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It was a time of hope and desperation, a time of reckoning . . .In the early 1960s, the Mad Men era, a mood of menace gripped New York City. The crime rate was growing and violence was becoming a daily reality for citizens in every neighbourhood. At the centre of the...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-07
ePub
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Peter Manuel was an icy-eyed psychopath and sexual predator, a petty thief and a relentless liar given to violent and uncontrollable rages. His unprecedented crimes presented the Scottish police and public with a new sort of criminal: the ruthless serial killer. Manuel...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-01
ePub
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Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-01
ePub
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Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-03-29
ePub
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Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-18
ePub
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The Hells Angels.The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.After a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, Caine fell...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-11
ePub
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'An astonishing story' - Sunday Mirror'The best gangster book of modern times' - Donal MacIntyreGangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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In December 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys firm were executed in their Range Rover after being lured to a deserted farm track by the promise of a lucrative drug deal. The police predicted that the void left as a result of the murders would cause a...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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When ruthless drug baron John Haase was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for heroin-trafficking in 1995, it was a major victory for Customs and the police. But in a shock move, after Haase and his partner Paul Bennett had served only 11 months, then Home Secretary...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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Three of the world's greatest detectives - a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and an eccentric profiler known as 'the living Sherlock Holmes' - were distraught at the growing tide of unsolved murders. And so William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-02-17
ePub
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Reflective practice is a key element of both police training and police practice in the 21st century. This text provides an essential guide to reflective practice for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in policing. Taking an accessible and practical...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2011-02-15
PDF, ePub
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The rise - and fall - of the outlaw lords of the drug world, from the Cali Cartel, the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history, to Britain's biggest drug baron, Curtis 'Cocky' Warren and the 'Essex Triple Murders'. From freewheeling cannabis operations to the...
Editeur :
C & r Crime
Parution :
2011-01-27
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Mammoth Books
ePub
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For almost four decades, Margaret 'Mags' McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband, Tam, the notorious 'Licensee', amassed a fortune by leading a safe-cracking gang before masterminding a spectacular £50-million drugs racket.Mags was a devotee of Tarot cards and...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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True Storey is the compelling autobiography of notorious 1970s football legend Peter Storey, dubbed 'the bastard's bastard', who gained a reputation for ultra-violence on the pitch and had a capacity to find even greater trouble off it - a fact borne out by a string of...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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WITH EXCLUSIVE DEATH ROW INTERVIEWYears after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and brought the city of Los Angeles to a standstill, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture and sadistic murder.Based on three years of meticulous research and extensive interviews...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcher is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a drug-dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family....
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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Philip Carlo's successful and acclaimed books reveal the truth about notorious characters such as LA serial killer Richard Ramirez, Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski and crime-family boss Anthony Casso. Working closely with the DEA , Carlo also wrote the...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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____________________‘This book will make you think… it will frighten you, and it will shock you… Frankly I could not read it at night.’ – Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted BundyHOW DO YOU CATCH A SERIAL KILLER?Interpreting...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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