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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Misha Glenny [Glenny, Misha]

Infected by the corruption of the Nigerian state (itself a cankered product of British colonialism), the Igbo traders of the 1980s and 1990s dealt in those products without regard to ...
( Category: True Crime March 22,2018 )
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash
epub |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash Mike]

IT WAS THE Herald that announced the news, on February 20, 1909. Theodore Bingham had taken stock of the situation in Little Italy and decided on a radical solution, the ...
( Category: True Crime March 22,2018 )
Brutal by Kevin Weeks & Phyllis Karas
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Kevin Weeks & Phyllis Karas [Weeks, Kevin & Karas, Phyllis]

SEVEN DRUGS 1980–1990 One afternoon in 1980, I was in the Broadway Appliance and Furniture store with Jimmy and Kevin O’Neil when Billy Shea and Freddie Weichel came in to ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 22,2018 )
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:George Tenet [Tenet, George]

Photographic Insert Being sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence by FBI Director Louis Freeh, July 11, 1997. Wife Stephanie Glakas-Tenet and son John Michael holding the bible. (Official FBI ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 22,2018 )
Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AT THE LORRAINE Motel, a stunned and deeply sleep-deprived Ralph Abernathy started off the morning by giving a brief press conference in the motel parking lot, just below the now-infamous ...
( Category: Americas March 22,2018 )
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Nils Johnson-Shelton & Jay Dobyns
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Nils Johnson-Shelton & Jay Dobyns [Johnson-Shelton, Nils & Dobyns, Jay]

THE PARTY STARTED at one in the afternoon. Timmy and Pops showed up early. JJ and I hung back. We’d be fashionably late. Timmy called to check in around two. ...
( Category: Memoirs March 22,2018 )
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese Jr
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Frank Calabrese Jr. [Calabrese, Frank Jr.]

I was in prison. The trip from the MCC in downtown Chicago to FCI Milan had one stopover. I arrived by bus at USP (United States Penitentiary) Terre Haute, Indiana, ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 22,2018 )
King of the Godfathers: by Anthony M. Destefano
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Anthony M. Destefano [Destefano, Anthony M.]

CHAPTER 16 By the Numbers “What do you think is going on?” asked FBI Director Louis Freeh. Though he was based in Washington, D.C., Freeh kept abreast of crime news ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 22,2018 )
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
epub |eng | 1993-01-15 | Author:Sanyika Shakur [Shakur, Sanyika]

A week later, word was out that the police were looking for me and Crazy De for robbery. Which robbery, I wondered? Shit, we had done so many robberies that ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks March 22,2018 )
Kingpin by Richard Stratton
epub |eng | 2017-03-22 | Author:Richard Stratton

THE HEROIN IS gone, the trial is over, and I am going through withdrawal. I can’t sleep. My legs cramp up at night, and I lie in my bunk staring ...
( Category: True Crime March 22,2018 )
Serial Killers by William Murray
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:William Murray [Murray, William]

Andrei Chikatilo THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN RUSSIA BELIEVED THAT VICIOUS SERIAL KILLINGS WERE A DECADENT WESTERN PHENOMENON. CONSEQUENTLY ANDREI CHIKATILO WAS ALLOWED TO KILL AGAIN AND AGAIN AND, AS A ...
( Category: True Crime March 22,2018 )
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
epub |eng | 2003-10-28 | Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]

The A Pirie & Sons watermark on the Metropolitan Police stationery is the only other non-Sickert/Ripper-related A Pirie watermark I have found during my research, but I am happy to ...
( Category: True Crime March 22,2018 )
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
epub |eng | 2008-01-10 | Author:Sudhir Venkatesh [Venkatesh, Sudhir]

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: Sociology March 22,2018 )
Assassin of Gor (coc-5) by John Norman
epub |eng | 1970-03-19 | Author:John Norman [Norman, John]

16 — THE TARN Less than a month following the downfall of the House of Portus, Cernus had become the undisputed master of the slave trade in Ar. He had ...
( Category: Fantasy March 19,2018 )
The Body Farm (ks-5) by Patricia Cornwell
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]

12 Wesley and I went on to the Red Sage at half past four, which was early for drinks. But neither of us felt very good. It was hard for ...
( Category: Mystery March 19,2018 )

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