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The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Guzman is among the world's ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine's 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of professional killers, and a network of informants that reaches into the highest levels of government, catching Guzman was considered impossible – until now. Newly isolated by infighting...
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Dinero, drogas y cárteles: eso es lo que el novato agente del FBI esperaba tener cuando lo enviaron al pueblo fronterizo de Laredo; pero en cambio, se encontró con una tarea sedentaria, redactando reportes de inteligencia acerca de la guerra contra el narcotráfico. Hasta que, un día, le piden a Lawson que chequee una pista anónima: un caballo que se vendió en una subasta en Oklahoma por un precio mucho más elevado de lo usual, y el comprador...
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Tell no-one anything. Don't ask questions. Be invisible.This was the mantra of mafia associate John Kruger.Born into a family of criminals, John Kruger began his life of crime while still in primary school. Bagman of the Brothel follows his tumultuous upbringing in southern Sydney and into adulthood, where he found himself employed by a mafia organisation during the 1980s.Set against a background of police corruption, seedy characters, and violence,...
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Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the...
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WHO REALLY KILLED "CRAZY JOE" GALLO? AT LAST, THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD. AND IT WASN'T FRANK "THE IRISHMAN" SHEERAN AS HE CLAIMED.
This is the shocking and brutal story of Carmine DiBiase—aka Sonny Pinto—the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI's Most Wanted list to Death Row—only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again . . . among those who died by his gun was Joey...
This is the shocking and brutal story of Carmine DiBiase—aka Sonny Pinto—the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI's Most Wanted list to Death Row—only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again . . . among those who died by his gun was Joey...
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These short stories are actual true events, in which I was personally involved. They occurred between 1982 and 1995 while I was serving as a Police Officer, Detective in the Bomb and Arson Unit, Homicide Unit, the Burglary and Auto theft Units with KCPD. These incidents are taken from my memory of the events as they took place. They are not in any way, meant to hurt or cause discredit to anyone or any place described or resembled in these stories....
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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts,...
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In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to...
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Down the street or shopping, you always see the ones who are trying to be the macho man. They walk toward you, so you have to sidestep and make way for them. I always wonder how tough he would be if someone did not move and pounded the piss out of them. I put my theory to work in the mall parking lot. I am 5'5" and macho man a 6 foot plus shoved into me when I did not move. I beat the crap out of him and left him crying like a baby. All you people...
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Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster, but he, never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50-years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family. Balls is, written by Scott Dietche and Ken Sanz.
12) Carried
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Carried is a true crime story of a divorced mother's fight to save herself and her three children from a knife-wielding fifteen-year-old intruder in her home, and her battle in the courtroom to keep their attacker from terrorizing her family again. Carried is true and fully and completely describes a mother's worst nightmare and the many blessings that followed the horrible attack on April 18, 1996.
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EL SACAMANTECAS VITORIANO, EL HOMBRE LOBO DE ALLARIZ (GALICIA), LOS SACAMANTECAS ANDALUCES (GRANADA, MÁLAGA, LAS HURDES...), LA VAMPIRA DEL RAVAL (BARCELONA), EL SACAMANTECAS DE SAN SEBASTIÁN...
El Sacamantecas, un personaje a caballo entre la realidad y el mito, una figura mítica que comenzó con Manuel Blanco Romasanta en Galicia a mediados del siglo XIX (el famoso hombre lobo u "ome do unto"). Siguió con el caso de Vitoria y continuó con otros...
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Married to a Kingpin is about a young girl who met a man whom she falls in love with. She's been with him for almost two years. The first week she was with him, she realized he was a kingpin. He bought her and her family everything. They drove Jaguars and a new Blazer truck. He bought her new clothes, jewelry, and furs. He even took her off the ho stroll. What she didn't know was that he was married, and his wife.
15) Up Like a Bird
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Brendan Hughes' gritty, fast-paced memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Irish Republican Army in the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes reveals how his secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in 1973 and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation's armed resistance to British rule. For the first time, he also tells the inside story of how...
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Ming presents his life through the eyes of Mike Lee, just coming home from prison and trying to make a life for himself. The obstacles Mike faces and his handling of them dictates the course of his life as he tries to better himself and find a place in this world. While trying to get his life together, a series of events leads Mike down a familiar path. This Book is not to Glorify one's past but, to share a person’s mistakes. As Mike deals with...
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Kim L. Smalls was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smalls as a baby boomer. She was educated by the public school system when prayer was a part of their protocol. She was baptized at the tender age of seven.
Kim later received her Bachelor of Science degree at New York Institute of Technology in 1979 and majored in Sociology. She was a Case Manager by profession, lived the life of parties, drugs, tobacco and alcohol which included the riotous...
18) No Hard Feelings
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Back In The Hey Days Of The Source Magazine Mike McNeill Was A Recording Artist That Was Signed To Ray Benzino's Surrender Records. Mike Had One Foot In The Music Industry As A Part Of A Rap Group Calle The Wiseguys Doing Music With Elite Artist Such As Wyclef, Scarface, 32, An Spice 1 An A List Of Top Producers All While Having His Other Foot Deep Into The Drug Selling An Gang ViolenceOf The 90'S An Early 2000'S. As Wiseguys Reigned As The Biggest...
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Hay muchas personas que han manifestado su incredulidad con respecto al hecho de que todo este libro sea en sí, la narración de un terrorista, y tienen dudas sobre la veracidad de la historia. Me gustaría responderles a todos ellos con ese adagio tan conocido de que: "A veces, la realidad supera a la ficción " Lo que tenemos que entender aquí es que, la mayoría de los terroristas en el mundo son jóvenes engañados; sus mentes han sido manipuladas,...
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An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth behind the terrifying violence of his notorious twin brothers, Ronnie and Reggie. In his dying days, reflecting on how the Kray name destroyed his life, Charlie reveals what he really thought about the twins -...
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