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Biker 101: The Life of Don: The Trilogy: II of III - Paperback

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by Donny Petersen (Author)I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity... but they've always worked for me. Living on the Edge. The thrill of speed overcomes fear of death, Leaning hard into aggressive -wind, Screaming engine pulsates; throbbing below. Brothers in front and to the back of me; one, tight beside me. Straight ahead, squinting eyes, tearing, salt burning the skin, We dare not look; we feel, we hear, we sense where each of us be. Constantly, adjusting tight distances i...

Biker 101: The Life of Don: The Trilogy: II of III - Hardcover

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The Mafia Commission: A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa Nostra - Paperback

$21.60

by Andy Petepiece (Author)A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa NostraAndy Petepiece The Mafia Commission is a well researched book on the nearly 100 year history of the Mafia's Board of Directors. It begins with the era before the formation of the Commission in 1931 and continues to the famous 1986 trial that brought the Commission to its knees.The reason for the Mafia's adoption of this method of governing is explained as well as its rules and regulations. Many examples are used to...

Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture - Paperback

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by David Schmid (Author)Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific individuals so fascinating? What compels us to look more closely at these figures when we really want to look away? Natural Born Celebrities considers how serial killers have become lionized in American culture and explo...

Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice - Paperback

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by Fred Burton (Author), John Bruning (Author)On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot--he was a high-ranking military official with intelligence ties. The assassin w...

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by Salvatore Lupo (Author), Antony Shugaar (Translator)When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with the unification of Italy and the influx o...

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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution - Paperback

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by James Liebman (Author), Shawn Crowley (Author), Andrew Markquart (Author)In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or...

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization - Paperback

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by Willem Van Schendel (Editor), Itty Abraham (Editor)Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the thousands of illicit acts that take place across national borders every day. They distinguish between the illegal (prohibited by law) and the illicit (socially perceived as unacceptable), wh...

Murder Made in Italy: Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture - Paperback

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by Ellen Nerenberg (Author)Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population....

General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950-February 1953 - Paperback

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by Ludwell L. Montague (Author)This book continues the official history of the CIA begun in Arthur Darling's The Central Intelligence Agency.Ludwell Lee Montague's book is one of the first documents, along with Darling's history, to be declassified and made available under the CIA's Historical Review Program, launched in 1985. Montague was a leading government official who participated in the interdepartmental debate over the postwar organization of U.S. intelligence that occurred in 1945. He...

Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns - Paperback

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by Henry W. Shoemaker (Author)Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns, published in 1915, stands alongside a number of Shoemaker's volumes, such as Wolf Days in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Lion or Panther, dedicated to telling the tales of vanishing or extinct Pennsylvania wildlife. Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns places these tales within the greater context of the Pennsylvania sportsmen's and hunting culture. While lamenting the extinction of the old-stock Pennsylvania deer species, Shoemaker...

Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes - Paperback

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by Elizabeth A. Gurian (Author)This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders. Author BiographyElizabeth A. Gurian is an associate professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Norwich University. She is also the associate director of the School of Criminology and Criminal...

Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured - Hardcover

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by Jordan S. Rubin (Author)Inside a drug war so screwy that people don't know what's illegal--until it's too late. Bizarro is a page-turning tale of the unprecedented prosecution of Burton Ritchie and Ben Galecki, the Florida-based founders of a sprawling "spice" (synthetic cannabinoid) operation. With this book, journalist and former New York City narcotics prosecutor Jordan S. Rubin exposes a Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act, which targets dealers selling drugs that are "substantially...

Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies - Paperback

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by Jennifer M. Ortiz (Editor)This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconceptions, and presents the complex subcultural or countercultural realities of gang members and their associates. Special attention is given to the importance of structural violence experienced by gang members and their commun...

A Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916 - Paperback

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by Gary B. Borders (Author)On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for the murder of a white family-all in the course of three hours. Two white men played pivotal roles in these events: Bill Haltom, a leading local Democrat and the editor of the Nacogdoches Sentinel, who condemned lynching but defended lynch mobs, and A. J. Spradley, a Populist sheriff who, with the aid of hundreds of state militiam...

Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas - Paperback

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by Ricardo C. Ainslie (Author)On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened times. Many eventually found an answer in the fact that two of the three men convicted of the murder had ties to the white supremacist Confederate Knights of A...

Conspiracy Theory in America - Paperback

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by Lance Dehaven-Smith (Author)Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service-and possibly even senior government officials-were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking akin ...

Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland - Paperback

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by Robert C. Donnelly (Author), Carl Abbott (Foreword by)In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland's law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city's lucrative prostitution, gambling, and bootlegging operations. Turner and Lambert blew the cover on the Teamsters' scheme to take over alcohol sales and distribution and profit from...

