True Organized Crime

The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and arsonists.... The screws who guard Britain's prisons have seen them all. Banged Up! is the story of six of the country's most notorious jails—Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway—and of the men and women who entered their gates.

How far would you be willing to go to do what you think is righteous and noble? Would you believe in something so passionately that you would be willing to take enormous risk or possibly make the ultimate sacrifice? A compelling and candid story of an unusual young man that lives a nefarious secret life that takes him into the bowels of human trafficking and slavery. For 10 years, he encounters many deadly pathetic excuses for human beings and survives to tell his story decades later.

Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays.... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the 17th century to the present.

"Fariña" és un relat interessant que narra, a través de testimonis directes, el narcotràfic a Galicia des del principi del contraban fins a l’actualitat. Del contraban de tabac es va passar al de cocaïna. La manca de legislació, impunitat, permissivitat, l’acceptació social i el desconeixement del gran problema que allà es gestava va ajudar a crear una organització que va ser la responsable de què el 80 % de la cocaïna arribés a Europa per les costes gallegues.

Peter Jaarveld is geobsedeerd door Tinus, een vriendin van zijn overleden vrouw. Hij is er zeker van dat ze in gevaar is, zit haar voortdurend op de hielen en krijgt ten slotte een straatverbod opgelegd. Dan wordt Tinus overvallen en in een coma geslagen. Peter wordt verdacht en ontslagen door zijn werkgever, een Amsterdams architectenbureau.

Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good, and the work was easy - or so he thought. He had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the UK. Refusal was not an option. There followed a harrowing journey to Venezuela, where almost £50 million of coke was waiting. But someone had tipped off the authorities. Donald and his fellow crewman were arrested, convicted of drug smuggling, and sentenced to six years in the notorious island prison of San Antonio.

The story of one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his meteoric rise to fame.

Leonardo Sciascia pubblicò Il giorno della civetta nel 1961. Fu il primo, vero libro sulla mafia in Sicilia. Con un epilogo amaro: alla fine vince il boss. Da allora si è sempre tentato di cambiare quella conclusione. Non solo in letteratura. Ci siamo riusciti? La Sicilia è stata l'inconscio della storia italiana. Il suo incubo. Una peste siciliana si è diffusa nel pianeta, contagiandolo. Oggi l'epidemia è di nuovo in cammino, da Milano a Palermo, dall'Europa agli Stati Uniti.

Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el "enigma Z", Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el país en los años venideros ante un potencial crecimiento desmedido de esta organización criminal.

Las Vegas, 1970s - a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes - the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history - whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair’s breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino.

Los crímenes del mayor asesino en serie en nuestro país, las mentiras del caso de las niñas de Alcásser, el secuestro y asesinato de un empresario gallego y de su familia... y muchos más casos que vienen a demostrarnos que en España también existe el horror del asesinato. El criminólogo Antonio Trujillo realiza un escalofriante recorrido detallando y analizando los crímenes que estremecieron a España en los últimos años.

Natten mellan den 12 och 13 juni år 1908 rodde en man ut till fartyget Amalthea som låg ankrat i Malmös hamn. Han slängde in ett paket med 2 kilo dynamit genom en lastlucka och tände därefter på den långa stubintråden. En strejkbrytare dödades och flera andra skadades i vad som skulle bli känt som Sveriges första politiska attentat.

Javier Valdez recoge los relatos más intensos, conmovedores y sorprendentes que tiñen la realidad social y política de México a diario. El número de niños y jóvenes que participan activamente en las actividades del narcotráfico en México es cada día mayor. Batos de 13, 14,15 años y hasta los 21 ó 23 años actúan alucinados y con feroz valentía en levantones, asesinatos, decapitaciones, transporte de droga y secuestros. Y este libro impactante comparte historias reales de estos acontecimientos.

Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There, he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances....

The Beverly Hills Supper Club was Vegas before Vegas was cool. It was known as the "Showplace of the Nation" before it burned to the ground in 1977, killing at least 165 people - one of the worst fires in US history. But few knew that the Beverly Hills had a violent past of deadly arson beginning in 1936, when it was taken over by the Cleveland mob that ran "Sin City" in Newport, Kentucky - an open city of prostitution, extortion, gambling, and violence for decades, until new US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy went to war on the mob in 1961.

Biloxi, Mississippi: After the fatal shooting of one of the city’s most prominent couples - Vincent Sherry was a circuit court judge; his wife, Margaret, was running for mayor - their grief-stricken daughter came home to uncover the truth behind the crime that shocked a community and to follow leads that police seemed unable or unwilling to pursue. What Lynne Sposito soon discovered were bizarre connections to the Dixie Mafia, a predatory band of criminals who ran The Strip, Biloxi’s beachfront hub of sex, drugs, and sleaze.

If you think you know everything about the East End's toughest gangsters, think again. Meet Linda Calvey, a.k.a. the Black Widow. Growing up in the East End of London, Linda falls in with gangsters including the Krays, Freddie Foreman and Ronnie Cook. When the love of her life, Mickey Calvey, is gunned down on a job gone wrong, Linda resolves to carry on his work. But in 1990, after years of living in fear of her lover Ronnie Cook, Linda finds herself accused of his murder in a trial that shocks the nation. Still, Linda sticks to her code of honour, refusing to confess. Until now.

In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal immigrants in America, Operation Devil Horns illustrates how politically correct ideology impacts life-or-death crime fighting on the streets.

Dock Boss: Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront is the fascinating account of one gangster's ascension from altar boy to the leader of New York City's violent Irish Mob. Eddie McGrath's life and crimes are traced through the tail-end of Prohibition, the gang warfare of the 1930s that propelled him into the position of an organized crime boss, the sordid years of underworld control over the bustling waterfront, McGrath's involvement in dozens of gangland murders, and finally the decline of the dock mobsters following a period of longshoremen rebellion in the 1950s.

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.