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Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence - Paperback

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by Amos Gilboa (Author), Ephraim Lapid (Author)Israeli intelligence has been known for decades, for its effectiveness, imagination and bravery, while its determined willingness to fight against global terrorism has witnessed some spectacular and audacious results. But what is it really like inside the Israeli intelligence community? What drove it to become one of the premier Intelligence services in the world? Who are the men and women behind it? In this observant and enthralling book, Israe...

Blood and Fire: The Duke of Windsor and the strange murder of Sir Harry Oakes. (p/b) - Paperback

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by John Marquis (Author)When news of Sir Harry Oakes' murder broke to the world on the morning of July, 8, 1943, one man was more concerned than most. He was the Duke of Windsor, then Governor of the British colony, whose job it was to ensure that the killer was caught and brought to justice. However, the Duke's actions in the aftermath of the 20th. century's greatest murder mystery raised more questions than answers, and cast doubt on his own intentions in calling in two Miami investigators ...

A Species of Insanity: The Story of Drug Kingpin Jerry Allen LeQuire - Paperback

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by Richard B. Biggs (Author)GET YOUR COPY OF RICHARD BIGGS' BEST SELLING NON-FICTION PAPERBACK Are you intrigued by tales of cocaine smuggling? If so, A SPECIES OF INSANITY will challenge your thoughts about the government's war on drugs and incite you for its willingness to subvert justice to extract revenge. When Maryville, TN native Jerry LeQuire works his way into the Medellin Drug Cartel, he becomes immensely wealthy. But when the CIA offers to help, not even famed lawyer F. Lee Bailey c...

Why Marijuana Should Be Legal - Paperback

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by Ed Rosenthal (Author), Steve Kubby (Author), S. Newhart (With)Marijuana hit mainstream America over 30 years ago and has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is more popular now than ever. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal analyzes the effects of marijuana and marijuana laws on society. The book addresses the drug's industrial and medical applications, preserving our Constitutional rights, economic costs, health...

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by Forrest B. Bowman Jr (Author)In 1965 Forrest Bowman Jr. was counsel for sixteen-year-old Coy Hubbard and thirteen-year-old John Baniszewski who, along with his mother, his seventeen-year-old and pregnant sister, Paula and fourteen-year-old Richard Hobbs were charged with First Degree Murder in the torture death of sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens. The trial, which lasted a month, was front page news on a daily basis in Indianapolis and attracted media attention throughtout the country and oc...

Silent Necrosis: Mano Negra (Jose Martinez) - Paperback

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by W. Roseberry (Author)We ourselves question if the Black Hand; is the Antagonist, or the protagonist of this story. One fact is for certain, he's not a fictional character from an average story book. This is an authorized biography described through the eyes of the country's most infamous Serial killer. It chronologically outlines a peasant farmer's transformation to paid assassin. The Black Hand steals innocents, by inflicting pure terror, not only on his community, but across the entire U...

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by Myrna K. Burkes (Author)Caradan Elementary First Grade Teacher, Tori Roberts, has had a difficult life. Her abusive childhood led to the development of a personality disorder, but her life begins to change dramatically with the assistance of two men. Compassionate and thoughtful, Neal Watson, the local newspaper editor and her psychologist, Dr. David Schumann, have both helped Tori to realize her own self-worth and everyone agrees she is a special kind of girl. When Tori begins receiving s...

Shadows of Death (True Crime Box Set): From the Crime Files of Notorious USA - Paperback

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by Katherine Ramsland (Author)Welcome to the newest box set (three books rolled in to one set) of the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA. In Shadows of Death, acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestselling author Katherine Ramsland take crime readers on a tour of New Jersey, New York and Delaware. New Jersey Home of the Jersey Devil, New Jersey has its share of other devils, from predatory nurses to thrill killers and sadists. Here you'll find a family that preyed on one of their own...

Charles Ray Hatcher: Revealed - True Stories, Private Details and Secret Investigations of Charlie's Killing Sprees - Paperback

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by Harry Blousy (Author)Amazon #1 Best Seller Special Discount at $2.99, regularly priced at 3.99, With 5 Free Bonus Ebooks Included Would you like to know the most shocking and terrifying acts of horror that Crazy Charlie Inflicted upon his Victims? Serial killers are bred from a place of evil, deceit, and pain. Once they get their first taste of blood, they are always looking for their next hit. Crazy Charlie is one of the most well known serial killers. His crimes range from Grand theft Au...

The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue - Paperback

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by John Glatt (Author)Thirteen siblings were held captive in their own home--and lived to tell their story. On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 on a borrowed cell phone. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her twelve siblings--ranging in age from two to twenty-nine--were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. "I've never been out," s...

