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Chinese Intelligence Operations - Paperback

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by Nicholas Eftimiades (Author)Please note this book was written in 1994. From Publishers Weekly: Written by a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, this is a straightforward examination of the structure, operations and methodology of the intelligence services of the People's Republic of China. Eftimiades describes how the Ministry of State Security--China's preeminent civilian intelligence-gathering entity--draws on the services of diplomats, commercial representatives, Chinese communities in...

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by Alexandre Dumas (Author)This antiquarian book contains the fourth instalment of the final episode in the fantastic d'Artagnan Romances, "The Man in the Iron Mask". Thirty-five years after the events of the last episode, the famous foursome become divided when they find themselves on opposing sides in a fierce struggle for power that threatens to undermine the young king and revolutionise the French monarchy. A masterful retelling of a true account, "The Man in the Iron Mask" constitutes a ...

Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence Analysis - Paperback

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by Center For the Study of Intelligence (Author), Robert S. Sinclair (Author)This book describes some of the powerful metaphors that have developed over the past two decades about the workings of our minds including cognitive science (which embraces several disciplines, notably computer science, linguistics, neurophysiology and psychology), in an attempt to apply those metaphors to the workings of the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. These findings have obvious implications for the way the ...

The True Story of The Kelly Gang of Bushrangers - Paperback

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by C. H. Chomley (Author)This vintage book contains an detailed account of the Kelly Gang and their various exploits, painstakingly composed by the author from official documents, contemporary newspapers, and other sources of information. The Kelly Gang was a family criminal gang of bush-rangers that rose to infamy in in late nineteenth-century Australia for a litany of crimes ranging from horse rustling to bank robbery. Contents include: "The Murders on the Wombat", "Finding the Bodies", "Th...

Gone with The Night: The Rape Slaying Trial - Paperback

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by Robert K. Boscarato (Author)Delton Dowthitt, 16, had dropped out of ninth grade that spring and moved out of his mother's home in Oak Ridge North. Dennis Dowthitt, 45, ran a shabby used car lot in nearby Humble. By contrast, Gracie Purnhagen, 16 and sister Tiffany, 9, came from a stable home. At about 8:45 p.m., Dennis Dowthitt's white pickup truck cruised into the bowling alley parking lot and witnesses saw the Purnhagen girls get in. Dennis Dowthitt slid out of the truck and said, "I mes...

Untying the Knot: John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three - Paperback

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by Greg Day (Author)On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies were discovered in a drainage ditch less than a mile away. After a troublesome confession, three local teenagers, later dubbed the "West Memphis Three," were arrested, tried, and convicted in early 1994. Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley received life sentences, while ringlea...

Untying the Knot: John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three - Hardcover

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The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged? - Paperback

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by Perry Deane Young (Author)Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in self defense. The laws of that time would not allow her to take the...

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by Andrea Reynolds (Author)Andréa Reynolds was Claus von Bulow's mistress from 1982 to 1987, and she helped him successfully appeal his conviction of attempted murder, for which he had been sentenced to thirty-two years in prison. Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 of two counts of attempted murder of his wife, the immensely wealthy heiress Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. His wife was rich, beautiful, and American-and the case stirred up a firestorm of coverage in the tabloids and mainstream press. Bu...

American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas - Paperback

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by Frank Romano (Author)As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath. Finally, after all this time, his opportunity to seek justice has arrived. As Judge Jones bangs his gavel, a trial to determine the responsibility for the largest cheating scandal in Nevada Gaming History begins. Several years earlier, beneath the neon lights of Las Vegas, Romano became a partner in the American Coin Company. In the 1980s, as the company grew to be the third l...

American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas - Hardcover

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Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology - Paperback

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by John P. Sullivan (Author), Robert J. Bunker (Editor)In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies-21st century war and conflict waged by non-state entities- and the impact this new form of warfare is having on states. For this, we embrace them and hav...

OAK ISLAND - Mystery FINALLY SOLVED !!!: OAK Island - Finally revels itself - Paperback

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by G. S. Chopra (Author)Oak Island Treasure - Mystery Finally Solved... From Pirates to secret societies, from Bank of England to the Royal Bank of Scotland, From Canada to Asia... see how all of these are connected in solving this worlds greatest unsolved mystery... This is a result of over 20 years of in depth research.... These are all theories put down that will fascinate you...Author BiographyDr Chopra is a renowned historian who has taken personal interest in looking at unsolved mysteri...

Dark Bayou: Infamous Louisiana Homicides - Paperback

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by Alan G. Gauthreaux (Author), D. G. Hippensteel (Author)This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes: the rise of the first Mafia godfather in the United States; the murder of two New Orleans police chiefs; the brutal murder of a famous Ne...

Death of an Altar Boy: The Unsolved Murder of Danny Croteau and the Culture of Abuse in the Catholic Church - Paperback

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by E. J. Fleming (Author)The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of assaults within the Catholic Church--exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications--including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors--pointing to him as Croteau's killer, the Reverend Richard R. Lavigne remains innocent. Drawing on more than 10,000 pages of police and court records and interviews with Danny's ...

Teaching about Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors - Paperback

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by Samuel Totten (Editor)Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught that have been particularly successful with their students.Author BiographySamuel Totten a longtime scholar of genocide studies and retired professor (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), is the author of Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Fundamental ...

Forensics by the Stars: Astrology Investigates - Paperback

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by B. D. Salerno (Author)Detectives and CSI crews may work for weeks, months, sometimes years searching and piecing together forensic evidence to find the vital clues in solving a crime. With the use of planetary positions, houses, fixed stars and Arabic parts, forensic astrology gives investigators a head-start in discovering valuable information that can hasten crime solving. In Forensics by the Stars, author B. D. Salerno, an astrologer for more than twenty years, provides insight into the...