Poor Pearl, Poor Girl!: The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper - Paperback

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by Anne B. Cohen (Author)The year was 1896, and nineteenth-century journalists called the murder of Pearl Bryan the "Crime of the Century." From the day Pearl's headless body was found to the execution of her murderers on the gallows, the details of the murder fascinated newspaper reporters and ballad composers alike. Often glossing over the facts of the case, newspaper accounts presented the events according to stereotypes that were remarkably similar to those found in well-known murdered-gi...

The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr. - Paperback

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by Nancy Bartley (Author)In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention, only to be buried later in local archives.Journalist Nancy Bartley has conducted extensive research to construct a compelling narrative of the events and characters that ...

Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery - Paperback

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by Charles Higham (Author)For more than eighty years, the famous unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor, the legendary bisexual film director, has generated debate and controversy. Now, best-selling author Charles Higham has solved the crime. Higham uncovers the corruption and intrigue of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties-and the film industry moguls' complete domination of the city's authorities. When it was discovered that a famous star of the day had probably killed Taylor, a massive ...

Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice - Paperback

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by Bill Lueders (Author)Cry Rape dramatically exposes the criminal justice system’s capacity for error as it recounts one woman’s courageous battle in the face of adversity. In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty’s account and focused the investigation on her. Under pressure, he got her to recant, then had her charged with falsely reporting a crime. The c...

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders - Paperback

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by William R. Drennan (Author)The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright's legion of biographers-a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan's exhaustive...

Handbook of Warning Intelligence - Paperback

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by Cynthia Grabo (Author), Jan Goldman (With)This new and final edition is a follow-up to the author's first book, Anticipating Surprise (University Press of America, 2002) and the Handbook of Warning Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2010). The first book was an abridged version of Grabo's 1972 manuscript, of which only 200 pages were allowed to be published by the government. The second book was published after it was agreed that the last 10 chapters would remain classified. These final 10 cha...

Solving For X: Tracking the DC Serial Arsonist - Paperback

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by Robert M. Luckett (Author)Solving For X is the remarkable story of the investigation and manhunt for one of the most prolific serial arsonists in United States history. The reign of terror started in June 2003, killing four innocent people and burning through Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and ended when the DC Arson Task Force arrested Thomas Anthony Sweatt. As told by Robert M. Luckett, one of the chief investigators, Solving For X offers a unique, insider's perspectiv...

No One Has To Die: Inside The Longest Armed Standoff in the History of the U.S. Marshals - Paperback

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by Steve Monier (Author), Gary DiMartino (Contribution by), David Dimmitt (Contribution by)On January 12, 2007, what began as a felony tax trial for Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, New Hampshire, spiraled into the longest armed standoff in U.S. Marshals history. Refusing to appear in court and surrender to federal authorities, the Browns transformed their home into a fortress, drawing support from militia groups and anti-government activists nationwide. No One Has To Die offers an in-depth...

The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence - Paperback

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by Charles E. Lathrop (Editor)The Literary Spy provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annotated more than 3,000 quotations from such disparate sources as the Bible, spy novels and movies, Shakespeare's plays, declassified CIA documents, memoirs, TV talk shows, and speeches from U.S. and foreign leaders and off...

Comrade Criminal: Russia`s New Mafiya - Paperback

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by Stephen Handelman (Author)This riveting book is the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. Describing a society under the sway of gangster bosses, corrupt army generals, bank swindlers, drug dealers, and uranium thieves, the book shows how "mafiya" crime lords and still-powerful former Soviet bureaucrats--so-called "comrade criminals"--have sabotaged their country's attempt at revolution and reform. Stephen Handelman, Moscow bure...

Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs - Hardcover

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by Richard M. Bissell (Author), Frances T. Pudlo (With), Jonathan E. Lewis (With)In this revealing memoir, the CIA's most important spymaster provides an insider's view of American intelligence activities during a pivotal period in history. The author tells of the personalities, policies, and historical forces that influenced events while he was in charge of the development of the U-2 spy-plane, the Corona spy satellite, the infamous Bay of Pigs operation, and other covert CIA operations and ...

Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Robin W. Winks (Author), Winks (Author)The CIA and its World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), were for many years largely populated by members of Ivy League colleges, particularly Yale. In this highly acclaimed book, Robin Winks explores the underlying bonds between the university and the intelligence communities, introducing a fascinating cast of characters that include safe-crackers and experts in Azerbaijani as well as such social luminaries as Paul Mellon, Da...

Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen and Outlaws - Paperback

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by Jay Robert Nash (Author)The most extensive listing of outlaws and lawmen of the Wild West ever compiled. The narrative is well done, often with bits of dialogue take from contemporary sources.--Booklist With over 1000 entries and 400 illustrations, this volume is the most fact-packed history of the West ever assembled. Crime historian extraordinaire Jay Robert Nash has left no stone unturned in his search for the gunmen, train robbers, gangs, desperadoes, range warriors, gamblers, and lawm...