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Vanishing ACT: A Crashed Airliner, Faked Death, and Backroom AbortionsOver a span of 39 years, 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and nearly a dozen imprisonments, Robert Spears lived a con artist's life of unparalleled adventure and intrigue. But that is far from the end of his story.Shortly before Thanksgiving Day in...
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Vanlife Nightmare: The Gabby Petito StoryThe search for 22-year-old Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito, who had gone missing on a vanlife journey across the United States with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, filled newspaper pages and cable TV newscasts for weeks in the fall of 2021. The couple started their cross-country trip...
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Vatican Ratline: The Vatican, the Nazis and the New World OrderVatican Ratline is the true story of recovered memories of one survivor of the post World War II ratline interwoven with the history of the players. It exposes why we are seeing a return to the Middles Ages, the crusades, the inquisition, the slave...
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Vegas and the Chicago Outfit: The Skimming of Las VegasChicago was the worldwide leader in gangster wars and bootlegging in the 1920s, as Al Capone set the stage for his tremendous success and popularity. When he was safely away in prison, the Chicago Outfit expanded into more rackets involving gambling and loan sharking,...
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Vegas and the MobLas Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's history...
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Vegas Concierge: Sex Trafficking, Hip Hop, and Corruption in AmericaVegas Concierge tells the tale of domestic sex trafficking in America through the riveting inside story of a decade-long investigation into sex trafficking, police corruption, and hip-hop music in Sin City. A layered saga spanning more than a decade, Vegas Concierge moves from the...
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Veil of DoubtWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of...
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the Cia, 1981-1987From Bob Woodward, legendary investigative reporter, Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged by the CIA across Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the...
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Velvet Volume 1SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE! From the bestselling creators of Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes this smash-hit spy thriller with a unique new twist! When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director...
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Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist TeamVengeance is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven...
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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's WifeFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican:...
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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman TarnowerA classic tale of true crime, now an HBO film titled Mrs. Harris starring Annette Bening as Jean Harris and Sir Ben Kingsley as the Scarsdale Diet doctor Jean Harris belonged to the last generation of Americans brought up to believe thaAuthor: Shana AlexanderPublisher:...
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Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semirural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers, home of the Crips and Bloods and the first...
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Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to SurvivorsThe shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' re-victimization by the justice system. In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned...
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Victim of the SystemA true story about the many tragedies stemming from an unsolved murder and an innocent man rotting in jail for that crime. Drew Whitley spent over eighteen years in prison wrongfully convicted of murdering Noreen Malloy before establishing his innocence. Written from the perspective...
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Victim: The Other Side of MurderNow a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence. During an armed robbery, several hostages were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Victim...
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Victims of the Ax Fiend: Mystery, Mayhem and the Church of Sacrifice MurdersVICTIMS OF THE AX FIEND MYSTERY, MAYHEM AND THE CHURCH OF SACRIFICE MURDERSAuthor Troy Taylor has been researching American crime for nearly 30 years and has revealed dark tales of murder, mayhem, and horror in book after book - but no other case is...
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Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World'Fascinating' Daily Mail'An incredible story' Daily Mirror??The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us, ' The Times wrote in 1919. 'He is prone to the most detestable tactics,...
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Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable CrimesThis riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause c l bre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of...
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Victorian Southwest Michigan True CrimeMurder and mystery haunt the shadowy corners of the Victorian Era in Southwest Michigan. Decades after his supposed death in 1846, a litigious bachelor was discovered to have been buried alive. In 1865, a Battle Creek woman, yearning for her lover, used Spiritualism to...
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