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Random House USA Inc Killers of the Flower Moon
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Random House USA Inc The Wager
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martialthat reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only thecaptain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture, Kirkus Reviews?Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history?and imperialism?with gusto.? ?Time Atour de force of narrative nonfiction.? ?The Wall Street JournalOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty?s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as ?the prize of all the oceans,? it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversingnearly 3,000miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story.The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes ? they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death?for whomever the court found guilty could hang.The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann?s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O?Brian, his portrayal of the castaways? desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller.As always with Grann?s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
£25.50
Random House USA Inc London Falling
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£23.09
W. W. Norton & Company Outrage The Five Reasons Why O J Simpson Got Away
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W. W. Norton & Company The Collapse of Barings
Book SynopsisA true tale chronicling the diasatrous collision of old money and raw greed.
£20.00
Penguin Publishing Group A Beautiful Child
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£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc 3096 Days in Captivity
Book SynopsisOn March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was-and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.
£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc The Girl in the Leaves
Book SynopsisThe shocking true crime story of one of the most bizarre mass murders ever recorded—and the girl who escaped with her life.In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina’s two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the area, yet despite an extensive search, no signs of the missing people were discovered. On the fourth day of the search, evidence trickled in about neighborhood “weirdo” Matthew Hoffman. A police SWAT team raided his home and found an extremely disturbing sight: every square inch of the place was filled with leaves and a terrified Sarah Maynard was bound up in the middle of it like some sort of perverted autumn tableau. But there was no trace of the others. Then came Hoffman’s confession to an unspeakable crime that went beyond murder and defied all reason. His tale of evil would make Sarah’s survival and rescue all the more astonishing—a compelling tribute to a young girl’s resilience and courage and to her fierce determination to reclaim her life in the wake of unimaginable trauma.Trade ReviewPraise for Robert Scott“Compelling and shocking…a ground-breaking book.”—Robert K. Tanenbaum “Fascinating and fresh…a fast-paced, informative read.”—Sue Russell “Skillfully written...[Scott] has the ability to tell a true story with compassion and taste while grabbing and keeping the reader's attention.”—ReviewingTheEvidence.com “An excellent true crime writer.”—True Crime Book Reviews
£10.44
Penguin Putnam Inc American Murder Houses
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Random House Publishing Group Remote Viewers
Book SynopsisRemote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon''s attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or 'remote viewers,' were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For twenty years, the government selected civilian and military personnel for psychic ability, trained them, and put them to work, full-time, at taxpayers'' expense, against real intelligence targets. The results were so astonishing that the program soon involved more than a dozen separate agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Secret Service, the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the US Customs Service, the US Special Forces Command, and at least one Pentagon drug-interaction task force. Most of this material is still officially classified. After three years of research, with ac
£20.70
Little, Brown & Company Killer Spy Inside Story of the FBIs Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames Americas Deadliest Spy
Book SynopsisIn the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames systematically and cold bloodedly sent a dozen of the US''s best agents to their death, betraying them to the Soviets for more than two million dollars. This is the story of how he was finally caught.
£15.19
Penguin Publishing Group The I5 Killer Revised Edition
Book SynopsisThe terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers to play in the NFL, and chosen by Playgirl as a centerfold candidate. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had his pick of willing sexual prospects. But Randall Woodfield wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California, Oregon, and Washington, leaving a trail of victims along the way. As the list of his victims grew to a total of at least 44, the police faced the awesome challenge of catching and convicting a suspect who seemed too handsome and appealing to have committed such ugly crimes—crimes that filled every woman within his striking range with feat and horror....Trade ReviewPraise for Ann Rule“Rule has an instinct for suspense, knowing just what information to leak to the reader and when.”—The Washington Post Book World“A raw docudrama of almost unbelievable intensity.”—Booklist“A harrowing pathological portrait, a nearly unthinkable triple-murder plot, a hold-your-breath police procedural and a tale of dedication and compassion all superbly combined to produce the most riveting true-crime account since In Cold Blood.”—Kirkus Reviews“Excellent....One of the most detailed studies of a sociopath to dignify the true-crime circuit.”—The San Francisco Chronicle“A fascinating and grisly story...un-putdownable.”—New York Daily News“A good read....Rule springs surprises and revelations with a novelist’s skill.”—Seattle Times
£9.39
Penguin Publishing Group Small Sacrifices A True Story Of Passion And
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a shocking true crime account of the destructive forces that drove a beautiful young mother to murder.“Somebody just shot my kids!” Diane Downs brought her car to a halt in front of a Springfield, Oregon, hospital, her three gravely wounded children beside her. Thus begins the tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community. As police searched for the “shaggy-haired stranger” Diane accused of shooting 8-year-old Christie, 7-year-old Cheryl, and 3-year-old Danny, a suspicion grew that was even more horrifying than the crime itself: Did Diane shoot her own children? Haunted by this question, a dedicated district attorney searched for the answer and uncovered a chronology of incest, psychological wounding, desperate affairs, and surrogate motherhood.Ann Rule's gripping, powerful, and ultimately terrifying true story of passion and murder will hold you in thrall as it plumbs the unimagined depths of darkness concealed within a human being.
