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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Hardcover

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by Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - From the author of Empire of Pain--a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book--as finely paced as a novel--Keefe uses McCo...

Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church

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Report copyright infringementby Gareth Gore (Author)A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei--a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect--pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world's largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of the most profitable banks in the world--until one day, in 2017, when the Spanish bank suddenly collapsed overnight. When investigative journalist Gareth ...

Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Tapper (Author)"Not only riveting to read but also shines an essential light on the quest for justice in the modern age of terrorism." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon In this thrilling true story, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jake Tapper uncovers an investigation--unlike any other in American history--to lock up a dangerous terrorist before he's set free. June 2011: The case has been cold for nearly...

The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Corbett (Author)Criminal profiling--the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us--holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society's m...

Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses

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Report copyright infringementby Moises Naim (Author), Quico Toro (Author)From snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the "fascinating" (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans--and why we fall for them For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlatanry is more lucrative and global than ever. Using the power of digital technology, our age's charlatans have spun a worldwide web of exploitation on an unprecedented scale. In Charlatans, global affairs experts Moisés Naím...

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

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Report copyright infringementby Seth Harp (Author)"The Fort Bragg Cartel opens like a nonfiction thriller and never lets up. A page-turning investigation into the dark side of our forever wars."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America's premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers in today's military In December...

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

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Report copyright infringementby Shaun Walker (Author)The definitive history of Russia's most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad as deep-cover spies, training them to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants, and students. Over time, this grew into the most am...

Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the Cia, and the Tragedy of Mkultra

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Report copyright infringementby John Lisle (Author)The inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous--even deadly--experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of anim...

How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist's Fatal Quest for Answers

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Report copyright infringementby Dom Phillips (Author)"A book both brilliant and broken, [and] one that is ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself."--The Guardian Journalist Dom Phillips traveled deep into the Amazon rainforest searching for solutions to the problem of deforestation, a threat to the local ecosystem, native tribes, and the global climate. When he was murdered in the Javari Valley by a group of environmental criminals, a cohort of journalists and activists t...

Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Tinline (Author), Kai Bird (Foreword by)A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump. Delve into the labyrinth of America's conspiracy culture with thi...

Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Gavin Frank (Author)An exquisite, lyrical foray into the world of deep-sea divers, the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us, and the story of submarine inventor Peter Madsen's murder of journalist Kim Wall--a captivating blend of literary prose, science writing, and true crime "[A] thrilling study of an obsession--to sink below the surface, to depths both metaphoric and in fact. Full of wild characters and strange histories, by the end we are...

Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic - Paperback

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by Joe McGinniss (Author)The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children--murders he vehemently denies committing.... "Chilling. . . . A haunting resurrection of Crime and Punishment."--TimeBestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald-...

V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Harkup (Author)Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated victims. And what better way to add intrigue to a story than poison? The surreptitious ways they can be administered and the characteristic symptoms they produce make these killer chemicals the ideal method of murder in a 'whodunit'. Christie p...

Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida

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Report copyright infringementby Gilbert King (Author)From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America's most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man's life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice. "Captivating, enraging, and all too true." --Bob Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road "Bone Valley is a work of rare moral c...

Something Big: The True Story of the Brown's Chicken Massacre, a Decade-Long Manhunt, and the Trials That Followed

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Wohl (Author)Something Big tells the story of the infamous Brown's Chicken massacre, a brutal case that captivated Chicagoland after remaining unsolved for nearly a decade. Customers know Brown's Chicken for its crispy buttermilk fried chicken and flaky biscuits. The Illinois-based franchise has a reputation for delicious but simple comfort food. But through no fault of its own, the words "Brown's Chicken" are also synonymous with one fateful night in J...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lyons (Author) Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2025

The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate's Quest to Die with Dignity

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Report copyright infringementby Gianna Toboni (Author)A riveting account of one death row inmate's quest to die--and a fearless look at how America's system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada's death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn't cry foul or embark upon a protracted innocence campaign. He sought instead to expedite his execution--to hasten his inevitable death. He decided he would rather face his end swi...

Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman James Sackett - Paperback

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by William Swanson (Author)On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a sniper's bullet fired from a high-powered rifle.The white officer's assassination was the most shocking event in an era of shocking, racially charged events, punctuated by bombings at Dayton's Department Store and elsewhere, police harassment and shootings of young black men, an alleged hijacking plot, and random acts of urban violence. a ...

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by Adam Selzer (Author)The most sensational and intriguing murders from across the United States are reexamined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Uncovering homicides from a seminal period of American criminal history, this compendium covers from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of WWII, the era that saw the first murderer convicted using fingerprints and the birth of the FBI laboratory.Every murder case is accompanied b...

Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun and Profit! - Paperback

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by Frank W. Abagnale (Author), Stan Redding (Author)The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's u...

Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon - Paperback

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by Peter Boag (Author)On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited.In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide ...

Brain Games - Murder Mystery Puzzles - Spiral

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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Brain Games (Author)Solve more than 130 puzzles about murder and crime! Solve a variety of word puzzles, logic puzzles, memory puzzles, visual puzzles, and more! Search crime scenes for small details, put together timelines of the day of a crime, decode hidden messages left by the murder victim, and unscramble cryptograms about true crime. Puzzles include anagrams, cryptograms, logic puzzles, visual puzzles, word searches, mind stretchers, crossw...

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by Ann Rule (Author)The terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers to play in the NFL, and chosen by Playgirl as a centerfold candidate. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had his pick of willing sexual prospects. But Randall Woodfield wanted more than just sex. An appe...

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by Douglas Preston (Author), Mario Spezi (Author)In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Scott Crabtree (Author)At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a massive explosion rocked downtown Oklahoma City, shearing off the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and killing 168 people, including 19 children in the building's daycare center. The blast sent shockwaves across the country, both literally and figuratively. In the chaos that followed, investigators sifting through the rubble found a twisted fragment of a Ryder rental truck. Using it as th...

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream - Paperback

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by Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people. "Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true." --Time Keefe revea...

Mule: My Dangerous Life As A Drug Smuggler Turned Dea Informant

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Report copyright infringementby C. A. Heifner (Author), Adam Rocke (Author)An inside look at the gritty, brutal world of Mexican drug trafficking.Back JacketMeet Chris Heifner, overachieving drug runner for a Mexican marijuana cartel. But he wasn't always. This one-time econ student from Texas--broke, deep in debt, and facing eviction with a growing family to support--yielded to the temptation that he had resisted countless times before and went to work for his best friend from college, Jake ...

The Big Policeman: The Rise and Fall of America's First, Most Ruthless, and Greatest Detective

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Report copyright infringementby J. North Conway (Author)A story bursting with murder, mayhem, and intrigue--the astonishing career of Thomas Byrnes, the 19th Century New York City detective who closed the city's most notorious murders and robberies and became one of the most celebrated detectives in American history. The second in the New York City Gilded Age Crime Trilogy by J. North Conway.Back JacketA fascinating, fast-moving account of one of the most polarizing and influential figures of...

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Report copyright infringementby John Treherne (Author)Here is the true story of Bonnie Parker (1910-1934) and Clyde Barrow (1909-1934), a young sociopathic Southern couple gunned down by authorities after a two-year crime spree that left twelve people dead. This history cuts through hype and mythology and examines the outlaws' liberal and dysfunctional sex life, their astonishing ability to elude a 1000-man posse, the contradictory accounts of the mythic ambush that resulted in their deaths a...

The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes - Paperback

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by Sarah Burns (Author)A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. - A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The stag...

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

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Report copyright infringementby Orlando Whitfield (Author)A dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer A BEST BOOK: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Town & Country - In development as a series for HBO "Exhilarating. . . . Compulsively readable."--The Guardian - "Reads like a Liar's Poker for the art world."--The Eco...

El Invencible Verano de Liliana / Liliana's Invincible Summer (Premio Pulitzer) - Paperback

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by Cristina Rivera Garza (Author)Ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2024 de Memoria o Autobiografía PRESELECCIONADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS EN LA CATEGORIA DE NO FICCIÓN Incluido en los libros de ficción notables del New York Times de 2023 Este libro es para celebrar el paso de Liliana Rivera Garza por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar. «El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue víctima de un feminicidio. Era una mu...