A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, the "Black Godfather" c hronicles the 1970s New York City underworld and the most devastating urban crime wave in history. 1962 LEROY "NICKY" BARNES walks out of Green Haven State Prison. There are an estimated 153,000 heroin abusers in the United States. 1977 Two million junkies score $100 million worth of Barnes's smack a year. Sporting flashy suits, riding in a Citro n with a Maserati engine and s... View More...
Maverick FBI agents Gibbons and Tozzi, who first appeared in Bad Guys, now walk the edge between breaking the law and upholding it as they take on a b izarre murder case involving the Mafia and its Japanese equivalent, the Yak uza. View More...
A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A ward 'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men. ' New York Times Book Review The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of The ranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journa list who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the f emale Steve Jobs: a brilliant ... View More...
Patricia Cornwell uses the demanding methods of modern forensic investigati on to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. Naming the ki ller as the artist, Walter Sickert, Cornwell details the evidence for this conclusion and reveals the reaction from a senior police officer. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of its rituals, laws, and methods have never actually been revealed. John Dickie uses startling new research to expose the secrets of the Sicilian mafia, providing a fascinating account that is more violent, frightening, and darkly comic than anything conceiv... View More...
Presents a selection of more than ten thousand previously unpublished inter nal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, which reveal his innermost activi ties and how he tried to buy the American government. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne's brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. The pursuit of justice has become his passion - a passion that began during the trial of the man who murdered Dunne's daughter and who was sentenced to six and a half years and released in less than three. Dunne's account of that trial and its shocking result is one of the many classic e... View More...
Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenwort h, Kansas - a book that Kirkus Reviews called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice - and injustice - American-style. In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal re... View More...
In a study that will be of interest primarily to criminologists, Fox and Le vin (Mass Murder) categorize serial killers into three types: those who mur der for thrills, those who believe they have a mission (e.g., to rid the wo rld of sin) and those who kill for expediency or profit. The authors mainta in that most serial killers are not insane, although many are sociopathic a nd most are loners. The same qualities apparently hold true for mass murder ers, with the additional characteristic that they are often individuals who have lost all hope. The authors' conclusions are disheartening: desp... View More...
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Ex ecutioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing s quad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the H eart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: the ir mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their fathe r, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerat ional history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mika l, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the sh... View More...
Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac--America's most elusiv e serial killer. Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders , he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms th at baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog. After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Rob ert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity. With overwhelming evi dence he reveals ... View More...
A highly collectible first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wra pper. John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with The Innocent Man, a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels). The Innocent Man chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, how his case was (mis)handled and how an innocent man was sent to death row. Grisham's first work of nonfiction is shocking, disturbing, and enthralling--a must read for fiction and nonfiction fans. View More...
John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justi ce gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State o f Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unabl e to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a ... View More...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? John Grisham's first work of nonfiction: a t rue crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES "Both an American tragedy and [Grisham's] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true."--Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Micke y Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broke n by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far f rom Ron's home, a y... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough, it was Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public's imagination. Twice stolen, once by an IRA sympathiser and then by notorious gangster Martin Cahill, it risked being lo... View More...
This book tells the stories of crimes committed in the frenzies and frustra tions of love - violent and tragic endings to a love story that has gone wr ong. Passion, jealousy, revenge, and despair are the themes, and the eterna l triangle is often the pattern. Here are true-life tales of romance, myste ry and horror! View More...
A horrifying account of the husband-and-wife team of serial killers, Gerald and Charlene Gallego, who terrorized California with a string of vicious s ex-murders. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed i nvestigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (T he Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bi ll James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old my stery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their ... View More...