£8.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Donnie Brasco by Joseph Pistone
Book SynopsisPosing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, connected guys, captains and godfathers.Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.
£9.49
Ground Proof Forensic Institute Mass Casualty
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£17.17
Vintage Espanol Amando a Pablo odiando a Escobar Loving Pablo
Book Synopsis¡Ahora en la gran pantalla!En julio de 2006 un avión de la DEA sacó a Virginia Vallejo de Colombia. Su vida estaba en peligro por haberse convertido en el testigo clave de los dos procesos criminales más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en su país: el asesinato de un candidato presidencial y el holocausto del Palacio de Justicia.Veinticinco años antes, Virginia Vallejo era la presentadora de televisión más importante de Colombia y la belleza profesional que aparecía en las portadas de las principales revistas. Cortejada por multimillonarios tradicionales, conoció en 1982 a Pablo Escobar, un misterioso político de treinta y tres años que en realidad manejaba los hilos de un mundo de riqueza inigualable en el que gran parte del incesante flujo de dinero procedente del tráfico de cocaína se canalizaba a proyectos de caridad y a las campañas
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Alfred A. Knopf The Art Thief
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T. Atencio & R. Gentillalli The Murder of Marilyn Monroe Her Lips Were Sealed Until Now
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£12.01
Benny G Richards Jr. Campfire Confessions
£16.59
Kristine Ohkubo Nickname Flower of Evil 21628124032151712399247461239833457
Book SynopsisWhen Japan transitioned from 264 years of rule under the military-led Tokugawa Shogunate to the restoration of imperial power during the Meiji era, it embarked on a path of rapid modernization. This modernization came at an enormous cost, a cost that was borne primarily by the already repressed members of Japan's society – the impoverished rural women, the female factory laborers, and the sex industry workers.Born during the latter part of the Meiji era, a former geisha and prostitute, Abe Sada was elevated to celebrity status after committing the most heinous crime in 20th century Japan. After being convicted and imprisoned for strangling and emasculating her lover with a kitchen knife, she became the subject of countless articles, books, and movies. Although she remains very famous in Japan, not much is known about her life outside of Japan except for what was depicted in the sexploitation film In the Realm of the Senses. Of the countless works
£12.64
Pedialaw Publishing DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes
£22.49
Kim Hurley Andrews When the Leaves Began to Unfold
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£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Yorkshire Ripper The InDepth Study of a Mass Killer and his Methods
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Random House USA Inc We Own This City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American cityNOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS“A work of journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police unit but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster that is the American drug war.”—David Simon Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicide
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Agent Sonya
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most intrepid spies.“[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.”—The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews, Library JournalIn 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb.This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named “Sonya.” Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI—and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century—between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy—and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.With unparalleled access to Sonya’s diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.
£16.20
Penguin Books Ltd American Kompromat
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Updated with a new afterword from the author* Kompromat n.—Russian for compromising information This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB; thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations; and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine. Among them, the book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?
£15.30
Random House USA Inc The Spider
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Illegals
£25.60
Penguin Random House Group Into the Lions Mouth
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iUniverse Breaking the Mob The Gripping True Story of a Dedicated Cop Who Led the Fight that Put an Entire Mafia Family out of Business
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iUniverse Wasted The Preppie Murder
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iUniverse Righteous Carnage The List Murders in Westfield French version Reality Show
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iUniverse Sangrienta Redencin The List Murders in Westfield Spanish version
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iUniverse Why The Serial Killer in America
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iUniverse fraudabccom Your ABC Guide to Corporate Fraud Management and Investigation Protocol
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iUniverse Dont Just Sit There A True Account of a Frightening Experience and a SelfHelp Book for Women
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iUniverse The Deadly Groom An OhioArkansas True Crime Saga
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iUniverse The Woodchipper Murder
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iUniverse The Personals Predator
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iUniverse Love Is Blind and Dangerous The Psychopathic Stalker
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iUniverse Death House The True Story of an American Community Hospital and Its Physicians Who Murder for Money A True Story of an American Community Hospital and Its Physicians Who Murder for Money
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iUniverse Was It Murder Surprising Facts About 22 Famous Deaths
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iUniverse The Bogeyman Stalking and Its Aftermath
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iUniverse The Piggy Bank Murder
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iUniverse Murder at Fort Huachuca
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iUniverse One Big Fib The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada
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