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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from ""America’s top chronicler of organized crime""* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne. By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of...

Un experimento moral para erradicar el alcohol desató la mayor ola de crimen organizado y corrupción de la historia. Ideal para tu viaje diario, esta absorbente crónica te sumerge en los oscuros callejones del contrabando estadounidense. Explora cómo una cruzada política bien intencionada...

Family Business: Gier, Geld, Geheimnisse erzählt die Geschichten großer Familien und schillernder Dynastien. Die Schwestern Anna Dushime und Amélia Umuhire geben Einblicke in das Innere von Familien, die über Jahrzehnte oder gar Jahrhunderte Unternehmen und Imperien gelenkt haben. Denn die ganz großen Dramen der Weltgeschichte um Macht, Geld und Einfluss spielen sich nicht selten in Familien ab.

In the early 1980s, a series of quiet, targeted killings spread through a criminal underworld. The dead were not innocent. There were men already living outside the law, and their disappearances passed largely unnoticed. For years, the murders attracted little scrutiny. Then forensic evidence began to surface, revealing a pattern that could no longer be ignored. At the centre of it was Werner Pinzner, known as "Mucki." He operated efficiently within a system designed to protect those who ordered the killings and those who carried them out.

Enemies Within explores Adair’s rise from neo-Nazi skinhead to leader of the notorious Ulster Freedom Fighters, a cover-name for the assassination wing of the Ulster Defence Association, a Protestant paramilitary group that killed hundreds of people during the Troubles. With unprecedented...

Brought to you by Penguin. Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of one man who stood in opposition. In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The...

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...

A Wiser Guy tells the evolution of an Italian American Mafia family in the United States during the golden years of the Mafia, the ‘20s through the ‘90s, culminating with its decline at the end of the 20th century. The story is told through the lives of Louis, Ernie, and Paul, three men of three different generations of the Palmeri family. Louis makes us travel from the ‘20s through the ‘90s in the lives of members of the Cosa Nostra. In Niagara Falls and Buffalo, during prohibition.

Cosa hanno in comune il fotoreporter spagnolo naturalizzato francese assassinato dalle gang salvadoregne che stava provando a raccontare, la giornalista maltese che aveva accusato il potere politico di gestire affari criminali, il prete di Casal di Principe che per amore del suo popolo aveva deciso di ribellarsi alla camorra, i giudici di Palermo che hanno continuato a fare il proprio lavoro sapendo che sulle loro vite pendeva una condanna a morte, l'agente italo americano sotto copertura che ha sacrificato sei anni della sua vita per smantellare la mafia newyorchese?

En 2008, cuando Jesús Lemus dirigía el periódico El Tiempo de La Piedad, Michoacán, publicó diversas notas que irritaron a las autoridades locales. La venganza de los poderosos no se hizo esperar: le fabricaron cargos criminales y lo enviaron al penal de máxima seguridad de Puente Grande. Después de varios años encerrado e incontables tribulaciones, Lemus consiguió la libertad. Gracias a la fuerza que el oficio de periodista le brindó, se decidió a contar su historia y la de aquellos hombres con los que compartió torturas y humillaciones.

Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar’s Medellín drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. Deployed to Panama, he worked, travelled, partied and washed millions with Central...

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the...

The shocking story of corruption, violence and organised crime inside the CMFEU In 2024, the spotlight fell on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), and specifically the Victorian branch. Whistleblowers and witnesses pointed to the union's sinister links with outlaw...

Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control...

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range...

INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION WRITTEN AND READ BY MARTIN SCORSESE! Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and...

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it...

As the 21st century marches into its third decade, our understanding of the world, and our place within it, seems to be clearer than ever. Each day brings us more and more miraculous scientific discoveries, while technology has interconnected us to an extent that our ancestors and forefathers could not have conceived. And yet, despite the collective of human knowledge lying at our fingertips, there are still a multitude of unsolved mysteries that stubbornly resist any attempts at solving them.

フィリピン・ホロ島の反政府イスラム・ゲリラ組織に拉致され、日本政府からも見捨てられた一人の日本人青年を救うため、命を賭け、1年2カ月もの時間を費やした。もとより一銭の得にもならず、売名でもあらず己の本能ともいえる義侠心の命ずるままの行動であったのだが、彼はそんな野暮なことは口にしなかった。では、何のため？　彼はこう答えた。すべては胸に空いた隙間を埋めるため――山口組分裂を機に断腸の思いで渡世から足を洗った男はいまだ胸にたぎる情熱、その燃焼先を求めてフィリピンへと渡った。

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs. "Explosive." —New York Daily News Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the...