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Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
In The Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Rideau Wilbert
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Girl With No Name by Marina Chapman
mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Marina Chapman

18 Over the following weeks, I existed in a strange sort of purgatory, suspended in a place where I felt completely alone. I was no longer one of the monkey ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys March 25,2014 )
The End of Normal by Stephanie Madoff Mack
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Stephanie Madoff Mack

Nineteen days later, Mark tried to kill himself. It was a beautiful Wednesday in October, and my mom and I had gone with Audrey on a preschool class trip to ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Elissa Wall

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FALSE PROPHET Your only real family are [sic] the members of the priesthood who are faithful to our prophet. —WARREN JEFFS The weeks after the prophet’s passing were ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 25,2014 )
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Nicholas Pileggi

* * * LINDA: I first met Henry when Peter Vario started to see my roommate, Veralynn. Henry and I met, and we just hit it off. We both liked ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
The Butcher by Philip Carlo
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Carlo

25 PARTY GIRL One would think, considering how quickly Pitera killed, that he was invincible; that all his troubles could be solved with murder. Murder was like a coat of ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bob Friel

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
The Art of the Heist by Myles J. Connor
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-16 | Author:Myles J. Connor

With summer fast approaching, time was of the essence. Once June arrived, we both knew, the cottage would be host to a steady stream of visitors. If we didn’t pull ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Jason Kersten

WITH THE PEN AND OVI PROBLEMS SOLVED, Art took on the New Note’s most daunting challenge: the watermark. Ever since he’d first seen it that day at Barnes & Noble ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman & Paul Pompian & Jr
mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Frank Calabrese & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman & Paul Pompian & 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: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
Octopus by Guy Lawson
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Guy Lawson

CHAPTER TWELVE The Big Lie Con!dence men are not thieves, at least not in the conventional meaning of the word. The true con man practices an art, a mixture of ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Hardcover by Jeff Guinn
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER FOURTEEN LaBianca and Shea The oppressive L.A. heat wave broke on Saturday evening. The previous day’s temperatures hadn’t dipped below ninety, but now they dropped into the seventies, bringing ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 25,2014 )
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Mark Seal

Part Two CHAPTER 11 “San Marino Bones” At roughly the same time that Clark Rockefeller launched his new life as the husband of Sandra Boss in New York City, a ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Poulsen Kevin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Poulsen, Kevin [Poulsen, Kevin]

21 Master Splyntr aking up one oor of a lime-green o ce building on the bank of the Monongahela River, the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance was far removed ...
( Category: Hacking March 25,2014 )

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