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Ann Rule's crime files volume 5
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Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Brendan Hughes' gritty, fast-paced memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Irish Republican Army in the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes reveals how his secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in 1973 and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation's armed resistance to British rule. For the first time, he also tells the inside story of how...
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TONY ANTHONY knew no fear. Three-times World Kung Fu Champion, he was self-assured, powerful and at the pinnacle of his art. An extraordinary career awaited him. Working in the higher echelons of close protection security, he travelled the globe, guarding some of the world's wealthiest, most powerful, and influential people. This fast paced, compelling and, at times, chilling account is Tony's deeply moving true story. More extraordinary than fantasy,...
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"El libro de Sean lleva al lector a través de dos años y medio de horrible decepción y muerte, y más de 40 años de encerrar las emociones y la verdad. Su compasión aflora cuando describe las secuelas del trastorno de estrés postraumático. Se trata de una narración estremecedora e inquietante, pero existe la sensación de que conocer la verdad nos invita a cambiar la realidad de nuestra historia de amor con el ejército. Podemos despertar,...
6) The Iron Heart Reinhard Heydrich: Captivating Story of the Jewish Holocaust Architect, Reinhard H
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, known to the Nazis as The Blond Beast and to others as Hangman Heydrich, was the main architect of Hitler's Final Solution, and one among the main architects of the Holocaust in which the Nazis intended to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. Heydrich was a cold, calculating manipulator without empathy. Heydrich was described as a guy with ruthless, brave, and cold intelligence for whom truth and goodness...
7) Scary Deaths
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The human brain is designed to look into the future, but with limitations. The only certainty that exists in life is that everyone dies; but despite this, the brain hides it for fear of maddening its bearer. This truth usually emerges from time to time as a "Fear of death". The fear that that moment will come and that there will be neither present nor future ends up being inevitable. The way it arrives adds uncertainty and horror: will it be sudden...
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"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas."The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had just launched a new consumer-oriented investigative feature by hiring flamboyant former lawman Marvin Zindler to seize the spotlight. The roads from those disparate events crossed quickly...
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Gachiakuta volume 1
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Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich, who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any...
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Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered...
11) American heist
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Saban
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2015.
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English
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Two brothers, both with troubled pasts, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
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Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of gangster Johnny Martorano in Hitman.
For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty mob murders-for which Johnny would serve twelve years in...
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This true short story is the first three chapters of my autobiography which should be published in its entirety in July of 2018. I have split my autobiography up, for now at least, because of its length, plus this book that you are about to read deals strictly with my youth. I was for some time, a drug trafficker and gangster once I progressed past high school, but, this book shows how an average teenager can turn into a thug given the right set of...
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After playing what seemed like an endless cat and mouse proffer game with the United States Department of Justice for 5 + years, spending north of 100k on lawyers, and living in a sort of purgatory during which I knew I might serve 3 years in prison at the end of that endless process, I was finally at age 69 mercifully sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison for the first time in my life. And not just any old prison, mind you, but a facility...
15) Midnight Express
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Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name.In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport...
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Did Myra Hindley fall in love with the wrong man, a violent man, who fantasized about killing children?There is no doubt that Ian Brady was evil.But perhaps he was merely sleeping with the devil.Perhaps Myra was always meant to be a woman who was a serial killer, a female serial killer who preyed upon children.She and Ian did kill children. They did it for the fun of it. Ian got off on it. He loved the sex and so did Myra.They were sick. They were...
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A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case says about the role of clergy in America.
On the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He called for help, but it was too late. Two trials and eight years later, the founder of the largest reform synagogue in southern New Jersey became the first rabbi...
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A collection of poetry and prose by six incarcerated men. Featuring an introduction by Amber Epps and an afterword by novelist John Edgar Wideman. The six authors of Life Sentences―Fly, Faruq, Khalifa, Malakki, Oscar, and Shawn―met at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh and came together in 2013 to form the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice. The men met weekly for years, along with other writers, activists,...
19) Bushranger Gold
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A true story. In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of £6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were searching the bush for the audacious bushrangers who numbered between 6 and 15 depending on who was telling the story. Despite aboriginal trackers and extensive searches, they could not be found. The full weight of the constabulary was thrown behind...
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"One of the most beguiling criminal memoirs ever written….A rare gem of a book." - T. J. English, New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne
How did the son of a decorated policeman grow up to be one of Boston's most notorious criminals? How did he survive a decades-long feud with the FBI? How did he escape one jail sentence with a fake gun carved out of soap? How did he trade the return of a famous Rembrandt for early release from another...
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