True Crime

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever...

The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA In the late 1970s, the...

The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old...

Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.--New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career--in this compulsive...

"Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers."--New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career--in this compulsive...

Author: Howard BlumPublisher: Harper PaperbacksPublished: 06/06/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9780063054226

The shocking true story of international intrigue --"a highly detailed, engrossing work" (Kirkus Reviews)--involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. "In a post-truth era, we need a lot...

Jim Nicholson earned the nickname "Batman" early in his spy career with the CIA. A talented case officer with a Rolex watch and hand-tailored suits, Jim's elan and fierce patriotic streak shot him to stardom. He played cat-and-mouse with the KGB during Cold War...

A gritty and compelling account of an elite police group, the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS). Middle Eastern organised crime in Australia is a dark, dirty and dangerous world of drug empires, murders and turf wars. Crime families dominate the suburbs and the...

One of the Largest Tragedies in Iowa History. On January 7, 1950, a fire erupted at St. Elizabeth's Mental Health Facility for women. The disaster garnered state-wide and national attention as the second largest loss of life in the history of the state and...

The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in countless histories, biographies, movies, and television specials....

A Case of Bad Timing and Poor JudgmentThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in...

Gary L. Joralemon has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from California PolytechnicState University, San Luis Obispo, and a master's degree in leadership from St.Mary's College of California. After thirty-three years in law enforcement, he retired from theSan Luis Obispo County Probation Department, having...

On December 9, 2001, the bloody body of Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in the North Carolina home she shared with her husband and novelist Michael Peterson.My wife had an accident," Peterson says on the 911 call. "She's...

The story that could not be written till now I have been collecting this informatin for more than twenty years. I was personally acquainted with many of the outlaws who nested in the dives along the Tennessee-Mississippi border, and I crossed paths with them...

A remarkably successful book on a fascinating subject, well organized and well written. --Time's Literary Supplement From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal were the ordinary stuff...

A non-fiction, true crime story about a serial killing called the Stocking Strangler murders in Columbus, Georgia in the late 70's.Author: Renate SolomonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/11/2018Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781720784012About the AuthorThis story is about the...

The abduction and apparent murder of Colonel Albert J. and Henry Fountain on February 1, 1896, shocked and outraged the citizens of New Mexico.It was not the killing of Colonel Fountain, a Union Civil War veteran and a prominent New Mexico attorney, which roused...

The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the canon of American magazine writing.While each has her own style, the women in these pages share the attributes of all good writers: meticulous research and reporting, attention...

In "The Story Behin 'In Broad Daylight'" Author Harry MacLean reveals the details of how he uncovered what actually happened in the vigilante killing of Ken Rex McElroy in Skidmore, Missouri, in 1981, as told in "In Broad Daylight."Standing a few feet from where...