfect. He was a Hollywood playboy who hobnobbed with Fritz Lang, he inspired the character of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca, he was...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-07-08
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
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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
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2010-07-01
ePub
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Gaius Petreius Ruso, doctor to the Legions, is about to return home to Gaul after many years' absence. Little does he realize the letter summoning him back has been forged, or that the sunny Mediterranean lifestyle conceals a dark threat lurking at every corner. His...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-29
ePub
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The Monster of Florence, which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010, is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000, Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of...
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Virgin Digital
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2010-04-27
ePub
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You couldn't make it up: incredible real-life criminal casesA fascinating A-Z of murderous crimes which spans the globe and the centuries in uncovering the extremes of human criminality in all its strangeness.This collection of unusual, if not sensational, murder cases...
Editeur :
C & r Crime
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2010-03-25
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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WE THINK OF HUMAN LIFE AS PRICELESS, BUT THERE ARE MEN AMONG US WHO WILL END A LIFE FOR A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. These men are the hit men, striking a contract with someone who has a target and the cash. The Hit Men tells the stories of some of Australia's most ruthless...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2010-03-01
ePub
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Political idealism? Financial reward? The thrill of the chase? What drives a person to risk their life by entering the deadly world of high-level espionage? A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, this exploration of the world’s...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2010-03-01
ePub
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**Now a major Netflix film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel**~The Irishman is an epic saga of organised crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-02-18
ePub
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Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes. Before his trial, many assumed he was an over-zealous GP who went too far in providing comfort to dying...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2010-01-04
ePub
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'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting true crime, non-fiction pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-12-23
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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Growing up in Tarpon Springs, Florida - the seaside headquarters of the Greek mafia - Kevin Cunningham fell in love with Greek culture and hoped to become part of it. But when he was seventeen his world turned upside-down: from his deathbed, the man he'd always called...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-11-05
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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He was a pillar of the community, serving on local committees, donating prizes to the rugby club, organising charity collections. His patients thought the world of him: he was attentive, kind, never too busy to chat. Yet Dr Harold Frederick Shipman was also the most...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-09-03
ePub
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In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-08-27
ePub
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THE LAST GODFATHERS charts the spectacular rise and fall of the richest and most powerful crime family in history: the Sicilian mafia’s Corleonese clan. From humble post-war origins in the dismal town of Corleone, the clan manipulated Cosa Nostra’s code of honour to...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-06-08
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
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