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Brendan Hughes' gritty, fast-paced memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Irish Republican Army in the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes reveals how his secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in 1973 and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation's armed resistance to British rule. For the first time, he also tells the inside story of how...
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TONY ANTHONY knew no fear. Three-times World Kung Fu Champion, he was self-assured, powerful and at the pinnacle of his art. An extraordinary career awaited him. Working in the higher echelons of close protection security, he travelled the globe, guarding some of the world's wealthiest, most powerful, and influential people. This fast paced, compelling and, at times, chilling account is Tony's deeply moving true story. More extraordinary than fantasy,...
4) Scary Deaths
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The human brain is designed to look into the future, but with limitations. The only certainty that exists in life is that everyone dies; but despite this, the brain hides it for fear of maddening its bearer. This truth usually emerges from time to time as a "Fear of death". The fear that that moment will come and that there will be neither present nor future ends up being inevitable. The way it arrives adds uncertainty and horror: will it be sudden...
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"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas."The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had just launched a new consumer-oriented investigative feature by hiring flamboyant former lawman Marvin Zindler to seize the spotlight. The roads from those disparate events crossed quickly...
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"El libro de Sean lleva al lector a través de dos años y medio de horrible decepción y muerte, y más de 40 años de encerrar las emociones y la verdad. Su compasión aflora cuando describe las secuelas del trastorno de estrés postraumático. Se trata de una narración estremecedora e inquietante, pero existe la sensación de que conocer la verdad nos invita a cambiar la realidad de nuestra historia de amor con el ejército. Podemos despertar,...
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Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered...
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This true short story is the first three chapters of my autobiography which should be published in its entirety in July of 2018. I have split my autobiography up, for now at least, because of its length, plus this book that you are about to read deals strictly with my youth. I was for some time, a drug trafficker and gangster once I progressed past high school, but, this book shows how an average teenager can turn into a thug given the right set of...
9) The Real Mr. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom's Most Notorious Cocaine Kingpin
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This true crime memoir is both a "high-speed train trip through the modern cocaine trade" and a story of reform, redemption and family (Gerald Posner, and author of Pharma).
Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw as he grew up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia's Valle of the Cauca. In 1985, he moved to the quiet London suburb of Hendon, where he and his wife held down mundane cleaning and bus driving...
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Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of gangster Johnny Martorano in Hitman.
For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty mob murders-for which Johnny would serve twelve years in...
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After playing what seemed like an endless cat and mouse proffer game with the United States Department of Justice for 5 + years, spending north of 100k on lawyers, and living in a sort of purgatory during which I knew I might serve 3 years in prison at the end of that endless process, I was finally at age 69 mercifully sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison for the first time in my life. And not just any old prison, mind you, but a facility...
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In this intimate true crime biography, the author recounts his great grandfather's journey from local grocer to Prohibition-era crime boss.
Sicilian immigrant "Big George" Niotta did exceptionally well for a grocery wholesaler. That's because his biggest clients were bootleggers. He delivered hundreds of pounds of sugar to illegal liquor operations across California, supplying an essential ingredient and making sweet profits. But his criminal operations...
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The Redhead murders may have involved up to eleven women officially, and there are many separate accounts that claim that this number could be almost as high as twenty or thirty women. The main six murders were committed between October 1978 and the 1980s, but it is thought that the murders might have continued through up until 1992 or beyond. The murders occurred throughout the United States, officially including Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi,...
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A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case says about the role of clergy in America.
On the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He called for help, but it was too late. Two trials and eight years later, the founder of the largest reform synagogue in southern New Jersey became the first rabbi...
15) Killer Couple
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James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman were a troubled couple who were convicted of murdering five people during a deadly rampage that spanned multiple states. The last two victims, 20-year old Corrina Novis and 19-year old Lynell Murray were kidnapped and found strangled and sodomized, and the murderous pair were found guilty of the crimes. Whereas both Marlow and Coffman received the death penalty for Novis' death, Marlow received a second death sentence...
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Not every woman is meant to be a good mother.Mommy Deadliest" is a bone-chilling true crime story that will leave readers reeling with shock and horror. It delves into the twisted mind of Martha Johnson, a seemingly ordinary mother who committed the most heinous of crimes.Martha Johnson's life seemed perfect from the outside - a loving husband, a beautiful home, and four adorable children. But beneath the surface, her marriage was crumbling, and Martha's...
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"With Blood in Their Hands: Biographies of Contemporary Dictators" offers a chilling yet illuminating exploration into the lives and reigns of some of the most notorious dictators of the modern era. From their rise to power to their ruthless methods of control, this compelling book provides a comprehensive examination of the individuals who have wielded authoritarian rule over their nations with devastating consequences.Through meticulous research...
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A collection of poetry and prose by six incarcerated men. Featuring an introduction by Amber Epps and an afterword by novelist John Edgar Wideman. The six authors of Life Sentences―Fly, Faruq, Khalifa, Malakki, Oscar, and Shawn―met at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh and came together in 2013 to form the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice. The men met weekly for years, along with other writers, activists,...
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From a multiple Edgar Award winner: Three gripping accounts of murder, betrayal, and greed that made headlines and shocked the nation.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee for his landmark work, The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley, Richard Hammer is a fearless chronicler of the dark side of human nature. Here in one volume are three of his most electrifying true crime accounts.
The CBS Murders: On a warm spring evening in New York City, four people were shot...
20) Bushranger Gold
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A true story. In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of £6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were searching the bush for the audacious bushrangers who numbered between 6 and 15 depending on who was telling the story. Despite aboriginal trackers and extensive searches, they could not be found. The full weight of the constabulary was thrown behind...
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