The Doctor Broad: A Mafia Love Story - Paperback

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by Barbara H. Roberts (Author)For decades starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seventy-two years old, and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. One night in December of that year his life intersected with that of Dr. Barbara Roberts, a thirty-six-year old single mother of three, who was the first female cardiologist to practice in Rhode Island. Asked by Raymond's family to check on him after he ...

419 Theft: The Con Artistry Machine - Paperback

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by Jules Fonba (Author)419 Theft (The Con Artistry Machine) is the book that comes to expose the recent updates in the West African Connection fraud system. A total reloaded of confidence trick. The whole notion of fraud goes back to the comprehension of what a trick is all about. The ability to claim wisdom over others by taking what rightfully belongs to them with their ignorant cooperation. In short, to defraud someone, be it of any medium, the game plan is, the spirit of confidence trick ...

American Female Serial Killers: The Full Encyclopedia of American Female Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Brian Berry (Author)America has a long and complicated fascination with serial killers. When we think about the most infamous of these killers, we generally think of men like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, or John Wayne Gacy. Those names make headlines while there's the often-repeated myth that suggests there are no female serial killers. After all, most of us couldn't name a woman on the same scale of infamy at BTK or the elusive Zodiac Killer, can we? As it so often is, the truth is far more...

Hard Time: The Life of an Incorrigible on Alcatraz - Paperback

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by Charlie Hopkins (Author), Don DeNevi (As Told to), Daniel a. Edwards (Foreword by)HARD TIME: THE LIFE OF AN INCORRIGIBLE ON ALCATRAZ The true story of Charlie Hopkins #1186 one of the last surviving inmates of Alcatraz Penitentiary. "My friend and fellow alumni Charlie Hopkins and I both graduated from America's Top Crime School- Charlie was a better student than I- He's still free " -James "Whitey" Bulger, #1428 AZ What if one could travel back in time and interview one of the 1500 or ...

Deacon's Crossbow: The True Story of a Crossbow Killing on Interstate 95 - Paperback

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by David G. Brown (Author)Alaska Writers Guild's 2012 Writer's Achievement Award How does a high school valedictorian, former member of the famed 101st Airborne, respected church deacon, husband and father of three end up with a first-degree murder conviction and serving life without parole? Deacon's Crossbow is a bone-chilling and compelling work of true crime - about fate, fear, facts and personality, especially that of convict Donald S. Graham. Donald and his wife were driving home from da...

Killing Time in the Catskills: The twisted tale of the Catskill Ripper Elizabeth Lizzie McNally Halliday - Paperback

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by Kevin Owen (Author)Hot on the heels of the Lizzie Borden case from 1893-1894, newspapers around the world began closely following a new and unusual case in upstate New York. Lizzie Halliday, a seemingly harmless woman, was about to stand trial for a triple homicide in Burlingham, NY. Lizzie Halliday lived in the hamlet of Burlingham and worked as a housekeeper, eventually marrying her employer, Paul Halliday.After Paul went missing, a search of their property revealed the bodies of two uni...

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by Jerry Reedy (Author)This true story will take the reader on a scary ride through the trials and tribulations of a card cheater on the run. Las Vegas is a gambling mecca that lures in tourists from all over the world, each trying to win money at their favorite casino game. The game of Blackjack or "21" is played by more tourists than any other casino game. Jerry Reedy, the author of this true story, was introduced to a group of blackjack players shortly after he got out of college. This gr...

Cease To Exist: The firsthand account of the journey to becoming a killer for Charles Manson - Paperback

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by Chaplin Ray Hoekstra (Editor), Charles "tex" Watson (Author)Just included in the Los Angeles Times' "Making sense of the Manson family murders" reading list An impressionable 22 year old kid from a small town in Texas comes to California like many thousands of others: to seek the freedom, good times, and easy living that the culture of the decade promised. After bumming around for a time, enjoying his new freedom from parents and a heavily Methodist small town, he picks up a hitchhiker on...

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by Anthony M. DeStefano (Author)A Crazed Killer He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard. La Costra Nostra Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous crime family rose to power with their murderous trail of sex, jealousy, greed, and revenge, Carneglia rose with them. Mafia, Madness And Murder This is the horrifying story of a misfit ...

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by John E. Espy (Author)The story concludes in Book Three of the Bar Jonah Trilogy.Considered an expert in the area of psychopathic behavior, Dr. Espy has interviewed more than 30 serial murderers throughout the world including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Eddie Gein. But when he was assigned to be the lead evaluator for Montana State Prison inmate Nathaneal Bar Jonah, an already once convicted serial child molester and attempted murderer in Massachusetts, Espy encountered a parasitic perso...

