True Organized Crime

El retrato demoledor de una dinastía cuya fortuna se construyó gracias a Valium y cuya reputación fue destruida por OxyContin.

The Vanishing Act brings together the first three gripping installments of the Shadows of the Past series, diving deep into the lives, disappearances, and legacies of three extraordinary women. Each case reveals the darker side of history, where secrets, scandals, and societal pressures converge into captivating mysteries that remain unsolved to this day.

The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles "King" Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.

トクリュウの拠点は、台湾にあった!トクリュウこと匿名・流動型犯罪グループの大きな拠点の一つは台湾にあり、日本の暴力団は完全に台湾黒社会の下請。そんな情報を仕入れたジャーナリストが、台中のアジトに潜入取材した。

En Forfærdelig Mand – fra Rocker til Bedemand er en tankevækkende skildring uden moraler. Det er en autentisk og rå fortælling, der tager læseren med ind i Danmarks lukkede fængsler, bagom den organiserede bandekriminalitet og et korrumperet og følelsesforladt menneske - og ud igen på den anden side. Lad det være sagt med det samme, En Forfærdelig Mand – fra Rocker til Bedemand er ikke endnu en rocker-bog, snarere et underholdende kriminalpolitisk hold kæft og tænk-bolsje.

Let's get the story of Abraham Gilbert Saffron down. Just the facts, Your Honour. Wherever you find entertainers performing in neon-lit pubs and clubs, chances are you will find a wannabe gangster or two hanging around. Selling sex and drugs has always been a way to make a fast buck - and potential customers are more open to temptation in pubs, bars, dance halls and nightclubs. Abe Saffron figured all this out very quickly. He was a chancer who kickstarted his criminal career SP bookmaking and receiving stolen goods.

Tom Chandler arrived in Bogotá at the height of the cocaine boom. Pablo Escobar lay dead, the Cali Cartel had taken over much of the global supply and an avalanche of coke was poised to hit Europe. Now the British government wanted Chandler and his team to do the impossible: infiltrate the most powerful crime syndicates on earth and stop their drug shipments. It was a perilous assignment. The cartel bosses operated like a lethal multinational, with armies of hit men and myriad spies in ports, airports, police stations and government offices.

Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers. In this powerful expose, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail, meets the trafficked women trapped by black magic, the brave nuns who try to save them, and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight.

The gripping second instalment of the rise - and spectacular fall - of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption. 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in Western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of 'The Joke' while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade.

Vad som är den slutgiltiga sanningen om fallet Quick blir kanske aldrig klarlagt. Kanske finns det tid nu att fundera över om det är rimligt att en dömd seriemördare går fri på det sätt som skett utan att man först gör en ordentlig ny prövning i domstol av skuldfrågan.

Negli ultimi cinquant'anni mafia, camorra e criminalità comune hanno compiuto una mattanza che non ha eguali in nessuna parte del mondo: l'Italia è il Paese con il maggior numero di vittime che appartengono alla società civile, al mondo delle professioni, alla Chiesa, alle forze dell'ordine e alle istituzioni. Il lungo elenco dei delitti "eccellenti" comprende politici, magistrati, giornalisti, docenti universitari, avvocati, poliziotti, carabinieri, parroci. Uomini che hanno scelto di mettere l'amore per la giustizia e la verità al primo posto: una scelta che è costata loro la vita.

Chained Birds: A Crimemoir is the story of Carla Conti’s 10-year journey to advocate for federal inmate Kevin Sanders and help him re-enter society after prison. But the mission came at a cost as Carla struggled to balance her own, Scott’s, and Kevin’s safety while writing an exposé on the horrific conditions that led to the shutdown of an experimental prison program in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Noël är 15 år när han blir omhändertagen av staten för första gången. Hans unga liv är redan då en krokig väg kantad av våld, vapen, stölder, orosanmälningar och Soc. Gängens lockande livsstil med löften om snabba pengar, gemenskap och makt höll honom i ett järngrepp. Efter att ha bott på flera SiS-hem vet Noël att tillvaron ser väldigt olika ut beroende på var i landet man placeras.

Die in der Westschweiz aufgewachsene Autorin Chantal Frei (Pseudonym) war gerade sechs Jahre alt, als Satanisten entschieden, aus ihr eine "Mother of Darkness" zu machen. Bei grausamen Ritualen traf sie mit Staatschefs, Adligen und Prominenten zusammen. Dafür wurde sie an öffentlich bekannte Plätze – wie das Weisse Haus und das Innere einer berühmten spanischen Basilika – geführt, aber gelangte auch in geheime Militäreinrichtungen und ein abgelegenes Schloss in Belgien.

Years after meeting Pablo Escobar, Peter was hired by the Cali Cartel to assassinate the Colombian drug lord. After months of grueling training, Peter and his group of mercenaries were alerted that the day had come to pick up their weapons and board two helicopters bound for Escobar’s mansion. This book also details Peter’s 25 years of engaging in hair-raising conflict worldwide, from Britain's parachute regiment and the SAS to private military companies and an almost fatal skydiving incident.

Ha$h Tag is the true story of how a gang of small town Vermont border smugglers was drawn into a web involving the Montreal Mafia, a murderous Amsterdam crime cartel known as The Octopus, the Hells Angels, and the largest drug-smuggling incident in Canadian history...only to lose half a billion dollars worth of hashish in the St. Lawrence River.

Es un texto que habla de la muerte, de la desidia, el desamor, y que procura ahondar en la condición humana desde un lugar poco frecuente. Un relato que ilumina sobre lo peor de la sociedad, pero que también intenta dar pistas para entender a sus protagonistas sin que eso implique justificar, aceptar o defender las atrocidades que cometieron.

La historia de un joven que estuvo encarcelado injustamente desde sus 20 años hasta sus 33 y de cómo venció al sistema para quedar libre.

In 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary, How to Sell a Massacre, revealing how One Nation solicited donations of up to $20 million from the NRA, promising in return to use the balance of power to soften gun laws in Australia. Masterminded by veteran Australian journalist Peter Charley, the elaborate sting saw Australian businessman Rodger Muller go undercover as the head of a fake Australian pro-gun advocacy group. In How to Sell a Massacre, Peter Charley gives an inside account of the sting.

The Last Jewish Gangster: The Middle Years starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to 12 years in the world’s most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother’s counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her respect. Once he’s released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts back into a world of crime. He gets Sammy “the Bull” Gravano to join his crew to pull major heists like kidnapping drug lords for million-dollar ransoms and robbing cop bag men. To evade the law, he goes to Europe and ends up in Israel.