Political Crime

The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with approximately 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. With true crime podcasts like Serial bringing these statistics to the forefront of our minds and giving us an insight into what the...

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist...

If any day calls for a soothing glass of wine, it's today. One moment, Capitol Hill lobbyist Karina Cardinal is having a heated discussion with Senator Harper, who just torpedoed her latest health care legislation initiative. The next, after a cryptic remark, the senator is dead at her feet. Hours later, she's still so rattled she wakes to a freezing apartment because she forgot to close her back door. Or did she?

Marcus Williams and Francis Ackerman Jr. both have a talent for hurting people. Marcus, a former New York City homicide detective, uses his abilities to protect others while Ackerman uses his gifts to inflict pain and suffering. When both men become unwilling pawns in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of our government, Marcus finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse trapped between a twisted psychopath and a vigilante with seemingly unlimited resources. Aided by a rogue FBI agent and the vigilante’s daughter, Marcus must expose the deadly political conspiracy.

South Africa is under attack from all sides when Elanza, a politically connected heiress blinded by disease and looking for love before it is too late, meets a naïve English boy. Ralph, 18 and innocent, has accidentally stumbled upon Elanza - and South Africa’s biggest secret. When Ralph disappears into the darkest part of the continent to walk home overland, a Swazi spy, the only black African agent working for the apartheid-era National Intelligence Service, comes into both of their lives.

In the Cambodian hinterlands, a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot, muddy, interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs, he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming for...

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life. On the morning of August...

Five years ago, Robert Clarion was immersed in that perilous world of double-crosses, late-night drug deals, and constant glances over his shoulder. A dispute with a drug supplier culminated in the kidnapping of Clarion's daughter Rachel. He made a promise to his wife that, if they got their daughter back, he would get out of the drug business and never let anyone stand in the way of his family's safety again. With the help of FBI agent Jack Paris, Clarion's daughter was rescued, but the person who carried out the kidnapping was never identified or captured.

This suspenseful true story of a drug cartel hitman who got away with murder after murder in California's Central Valley over three decades reveals how the criminal justice system fails our most vulnerable immigrant communities. On the surface, fifty-eight-year-old Jose Martinez didn't seem evil...

A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a...

The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post “A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and...

Cambodia—seething hotbed of desperation and vice. The Khmer Rouge fighters are long dead but their murderous legacy has left a population gripped by violence. Into this cauldron of psychosis and trauma steps Carl Meissner, a 32-year-old unemployed investigative journalist recently fired over his reporting of a pedophile scandal involving a prominent Sydney judge. Carl has been hired by a wealthy Sydney businessman to find his missing twin brother, last sighted in Cambodia. Forced to face his own demons, he sinks into Cambodia's dark underworld.

Eine brutale Geiselnahme. Und die Welt schaut zu. Ein spektakuläres Verbrechen hält eine Kleinstadt in Atem: Drei Neonazis werden in einem Turm gefangen gehalten. Ephraim Zamir, der Geiselnehmer, konfrontiert sie in einem Verhör mit ihren Gewalttaten und überträgt das Ganze live im Netz. Die Zuschauer sollen abstimmen: freilassen oder hinrichten? Es ist der Beginn eines weltweiten Medienspektakels. Für die Polizei ist es ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Womit sie nicht rechnen: Sie haben es mit einem ehemaligen Mossad-Agenten zu tun, der nicht bereit ist zu verhandeln.

La llamada la despertó a medianoche. Elba Esther contestó inquieta, del otro lado de la línea los secretarios de Hacienda y Gobernación insistían en verla: las negociaciones con el sindicato habían llegado a un punto muerto y el presidente deseaba que se reunieran. La recorrió un mal presentimiento, sabía que podría ser una trampa, pero no le quedaba otra opción. Al día siguiente, abordó el avión privado que la esperaba para llevarla hasta Toluca, de ahí viajaría hacia la capital para desayunar en Los Pinos.

Nach "Turmschatten" der zweite Band der aufsehenerregenden Thrillerreihe von Peter Grandl – noch aktueller, noch brisanter, noch packender! Zehn Jahre nach der spektakulären Geiselnahme: Der Hochbunker beherbergt mittlerweile einen jüdischen Kindergarten. Als dieser Ziel eines rechtsradikalen Attentats wird, rückt der Turm erneut ins Zentrum von Medien und Politik. Zehn Kindern und zwei Betreuerinnen gelingt zunächst die Flucht in die geheimen Katakomben des Turms. Doch dort lagert verschollenes Nazigold, für das mancher bereit ist, zu töten.

La regina d`Inghilterra ha 93 anni. Il processo di insediamento di un nuovo monarca è già in fase di organizzazione. Suo figlio, il principe Carlo, è l`erede apparente. Tuttavia, qualcuno sta tentando di modificare la linea di successione. Ci sono oltre 140 persone in fila per diventare monarca. Se il Principe Carlo fosse per qualsiasi motivo, incapace di ascendere, allora il prossimo in linea, Principe William, diventerebbe Re.

When Monique Duchesne sees the police outside her door long after midnight, she fears they are waiting for her. Instead of interrogating her about her past again, they want to talk about her murdered neighbor. A man she barely knew. Convinced the police suspect she knows more than she admits, Monique risks everything to find the killer before her world explodes. The deeper she digs, the closer the killer gets. Is the murder a coincidence, or is someone targeting her?

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the...

“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges, prosecutors, juvenile probation officers, sociologists, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see, today, thirty...

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...