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The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World - Paperback

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by Nancy Jo Sales (Author)The Bling Ring by Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales is an in-depth expose of a band of beautiful, privileged teenagers who were caught breaking into celebrity homes and stealing millions of dollars worth of valuables.With a list of victims that reads like a "Who's Who" of young Hollywood, including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton, and Rachel Bilson, The Bling Ring is the stuff of writers' imaginations--with one exception--it's a true story.The media asked:...

Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields - Paperback

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by Kathryn Casey (Author)Featured in the Netflix limited series: Crime Scene, The Texas Killing Fields!Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields--a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women--many teenagers--died mysteriously in the smal...

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer - Paperback

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by Gary L. Stewart (Author), Susan Mustafa (Author)An explosive and historic New York Times bestseller of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America--THE BASIS FOR A 4-PART FX DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES."I promise that you've never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the firs...

American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich From-And Sold Out-The Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports - Paperback

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by Mary Papenfuss (Author), Teri Thompson (Author)The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center--the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world's most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower.He was the middle-class Jewish kid from Queens who rose from local youth soccer leagues to the heights of FIFA, becoming a larger-than-life, j...

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Paperback

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by Michelle McNamara (Author), Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO(R) DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Maureen Corrigan, NPR Paste Seattle Times Entertainment Weekly Esquire Slate Buzzfeed Jezebel Philadelphia Inquirer Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Library Journal Bustle Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction Anthony Award Winner SCIBA Book Award Winner Fin...

Scarface and the Untouchable - Paperback

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by Max Allan Collins (Author)The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." --Chicago "Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." --Matthew PearlIn 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public...

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by Henri Charriere (Author)"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New YorkerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEKHenri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he...

Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord - Paperback

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by Andrew Hogan (Author), Douglas Century (Author)Every generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone, John Gotti, Pablo Escobar. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, Eliot Ness, Steve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera--El Chapo--that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan. In 2006, fresh out of the D.E.A. Academy, Hog...

Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth - Paperback

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by Lawrence O'Donnell (Author)Featuring a new preface and afterword by the authorFrom the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston--one of the first to draw national headlines--and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.On a rainy winter night, James Bowden, Jr. left his mother's house in Roxbury after a visit. As he guided his Buick out of his parking spot, an unmarked police car sud...

The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization - Paperback

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by James Bamford (Author)In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law. With detailed information on the NSA's secret role in the Korean Airlines disaster, Iran-Contra, the ...

The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago - Paperback

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by Douglas Perry (Author)With a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Maurine Watkins turned the beautiful, media-savvy suspects-"Stylish Belva" and "Beautiful Beulah"-into the talk of the town. ...

Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply - Paperback

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by Katherine Eban (Author)In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system--where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness. Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators ...

A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior - Paperback

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by Charles Bowden (Author)Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive as when he's doing a deal. So this time he sets out to test himself against the elite of the drug business, the Colombians and their fine, pure heroin. Maybe he'll finally meet his match. Charles Bowden, author of the critically acclaimed Down by the Riv...

The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London - Paperback

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by Kate Summerscale (Author)Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left...

Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community - Paperback

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by G. David Curry (Author), Scott H. Decker (Author), David C. Pyrooz (Author)The most comprehensive and current textbook on gang research, gang policy, and gang responses, Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community, Third Edition, offers a full and unbiased assessment of the characteristics of gang members and gang behavior. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES Strong focus on the community contexts that contribute to gang activity Quotes from real-life gang members provide students with a realistic portrait o...

Liberalized Lynching: Building a New Racialized State - Hardcover

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by Daniel Kato (Author)In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the question of how such a brazen disregard for the law could have occurred so freely and openly. Liberalizing Lynching: Building a New Racialized State seeks to explain the seemingly paradoxical relationship bet...

Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico - Paperback

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by Angelica Duran-Martinez (Author)Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the result of brutality. Rather, they stem from structural condit...

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America - Paperback

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by Kali Nicole Gross (Author)Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial--which spanned several months--were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as il...

America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society - Paperback

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by Loch K. Johnson (Author)Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties. Loch Johnson, who has studied the workings of the CIA at first hand as a legislative overseer, presents a comprehens...

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by Helen Benedict (Author)In the last few years, the national press has lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or virginal woman against an unwilling or monstrous man. Such extreme coverage, argues Helen Benedict, perpetuates myths that are harmful to victims of these crimes (and sometimes to the accused). In Virgin...

Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency - Hardcover

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by Stephen F. Knott (Author)Today when we think of covert operations, we think of American-backed mercenaries circulating through jungle camps of Contra guerrillas, CIA agents plotting coups against governments in Chile and Libya, or the lethal cigars used in an attempt to assassinate Castro. In the public imagination, these kinds of operations--often seeming to go over the line, and always hidden from Congress and the American people--are a recent innovation, a rogue offspring of the Cold Wa...

Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South - Paperback

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by Michael Wayne (Author)In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter.Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reop...

Decision Advantage: Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar - Hardcover

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by Jennifer E. Sims (Author)A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable and ultimately irrelevant because, at least in international politics and war, military muscle matters more than brains. In Decision Advantage, Jennifer E. Sims counters this argument by investigating the history of inte...

In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence - Paperback

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by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (Author)In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were...

Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers - Paperback

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by Neil Websdale (Author)Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children. Paul, a respected investment banker, donned a Halloween mask and shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. What drives individuals as different as Oscar and Paul to kill their families? Why does familicide appear to be on the rise? In Familicidal Hearts, award-winning author and sociolo...

The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England - Paperback

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by Alec Ryrie (Author)An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man in sixteenth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown documents to reconstruct this extraordinary man's career, Alec Ryrie takes us thr...

In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence - Hardcover

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Give Life a Chance: Restorative Justice - Paperback

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by Robert B. Stanley (Author)The book is in memory of our father, Robert Arthur Stanley, who was murdered June 1, 2001.The story covers the case from the beginning of his murder to the end, at the sentencing of the persons involved. The story also takes in the process involved with the case, and the family's agony during the years it took to resolve the murder.There is a meeting of the person involved in the murder through a circle meeting of both the murderer's family and the Stanley family....

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring - Paperback

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by Terry Williams (Author)Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages of this book.Author BiographySociologist Terry Williams, Ph.D., coauth...

A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream - Paperback

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by Angus McLaren (Author)From 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. A Prescription for Murder begins with Angus McLaren's vividly detailed story of the killings. Using press reports and police dossiers, McLaren investigates the links between crime and respectability to reveal a remarkable range of Victorian sexual tensions and fears. McLaren explores how the roles of murderer and victim were crea...

Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law - Paperback

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by Leo Katz (Author)In Ill-Gotten Gains, Leo Katz describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, anecdotes with analysis, Katz uncovers what is really at stake in crimes such as insider trading, blackmail, and plagiarism. With its startling conclusions and myriad twists, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by the perplexing relationship between morality and law. "An ambitious and well-written book of legal and moral...

Off Limits: A Girl By Birth, A Boy By Choice, A Spirit By Design - Paperback

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by Andy McDonald (Author)Every girl's time of first blood is usually the onset of menses. But what happens if a girl's first bloodletting experience takes place before she reaches the milestone of puberty when she encounters those with insatiable lust for children. Meet a girl who is repeatedly molested to the point that she rejects her breasts and womb, switches gender lanes, and begins a passionate, cut and dried, yet murky hunt for a man who opportunistically hurts women and children and d...