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by Imogene Angel (Author)Can a naive southern girl and single mother of three sons thrive in the glamorous world of the rich and famous? Can she survive the seedy world of meth addicts to protect the lives of five beautiful, innocent little girls? Can she do all this while traveling the world and protecting her own family? It will surprise you what a tiny, headstrong Irish woman can accomplish when she is forced to confront evil. Go with the Author to tour the world and meet famous actors at ...

Fire Cops: On the Case with America's Arson Investigators - Paperback

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by Michael Sasser (Author)From the big cities to dense forests to disasters at sea, authors Michael Sasser and Charles W. Sasser present some of the toughest cases and most harrowing missions faced by arson investigators. A brutal inferno snuffs out the lives of eighty-seven at the Happy Land Social Club in New York City... The Branch Davidians torch their compound in Waco, Texas, killing eighty-one men, women and children... Flames engulf the streets of Detroit on its deadliest Devil's Day.....

A Lynching in Little Dixie: The Life and Death of James T. Scott, ca. 1885-1923 - Paperback

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by Patricia L. Roberts (Author)James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World War I veteran was dragged from jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge before 1000 onlookers. Patricia L. Roberts lived most of her life unaware that her aunt was the girl who erroneously accused Scott, only learning of it from a 2003 account in the University of Missouri's school newspaper. Drawing on archi...

Justice Perverted: The Molestation Mistrial of Richard Charles Haefner - Paperback

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by Derek J. Sherwood (Author)In 1975, Dr. Richard Charles Haefner had it all--a Ph.D. from Penn State University, a prestigious job offer with UCLA and a thriving family business. Then it all came crashing down. Two boys who worked for Haefner accused him of sexual molestation, but allegations of police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, bribery and corruption soon overshadowed what seemed like an open-and-shut-case, ultimately resulting in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's amending state la...

The Gambia: The Untold Dictator Yahya Jammeh's Story - Paperback

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by Pa Nderry M'Bai (Author)This book is a masterpiece. It is a non-fictional book. It contains firsthand account information of some of the alleged murders, tortures, and disappearances that had taken place under the administration of Gambia's iron fist dictator President Yahya Jammeh. The author had interviewed a wide range of sources-some of whom are still serving in Mr. Jammeh's administration, while some of the sources have parted company with the Gambian dictator. You will be missing out...

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Greenwood (Author)"A delightful read for anyone tantalized by the prospect of disappearing without a trace." --Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake "Delivers all the lo-fi spy shenanigans and caught-red-handed schadenfreude you're hoping for." --NPR "A lively romp." --The Boston Globe "Grim fun." --The New York Times "Brilliant topic, absorbing book." --The Seattle Times "The most literally escapist summer read you could hope for." --The Paris ReviewIs it s...

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by John Partington (Author), Arlene Violet (Author)This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement's frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government-r...

Pardonable Matricide: Robert Irving Latimer, from Michigan's

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by Tobin T. Buhk (Author) In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer. This book follows Captain Boyle to the bordellos of gaslight-era Detroit--populated by madams, pimps, prostitutes and gamblers. It describes the investigation that led him to a pharmacist that prowled the streets, akin to a re...

A Deadly Silence: The Cold-Blooded Massacre of Three Vibrant Young Girls and the Devastating Effects on Their Survivors - Paperback

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by Adele Sweetman (Author)A Deadly Silence tells a true story set in Annandale, an exclusive Pasadena neighborhood overlooking the Rose Bowl-an unlikely backdrop for a triple homicide. David Adkins and his girlfriend, Kathy Macaulay, had been dating for four years, but it hadn't been good lately. He could feel her pulling away, and he wasn't going to allow that to happen. Kathy and two of her friends, Heather Goodwin and Danae Palermo, were having a sleepover when David and two of his friends...

How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent - Paperback

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by Naveed Jamali (Author), Ellis Henican (Author)With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a "page-turner of a memoir" (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City. For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his belove...

The Bisbee Massacre: Robbery, Murder and Retribution in the Arizona Territory, 1883-1884 - Paperback

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by David Grassé (Author)In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist was national news, with the subsequent manhunt, trial and execution of the alleged perpetrators followed by newspapers from New York to San Francisco. The Bisbee Massacre was as momentous as the infamous blood feud between t...

Words of a Monster: Analyzing the Writings of H.H. Holmes, America's First Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Rebecca Frost (Author) Decades before the term "serial killer" was coined, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago "Murder Castle." In his autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century. As the "first"--or, as he labeled himself, "The Greatest Criminal of the Age"--he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow. Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scratch. Th...

Joe Dogs: The Life & Crimes of a Mobster - Paperback

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by Joseph Iannuzzi (Author)This riveting autobiography shares the bone-rattling reality of a mobster whose rise to stardom in the crime world was cut short by a savage beating from his "friends," leading to his move for ultimate revenge of becoming an informant for the FBI. Joe Dogs is a true account of the Mafia as it has never been seen, written by an insider whose style is as authentic, brutal, and hard-edged as the world he inhabited. From the hideaways and the girls to the deals and the ...

Hot Tickets: Crimes, Championships and Big Time Sports at the University of Kansas - Paperback

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by H. George Frederickson (Author) In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the bigge...

Nittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938-1940 and the Panic at Penn State - Paperback

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by Derek J. Sherwood (Author) As the Great Depression hit, Penn State College was cash-strapped and dilapidated. Cuts to athletic scholarships left the football program a shambles and the school a last resort for many students. In 1937, underfunded state police, fighting a losing battle against striking miners and steel workers in Johnstown, called in the National Guard. There were not enough police to cover the state, and it showed. Then someone started killing young women in the area. Betw...