True Crime

"Bellamy writes with razor-edged wit and his own particular brand of charm." -- Medina County GazetteThe third book in this popular series delivers 25 more incredible but true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including: Crotchety old vigilante Jarvis Meach, who shot down robbers...

For some states in Latin America, corruption is not simply an industry, but rather it is part of the political system. This collection studies the nature of corruption and its recent trends through expert contributions from scholars from the region who have diverse scholarly...

In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infamous Rikers Island jails. Gary Heyward's life changed forever when he received a letter from the...

Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary...

Life (and death) inside the Mafia... Dominick Cicale was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. From a young age he was closely associated with the Genovese crime family, considered the most powerful Mafia group in America. Fate intervened. In 1999 Cicale forged...

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have...

After the collapse of the extradition treaty with the UK in the late 1970s, Spain's southern coastal strip, the Costa del Sol, became a safe haven for criminals. The law was tightened in 1987 but not retrospectively and many British criminals stayed on.Author: Wensley...

They called him Pogo the killer clown. On December 11, 1978, a 15-year-old Des Plaines high school sophomore, Robert Piest, disappeared shortly after leaving work at a pharmacy where John Wayne Gacy had recently completed a remodeling job. Thus began the bizarre, wild murder...

John F. Kennedy's fascination with death--particularly his own--and Lee Harvey Oswald's love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable. With new details from the very latest documents declassified by the CIA and FBI! The so-called "crime of the century"--the...

The so-called "crime of the century"--the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--was almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with security--open cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy...

The South has always been steeped in mystery. Gunshots from duels fought for family honor still echo from the distant past. The same gray Spanish moss that swayed on moonlit nights throughout plantation grounds still move eerily on coastal breezes. It is in this...

The brutal murder of Betsy Faria on December 27, 2011 set off a maelstrom of events that resulted in an innocent man's imprisonment and another man's death. It would take a decade to unravel all the misdirection in the Faria murder case, the misconduct...

In this thoroughly updated and revised edition of Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, Hank Prunckun provides all of the elements required for a successful counterintelligence operation from both an academic and a practitioner's point of view. It offers an advanced understanding of the underlying theory...

Author: Michael Canfield, Alan J. WebermanPublisher: Quick American ArchivesPublished: 12/30/1992Pages: 382Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.88h x 5.86w x 1.04dISBN: 9780932551108

For almost 30 years investigator Ole Dammeg rd has been on a quest to find the truth behind some of the worst conspiracies in the history of world - such as the murders US President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John Lennon and the...

For almost 30 years, Ole Dammeg rd has spent a lot of his awake time searching for the truth behind some of the worst conspiracies in the history of world - such as the murders of president John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther...

"Mikita Brottman is one of today's finest practitioners of nonfiction."--The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction--when most stories end but...

"Mikita Brottman is one of today's finest practitioners of nonfiction."--The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction--when most stories end but...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, DailyTelegraph 'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph ' Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books'These tales of eleven trials are...

An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice from early America to today. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of...