CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1537296302; ISBN13: 978-1537296302. The mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix. Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terrible enemy, yet a wonderful friend. While donating millions to the poor, he...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1537296302; ISBN13: 978-1537296302. The mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix. Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terrible enemy, yet a wonderful friend. While donating millions to the poor, he...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 460 p. — ISBN10: 1476716498. — ISBN13: 978-1476716497. The definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova. Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real story of this remarkable...
Bookmark Förlag, 2016. — 261 s. Pablo Escobar var den colombianske knarkkungen vars kriminella kokainimperium höll en hel nation som gisslan. Men för Escobar räckte det inte att vara rik och mäktig. Han ville framför allt bli beundrad, respekterad och älskad. I Killing Pablo Escobar skildras närgånget den mytomspunne kartelledarens uppgång och den sexton månader långa jakt som...
London: Atlantic Books, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78239-347-4; ISBN: 978-1-78239-348-1. After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0253356067 ISBN13: 9780253356062. When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler - wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" - set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief...
Abc-Clio, LLC, 2010. — 275 p. — ISBN: 978-0-313-35451-9. American gangsters, then and now. Encyclopedia American Gangsters, Then and Now: An Encyclopedia ranges from Western outlaws revered as Robin Hoods to the Depression's flamboyant bootleggers and bank robbers to the late 20th century's drug kingpins and "Dapper Dons." It is the first comprehensive resource on the...
Lwȯw: Gubrynowicz i Schmidt, 1898. — 292 p.: il. Jedną z najbardziej zagadkowych postaci w dziejach powszechnych, był niewątpliwie pierwszy Dymitr Samozwaniec. Jeżeli już sama tajemniczość jego pochodzenia zwracała nań uwagę historyków i poetów, jeszcze więcej pociągały ich jego zdolności niepospolite, śmiałe i daleko sięgające plany, zrazu powodzenie zdumiewające, a w końcu...
Skyhorse, 2019. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 1510757929 ISBN13: 978-1510757929. This is — for the first time — the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American history. He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1681771446; ISBN13: 978-1681771441. The gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II's court One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1681771446; ISBN13: 978-1681771441. The gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II's court One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he...
Greenwood, 2003. — 168 p. For more than 70 years, Al Capone has been equated with wealth, violence, and corruption. As America's most infamous criminal, he has intrigued, attracted, and repulsed the general public with his legendary criminal deeds. This concise biography separates the myth from the man. Beginning with a historical look at corruption in American societyâ€along...
DoppelHouse Press, 2016. — 256 c. — ISBN10: 0997003472, ISBN13: 978-0997003475. Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of...
DoppelHouse Press, 2016. — 256 c. — ISBN10: 0997003472, ISBN13: 978-0997003475. Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of...
Harper, 2004 Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed paths - and often swords - with the likes of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. He was a muse to William Blake and the inspiration for both Mozart's Magic Flute and Goethe's Faust....
Harper, 2004 Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed paths - and often swords - with the likes of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. He was a muse to William Blake and the inspiration for both Mozart's Magic Flute and Goethe's Faust....
Harper, 2004 Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed paths - and often swords - with the likes of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. He was a muse to William Blake and the inspiration for both Mozart's Magic Flute and Goethe's Faust....
The Free Press, 2002. — 272 p. It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is...
PublicAffairs, 2011. — 224 p. — eISBN 978-1-568-58668-7. In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI,...
2nd Ed. — Facts on File, 2006. — 529 p. — (Facts on File Crime Library). — ISBN10: 0816061955, 13 978-0816061952. The Encyclopaedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition provides accurate information on hundreds of serial murder cases - from early history to the present. Written in a non-sensational manner, this authoritative encyclopaedia debunks many of the myths surrounding this...
2nd Ed. — Facts on File, 2006. — 529 p. — (Facts on File Crime Library). — ISBN10: 0816061955, 13 978-0816061952. The Encyclopaedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition provides accurate information on hundreds of serial murder cases - from early history to the present. Written in a non-sensational manner, this authoritative encyclopaedia debunks many of the myths surrounding this...
New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. — 192 p. — ISBN: 1560258853. For ten years during the early eighteenth century, the Caribbean was terrorized by a host of ruthless pirates who, more than at any other time, seized ships and cargoes at will and severed trade links that were the life-blood of a fledgling empire. But of all the thieves and thugs active during the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 336 p. John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. His book The Profession of Violence was published 28 years ago (by W&N) to huge acclaim and is still in print today in paperback. The Krays film was based on the book and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967, the year before they were arrested, the...
Naperville: Sourcebooks, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1402253540; ISBN13: 9781402253546. Shocking Stories of the Most Infamous Unsolved Crimes Every criminal dreams of committing the perfect crime. A crime that is so well executed, with clues and evidence so scarce, that even the experts are left baffled. The Killer Book of Cold Cases takes you behind the crime scene tape and deep...
J.F. Blair, 1993. — 214 p. — ISBN: 978-0-89587-098-8. This book is not intended to take the place of an academic treatise, but I have spent weeks researching at the Library of Congress, making phone calls to libraries eliciting their cooperation, and visiting cities or islands frequented by pirates the length of the Atlantic coast from Portland, Maine; Portsmouth, New...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2010. — 327 p. The true story of one of the twentieth century's most audacious art frauds. Filled with extraordinary characters and told at breakneck speed, Provenance reads like a well-plotted thriller. But this is most certainly not fiction. It is the astonishing narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate cons in the history of art...
Basic Books, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-0465021819. Unlike previous accounts of the man who assassinated Kennedy, which focus on whether he acted alone, journalist Savodnik here delivers a genuine biography that emphasizes the nearly three years Oswald spent in the Soviet Union and attempts to address the oft-neglected question of why he wanted to kill the President. A mildly...
Gallery Books, 2006. — 352 p. Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more — they examine all...
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. — 423 p. — ISBN: 0-345-47200-4. English. The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers...There are people who genuinely believe that serial killers are a strictly contemporary phenomenon, a symptom of something horribly amiss in the moral fabric of modern American society. Since the purpose of this book is to...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 492 p. — ISBN10: 1626365466. — ISBN13: 978-1626365469 In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three “confidence men.” In addition to the stark black and white photos that accompanied the article,...
UNC Press. 2021. — 176 p. Legions of bluegrass fans know the name Otto Wood (1893 – 1930) from a ballad made popular by Doc Watson, telling the story of Wood's crimes and violent death. However, few know the history of this Appalachian figure beyond the larger-than-life version heard in the song. Trevor McKenzie reconstructs Wood's life, tracing how a Wilkes County juvenile...
TwoDot, 2016. — 409 p. — ISBN10: 1493023284. — ISBN13: 978-1493023288. This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train...
New York: Penguin Group, 2004. — 434 p. — ISBN 0-7865 -5419- 3. The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide. In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious...
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2003. — 104 p. — (Collective Biographies). — ISBN: 0766015424. Describes the lives of the pirates Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Samuel Bellamy, Edward Teach, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, John Paul Jones, Jean Laffite, and Cheng I Sao. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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