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Dr. James Kauffman and his wife, April, were the perfect couple: a respected endocrinologist and a beautiful radio host. But under the surface lurked a world of drugs, sex, and biker gangs. A world Dr. Kauffman would kill to keep secret. In May 2012, April Kauffman, a well-known local radio...

“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has...

Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there from...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

"Black Friday by S Hussain Zaidi is a ghastly account of the one of the biggest terrorist attack on Bombay in 1993. The book chronicles the devastation caused to life and property due to the attacks and the trauma, both physical and mental, underwent by the people at large post the...

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter...

A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA’S GREAT CRIME EPIC A Mystery Writers of America “Grand Master”—author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner—teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting...

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand...

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had...

La vita di Peppino Impastato, ucciso dalla mafia nel '78, raccontata come mai prima d'ora. Peppino e Giovanni Impastato nascono a Cinisi, nella città metropolitana di Palermo, in una famiglia strettamente legata a Cosa Nostra. Ben presto Peppino, più grande del fratello di cinque anni, si ribella e viene cacciato di casa. Da qui inizia il suo coraggioso attivismo antimafia e il suo impegno politico nella sinistra, ragioni per le quali la mafia lo uccide nel 1978, insabbiandone l'omicidio. Ma la verità e la rivoluzionaria lotta di Peppino non possono essere fermati.

No Return: The Lost Children of Mexico’s Highways by Samantha J. Garcia is an investigative nonfiction account of the disappearance of more than two hundred children along Mexico’s major highway routes. Through research, field reporting, and testimony from families and experts, the audiobook exposes how corruption, organized crime, and weak institutions allow these vanishings to occur.

In deze deels autobiografische roman moet een jonge vrouw, die ongewild verstrikt raakt in de wereld van mensensmokkelaars, een fatale keuze maken met verwoestende gevolgen voor haar gezin.

Moral Compass: Sins of the Father is the gripping memoir of Dr. Carmine Romano, the eldest son of an Italian immigrant entangled in the Pittsburgh Mafia. Raised under the shadow of crime and control, Romano confronts a legacy steeped in violence and secrecy—yet ultimately forges a different path. Told with raw honesty and emotional depth, this powerful story challenges listeners to examine how much of our destiny is shaped by our upbringing—and how much is defined by the choices we make.

Intorno alle stragi del 1993, nonostante i trent'anni trascorsi e le numerose sentenze giunte all'ultimo grado di giudizio, permangono ancora molti misteri e opacità. Tanto che sono tuttora in corso inchieste sui «concorrenti esterni» per la collocazione delle bombe esplose a Firenze, Milano e Roma che causarono dieci morti e centosei feriti. A ricostruire le inchieste nei particolari ed evidenziarne il rilievo è ora questo libro che segue il filo rosso che porta agli assassini di Falcone e Borsellino ma anche a quello di don Pino Puglisi.

Drugs, cartels, mafia, addiction, the FBI, and coercion - this is the untold story behind the tragic decline of football's most gifted and controversial legend. Maradona was football's ultimate genius - a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pelé. But off the field, the boy from the...

The Profession of Violence pulls back the curtain on the rise and eventual fall of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, London's most infamous gangsters. Charting their transformation from East End boys to the ruling figures of London’s criminal underworld during the 1960s, John Pearson's vivid account shows how they ran an empire of organised crime the likes of which London had never seen. Built on lies, extortion, and extreme violence and murder, Pearson also shows the strange brotherly relationship that kept them bound in blood until their eventual downfall and imprisonment.

The infamy of Miami’s cocaine wars of the 1970s and 80s is forever etched into the darkest chapters of US history, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the frontlines for all of it. The decorated and controversial law enforcement figure identified the shifting tide in the Magic City when law enforcement lost their grip on crime as a new breed of criminal flooded South Florida to ply their billion-dollar trade. In a deadly exclamation mark, Colombian cocaine godmother Griselda Blanco and her assassins swept through the city with a bloody and ruthless ambition that left countless dead bodies along the way.

In this gripping guide to one of the most infamous figures in criminal history, discover the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar-the, ruthless kingpin who ruled the world's cocaine trade. From his humble beginnings in Medellin to building a multi-billion-dollar empire, this audiobook takes you through his notorious moments, the myths surrounding his life, and the brutal reality behind his legendary status.

Alles auf Lefty: Der Strippenzieher, der die Mafia nach Las Vegas führteDie wahre Geschichte von Frank „Lefty“ Rosenthal – jenem Glücksspielgenie, das Las Vegas zur Geldmaschine der Mafia machte und dafür bezahlen musste, auf beiden Seiten gespielt zu haben. Bevor Casino verfilmt wurde, war die Handlung dieses Filma Leftys Leben – eine wahre Geschichte voller Brillanz, Verrat und Blei. Vom Hinterzimmer-Buchmacher in Chicago bis zum Kopf der Casinos Stardust, Fremont, Marina und Hacienda! Lefty managte Las Vegas nicht nur, er beherrschte die Stadt.