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Memoirs Of A Gym Rat: One man's 20-year journey through the bowels of the health club industry. - Paperback

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by Max Hawthorne (Author)There are the sadistic personal trainers, who seem to enjoy your physical pain a bit too much. There are the slimy sales reps, who forever dream up new ways to strong-arm your paycheck from you. And there are the locker room Lotharios, who bed as many women as they can do pushups. A body with abs of steel is just one of the things you can get at a health club; some of the other things may not be as desirable. Ask Max Hawthorne, an industry veteran of more than twenty ...

FBI Special Agents Are Real People: True Stories From Everyday Life Of FBI Special Agents - Paperback

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by Al Zupan (Author)True stories, told and written by the current and retired former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This book is dedicated to the three FBI Special Agents that were killed on August 9, 1979, and their families, as well as 33 other FBI Special Agents who died as a direct result of an adversarial action throughout the FBI's history to date. It is also dedicated to the countless families of both active and retired Agents, who exemplified the Fidelity...

The Fighting Parson: The Life of Reverend Leslie Spracklin (Canada's Eliot Ness) - Paperback

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by Rose Keefe (Author)★★★ Some ministers preach...some get locked and loaded ★★★Reverend Spracklin was a gangster's worst nightmare. Known to the press and public as the 'Fighting Parson', he and his handpicked squad of dry agents burst into the roadhouses of Essex County with pistols drawn and fists clenched.They chased liquor-laden vehicles through dark city streets and along rough country roads, and intercepted rumrunners on the Detroit River in their high-powered speedboat, the Panther II...

The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders - Paperback

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by Tom Wescott (Author)***WINNER*** Indie Reader Award for Best True Crime Book******WINNER***Independent Publisher (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award for Best History Book 2014******FINALIST*** Indie Excellence Award for Best True Crime Book (second place)***Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London's East End from August through November of 1888 in what is dubbed the 'Autumn of Terror'. However, the grisly ripping of Polly Nichols on August 31st was not the first unsolved murder of the year. The...

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain - Paperback

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by Peter Grose (Author)Fascinating . . . well-documented . . . thought-provoking and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly), Operation Rollback is a tale of intrigue and espionage that reveals how and why suspicions on both sides drove the world into the Cold War. In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate intelligence networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America's secret action plan, known as Rollback, ...

Jack the Ripper: His Australian Murders - Paperback

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by Neil Raymond Bradford (Author)Jack the Ripper, a seaman on a cattle boat transporting live cargo into London, murdered possibly nine females, if not more, during 1888 and 1889 in the Whitechapel district of London, England. An illegitimate child, his mother an Australian by birth, Jack resided in a boarding house at Aldgate where he received 1 a week from his father, a Chief Justice of England and Wales, later Privy Councillor to Queen Victoria, and an allowance from his half-brother, who...

Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill - Paperback

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by Emily Webb (Author)Serial killers in the caring professions.Doctors, nurses and health workers have a duty of care to their patients to ensure they act in the best interests of an individual; and not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm.But those featured within these pages are serial killers who roamed their places of work, preying on people at their most vulnerable.Angels of Death is an updated collection of real life crimes exploring murders committed in hospitals and doctor...

Once a Copper: The life and times of Brian `The Skull` Murphy - Paperback

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by Vikki Petraitis (Author)Once a copper, always a copper. At least that's how it seems for Brian 'The Skull' Murphy, long-retired but sought out by a trail of journalists and cops who regularly beat a path to his door. Once known as Australia's toughest cop, The Skull was both charged with manslaughter (and acquitted), then awarded a Valour Award for bravery in the line of duty. It is these two sides to the complex man that intrigue audiences to this day. Much has been written about The Skul...

The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner - Paperback

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by Samantha Battams (Author)How did a serial killer from the 19th century almost get away with murder? At the end of the 19th century, Martha Needle became known as 'The Black Widow' of the Richmond poisoning case after secretly poisoning her husband and children. The Black Widow was a media sensation in her day, as infamous as Ned Kelly (even sharing the same lawyer). After poisoning her husband and two of her children, Needle became obsessed with the kind-hearted son of a Danish immigrant...

In A Summer Swelter: The Charles Manson Murders - Paperback

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by Simon Davis (Author)Simon Davis is the first truly independent trial lawyer to write about the notorious Manson Family murder spree of 1969. The murders were some of the wildest and most vicious in the annals of crime set against the backdrop of a hazy hippie summer in which flowers and music would fill the air at Woodstock just days after the Tate/LaBianca murders.By analysing the trials, Davis ties up the loose ends of the story, debunks the myths and also reveals the shocking conspiracy...

History of Australian Bushrangers: & the Jerilderie Letter - Paperback

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by George E. Boxall (Author), Ned Kelly (Author)The history of Australian and New Zealand Bushrangers from first settlement of Australia to the death of Ned Kelly in 1880. Includes an extensive index of place and person names and the full transcript of Ned Kelly's famous Jerilderie Letter. Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: 0.95 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2017

The Frankston Murders: 25 Years On - Paperback

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by Vikki Petraitis (Author)Twenty-five years ago, serial killer Paul Denyer terrorised the bayside suburb of Frankston.It began on 11 June when Elizabeth Stevens was murdered on her way home from the library. Then, on 8 July, Debbie Fream left her new baby boy with a friend while she dashed out for milk. She was abducted and killed. Three weeks later, Year 12 student, Natalie Russell, was brutally murdered on her way home from school.Melbourne residents lived in fear, as the Frankston area wa...