The Murder of Dr Muldoon: A Suspect Priest, A Widow's Fight for Justice - Paperback

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by Ken Boyle (Author), Tim Desmond (Author)A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the police, charged and sent for trial. A month later, a young doctor is shot dead on the streets of Mohill, Co. Leitrim. The two incidents are connected, but how? In the days following the shooting of D...

TRUE CRIME GERMANY real crime cases from Europe Adrian Langenscheid: 15 shocking short stories from real life - Paperback

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by Adrian Langenscheid (Author)TRUE CRIME GERMANY - TRUE CRIME - REAL CRIME CASESCold blooded murders, a tragic kidnapping and a spectacular robbery - true, real-life German crime cases.True Crime touches us because this name stands for real-life crimes from next door. Maybe even from our own immediate neighbourhood.Not even judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers are left untouched when defendants stand trial for particularly cruel acts and the shocking fates of the victims and their familie...

See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organised Crime - Paperback

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by Tom Behan (Author)A century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian mafia, the criminal organisation known as 'The Camorra' was establishing a deadly grip on Naples and Southern Italy. Its influence today is as strong as ever. This account of the organisation and its shadowy leaders reveals a crime syndicate of extraordinary power and resources: it involves the major political parties, along with the police, judiciary, administrators and leading figures in the business community.A...

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by W. M. Rhodes (Author)Yorkshire is the largest county in the country. Steeped in history this normally peaceful area has occasionally been gripped by some of the most horrifying crimes of the nineteenth century.'Bloody Yorkshire' chronicles thirteen of the vilest murderous acts which frame Yorkshire's sinister past. From the triple murders in Mirfield 1847, the ruthless slaying of innocent children John Gill in Bradford 1889, and Barbara Whitian Waterhouse in Horsforth, Leeds 1891. To the s...

Dyatlov Nine: Death Below Zero - Paperback

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by Catt Dahman (Author)The mysteries surrounding the deaths of nine young, experienced ski hikers in 1959 have never been solved. On a trip through the Ural Mountains, the group of students first were reported missing and then were found deceased, but several were not located until months following the tragedy. Despite exhaustive investigations, there has never been a theory that explains exactly what killed the nine, and because of this, many unusual conjectures have arisen. Strange theories...

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by Mark Johnson (Illustrator), Joe Chatlain (Author)The man in this book "The Illusive Highwayman" is real and the activities, scams and manipulations he worked on people over the years actually occurred. He traveled the highways of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, Canada and the Western United States. Although his individual takes were not large or remarkable, the amount of money, free accommodations and other considerations he received from people reached a considerable amount over th...

Wake Up!: Based on a true story of abuse and betrayal - Paperback

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by Hunter Marshall (Author)Hunter was the kind of person who wore her heart on her sleeve, which could get her into trouble when it came to romance. Having broken up with her fianc , RJ, being dumped by her current boyfriend, and hating being alone she agreed to go on a date with her friend, Grey Andrews. She and Grey had been friends for a couple years and Hunter knew he was infatuated with her, but she was hurt, and bad. She wasn't interested in anything more than easy dating. Boy, was she ...

The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War - Paperback

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by Antonio J. Mendez (Author), Jonna Mendez (Author)From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intellig...

Axe Murderers: 6 Horrific True Crime Stories, 1 Common Tool - Paperback

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by Ryan Becker (Author), True Crime Seven (Author), Kurtis-Giles Veysey (Author)Would you feel safe, knowing your neighbor has a weapon, that is responsible for acts so terrifying, that they still haunt people to this day? Dozens or even hundreds of years later?"It can't be true " Most would say.Like the people whose peaceful lives were cut short - unexpectedly and heartlessly. What was once known as a regular tool, became known as one of the deadliest weapons....From a teenage girl to the my...

Burn Boston Burn: The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country' - Hardcover

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by Wayne M. Miller (Author), Paul a. Christian (Foreword by), Mike Clark (Cover Design by)Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Boston cops and a Boston firefighter, burned Boston and surrounding communities in the early 1980s due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters. Over 2 years, these fire buffs turned arsonists, torched 264 buildings, caus...

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Paperback

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by Douglas Valentine (Author)The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930-1968). Working undercover around the globe, the FBN's charismatic "case-making" agents penetrated the Mafia and its French connection. In the process, however, they uncovered the national security establishment's ties to organized crime. Victims of their freewheeling methods and unparalleled success in hunting down society's predators, the agents were ultimately targete...

Professional criminals of America - Paperback

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by Thomas Byrnes (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 476 Dimensions: 0.96 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: Septe...