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"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations...
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"On the Lam is a detailed history of fugitives in the United States. The authors explore how law enforcement officials and others, including bounty hunters and bail-bond workers, have tracked fugitives over the past two centuries. They also examine how fugitives have influenced American history and the American criminal justice system"-- Provided by publisher.
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A convict in prison suspected of multiple murders asks that Detective Sargeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former priest andthe man who put him in jail, be brought to the prison so he can make a confession to him. When Ainslie arrives, the convict tells him he should be investigating his own police department for murder.
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As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz;...
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A search for the truth behind the DEA's life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr. Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall-and rise and fall again-of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King:” William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and...
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While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In Oswald’s Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald’s most formative moments, beginning with his days as a difficult but intelligent child. She traces his erratic service in the Marine Corps, his youthful marriage, and...
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New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new short story sets Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill on Italy's beautiful Amalfi Coast for their long-delayed honeymoon with their daughter, Amena—where they encounter art thieves with ties to the underworld . . .
Between the delectable meals, the gorgeous Mediterranean seaside, and historical sites, Pike and Jennifer are enjoying
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Touted in his time as one of the "great men of the West," Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system...
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In the days of clickbait news, it's hard to see the truth behind today's biggest stories. Karyn Turk, Mrs. Florida 2016, was no stranger to headlines. She worked behind the scenes as an executive for CBS, then won the 2016 Mrs. Florida Pageant just as Donald J. Trump was running for president. She became a well-recognized crisis media manager for high-profile political cases that made headlines and had no fear of controversy. Karyn's desire to stand...
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When Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke investigates a sniper ambushing four hikers in West Texas's Big Bend National Park, he gets caught in the same sniper's crosshairs.
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When fifty-five rebels descended on Nick and violently pushed him into a car, he knew he might never survive this day. Guns were fired and screams filled the air. The threats of the rebels on Lorna's cellphone: "Pick a coffin! We're sending him back to you in a coffin!" With each phone call Nick made to her, she was painfully aware of the torture and beatings inflicted on him, while the rebels desperately tried to raise the ransom through the only...
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Camille, jeune homme pauvre du Gâtinais rural est désigné par le sort pour accomplir en 1904 un service militaire de trois ans.
Mobilisé en 1914 en appartenance à la Territoriale, il rentre au pays en 1919 à l'âge de 36 ans après une guerre bien saignante de quatre ans.
Sept années furent données ainsi au service du pays.
Mais la deuxième guerre allemande contraint la France à signer l'Armistice le 22/06/40. Sa Libération, après le...
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Cartouche et ses accolytes, une organisation criminelle ?
Gentilshommes assassinés, diligences attaquées, bandits masqués, gardes froidement éliminés, bourgeois détroussés… Celui à qui on attribue tous ces méfaits, Louis-Dominique Cartouche, le plus célèbre bandit de grand chemin de tous les temps, est aujourd'hui devenu un héros légendaire, souvent représenté chevauchant les grands chemins de France à la tête de ses hommes. Certains...
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A memoir of one man's journey into, and out of, the movement that foreshadowed the modern-day "Antifa." Between 1999-2005, as the nation convulsed with uncertainty over a contested election and the Sept. 11 attacks, A.J. Lozier attended and helped organize protests across the United States, as an active participant in the anarchist "black bloc," predecessor to the modern-day "Antifa." He was charged, tackled, swung at, shot at with rubber bullets,...
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BJ has the answer to the Drug War, but with a criminal history, nobody is listening. Based on a true story. Optioned for a true crime movie.
Overzealous Narcotic Detective Pincher, on paid leave and under investigation, starts using drugs, and then is hired again as a Narcotic Detective in L.A where he steals heroin from the evidence locker until he is reeled in by the Mexican Mafia and the Hollywood Madam.
B.J, just released from prison, struggles...
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Pierre Haski révèle le destin et la personnalité de Liu Xiaobo, un héros méconnu qui a eu le courage de défier Pékin.
Le 10 décembre 2010, le prix Nobel de la paix était remis à Oslo à... une chaise vide. Le lauréat, l'intellectuel dissident chinois Liu Xiaobo se trouvait au même moment dans une cellule d'une prison chinoise, purgeant une peine de neuf années d'emprisonnement pour avoir réclamé la démocratie. La vie de Liu Xiaobo...
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C'est un « Baqueux », l'un de ces flics que l'on envoie au charbon dès que « L'ordre républicain » est menacé. Rien de plus normal pour un petit-fils de mineur qui a la « foi du charbonnier » chevillée au corps. Et c'est avec ses valeurs que Michel est entré dans la « Grande Maison », celle de la Police. Des valeurs simples, transmises par un père qui ne plaisantait pas avec le respect, le travail et la reconnaissance due au pays.
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Plongé pendant cinq ans dans la tourmente afghane, Pierre Pouchairet, chargé de la coopération en matière de sécurité, a été témoin des prémices de la fin de la campagne des forces alliées en Afghanistan. Il y a ctoyé la communauté expatriée et afghane, ses hypocrisies, ses malheurs et ses doutes, des moments parfois drles, parfois tragiques. Il raconte avec une plume acerbe les missions françaises dans ce pays, et révèle des secrets...
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In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that...
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