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by Mark Arax (Author)From Simon & Schuster comes an unforgettable autobiography from Mark Arax: In My Father's Name. Mark Arax recounts the incredible events that transpired twenty years after his father's unsolved murder, during which he returned to Fresno under an assumed name and uncovered the startling disclosure that preceded his father's tragic death.Author BiographyMark Arax is the author of In My Father's Name, a Simon & Schuster book. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.97 x 9...

Fiend: The Shocking True Story of Americas Youngest Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Harold Schechter (Author)A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Ag...

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by Harold Schechter (Author)From Simon & Schuster and Harold Schechter comes Deranged, the shocking true story of America's most fiendish killer. Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking true story of a murderer in the early 20th century. Deranged reveals the true story behind the life and crimes of Albert Fish, a grandfatherly type who, in the 1930s, kidnapped and murdered countless children.Back JacketIn May, 1928, a kindly old man came to the door of the Budd family home in New Y...

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by Stephen Coonts (Author)Stephen Coonts has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about flying. In The Cannibal Queen, he turns his storytelling genius to nonfiction with an exultant account of three glorious months in the summer of '91 spent in the cockpit of a 1942 Stearman vintage biplane. Joining the ranks of John Steinbeck and Charles Kuralt, Coonts takes us on an extraordinary adventure, touching down in all forty-eight of the continental United States. On a clear, sunny...

Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun - Paperback

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by Frank Viviano (Author)Against the sweeping backdrop of western Sicily, in a riveting seven-year quest, Frank Viviano pieces together his own harrowing ancestral history of betrayal and redemption. His take is haunted, from its violent opening to its stunning climax, by an ancient Sicilian proverb, Lu sangu lava lu sangu, "Blood washes blood" the torrent of unforgiving vengeance that flows from an unforgivable offense. Viviano's great-great grandfather was a legendary bandit who traveled th...

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster - Paperback

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by Harold Schechter (Author)FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen. As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with t...

Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification - Paperback

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by Simon a. Cole (Author)"No two fingerprints are alike," or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. But in Suspect Identities, Simon Cole reveals that the history of criminal identification is far murkier than we have been led to believe. Cole traces the modern system of finger...

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by James B. Stewart (Author)A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize-winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties' biggest names on Wall Street--Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine--created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and a...

Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order - Paperback

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by Robert Jackall (Author)Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild shootout on the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York City's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern seaboard's drug trade. All seemingly separate acts of violence. But investigators discover a pattern to the mayhem, with links to scores of assaults and murders throughout the city.In this bloody urban saga, Robert Jackall ...

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by Susan R. Estrich (Author)Many men believe that they can force women to have sex against their will and that it isn't rape--at least, not if the man knows the women and doesn't beat her up or wield a weapon. The law's casual treatment of such rape cases is the subject of this pioneering book, which is both a powerful expos of the often shocking facts and a trenchantly written call for reform. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.96 x 6.01 IN Publication Date: October 15, 1988

Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate - Paperback

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by Helen Prejean (Author), Desmond Tutu (Preface by), Susan Sarandon (Afterword by)In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story - Paperback

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by John Berendt (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." --The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung...

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by Robert Perske (Author)Beginning with the story of Joe Arridy, certified as a "feeble-minded imbecile" who was executed in Colorado in 1939, Deadly Innocence? traces political and judicial handling of incidents involving persons with retardation; describes similar current cases; and offers suggestions for action on the part of the police, the courts, professionals who work in the field of developmental disabilities, and concerned citizens. Number of Pages: 143 Dimensions: 0.45 x 10.98 x 8.5...

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised - Paperback

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by Katie Hafner (Author), John Markoff (Author)Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the authors show what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, a...

Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers - Paperback

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by Michael Baden (Author), Marion Roach (Joint Author)For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand ...

Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York - Paperback

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by Eric C. Schneider (Author)They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colorful and controversial part of the urban landscape, made famous by West Side Story and infamous by the media. This is the first historical study to explore f...

Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw New Mexico - Paperback

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by Ron Franscell (Author)OUTLAW NEW MEXICO continues the popular series that critics, true-crime fans, historians and travelers have hailed as "the ultimate guilty pleasure," "thorough and unflinching," and "the best damn crime travel series ever published " This rollicking romp across the historic New Mexico crimescape promises all the can't-look-away allure of its predecessors ... and a few surprises This is a trip to the Land of Enchantment's darker side, where seemingly idyllic places re...

The Part About the Serpent: A Testimony - Paperback

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by Joseph John Kacin III (Author)A disturbing expos of child abuse, drug addiction, demonic oppression, suicide, psych wards, false diagnosis, corruption, and deceptions in the church in a bomb-dropping testimony. Destroyed twice, once deliberately by the author, this book took 15 years to bear the light.Author BiographySeveral days ago, I was led" to search for the Kacins...Although not completely sure that it was you, I ordered your book...Once beginning to read, I realized that it was......

The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity - Paperback

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by Dan E. Moldea (Author)THE UPDATED 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONOn June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a former U.S. Attorney General, was shot in a kitchen pantry at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles during an election night victory party. His death the following day stunned a nation still recovering from the murder of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, five years earlier in Dallas, which many believed was still an unsolved case.However, law-enforcement officials insisted that the m...

The Unexpected Gambler: A History of Casinos Cheating the Public and One Gambler's Revenge - Paperback

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by Robert Asiel (Author)An unknown chapter of gambling history that begins in "The Golden Age of Las Vegas." The author details how crooked casinos cheat, and describes the people who retaliate against them called crossroaders. He reveals the methods both sides use that he learned from veteran crossroaders who taught him how to beat casinos. It led to adventures throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Caribbean, where there's intrigue, danger, and celebrity. Robert explains how he and his hand-p...