True crime Books
Independently Published Experiences from the Cloning Center: Volume 1: April 5th 2012 to May 24th 2012
£8.22
Independently Published The London Underground Killer: The Life of Serial Killer Kieran Kelly
£11.52
Independently Published True Crime Storytime Volume 1: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories to Keep You Up All Night
£12.39
Independently Published East Lothian Murder Chronicles
£7.95
Independently Published I Love You, I Love You Not
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£13.83
Independently Published The true crimes of Australia: True crime collection
£13.26
Permuted Press Dark Tide
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£20.90
Post Hill Press MasterMind
£16.14
Post Hill Press Dead in the Water
£15.29
£22.52
Camp Street Press The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
£20.00
Camp Street Press The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
£27.54
HarperCollins Publishers White Terror
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£16.14
Penguin Publishing Group The Best Minds
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£13.05
Penguin Publishing Group The Shooter at Midnight
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£15.29
Hachette Books Not a Gentlemans Work
Book SynopsisThe Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the ''mulatto'' steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship''s axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings... except the killer. After a harrowing voyage back to port for the survivors, the killer among them, it didn''t take long for prosecutors to charge, and a Boston jury to convict, the first mate, a naturalized American of mixed blood from St. Kitts. But another man on board, the passenger, a twenty-year-old Harvard quitter from a proper Boston family,
£21.84
Hachette Books Retail Gangster The Insane RealLife Story of
Book SynopsisA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as 'Crazy Eddie,' whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, 'Crazy Eddie' as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way 'Crazy Eddie! His prices are insaaaaane!' does. The journalist Herb Greenberg called his death the 'end of an era' and that couldn't be more true. What's insane is that his story has never been told.Before Enron, before Madoff, before The Wolf of Wall Street, Eddie Antar's corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the blood stream of everyone's daily life in the 1970s
£22.50
Random House USA Inc The Fat Mexican
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 national bestselling author of Befriend and Betray, an intimate exposé of a criminal empire and the massacre that nearly started a global biker war.Having once infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to reveal the untold story of the Hells Angels’ fiercest rivals.Grounded in the crucible of the little understood Shedden massacre of 2006 and one unlikely prospect’s descent into the biker lifestyle, The Fat Mexican exposes the violent criminal history of the Bandidos motorcycle club, the Hells Angels’ fiercest competition: their violent beginnings, the terror their aggressive expansion caused rivals and innocents alike, and the internal politics and rivalries that drive them to this day.
£15.72
Penguin Random House Usa The Wager
£15.00
ABC-CLIO This Is the Zodiac Speaking
Book SynopsisThe facts of the case and the fragmentary glimpses of the Zodiac's psychodynamics that came through his letters forced the authors, reluctantly, to draw a conclusion that is sure to be controversial-namely, that the Zodiac suffered from multiple personality disorder.Trade ReviewAnyone who is interested in true crime or American history needs to read this book. It is a tremendous and well carried out effort by the authors and also has the power to transport the reader back in time to a place in history where peace and tranquility were shaken to the core by a man in a mask who has yet to meet his date with Lady Justice. This book reminds us all about the frailty of human life and our beliefs about safety and secruity and about how simply these can be taken away from us by a stranger. * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction In the Beginning Heyday of Murder Murder, Fear, and Uncertainty Taunting Slipping Away Killing In Silence? The Return Legends, Myths, and Facts Portrait of a Killer What Will We Ever Know? Appendixes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Undisclosed Files of the Police Cases from the
Book SynopsisFrom the establishment of New York''s police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this visual history of New York City is a peek behind the police tape at more than 150 years of crime. This 320-page chronological tour covers events that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings. They include headline-grabbing episodes such as architect Stanford White''s shooting at Madison Square Garden, the Pierre Hotel Robbery of 1972, the bombing of Wall Street in 1920, the 1928 hit on mobster Arnold Rothstein at the Park Sheraton Hotel, and Kitty Genovese''s 1964 stabbing, which was witnessed by a dozen bystanders who did not call the police. Lesser-known crimes that changed the way the NYPD pursued criminals are also profiled. Perfect for crime buffs, urban historians, and fans of photography and photojournalism, this riveting collection details New York''s
£31.50
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Case Files of the NYPD
Book SynopsisFrom atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York''s police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this chronological visual history is an insider''s look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings, including: Architect Stanford White''s fatal shooting at Madison Square Garden over his deflowering of a teenage chorus girl. The anarchist bombing of Wall Street in 1920, which killed 39 people and injured hundreds more with flying shrapnel. Kitty Genovese''s 1964 senseless stabbing, famously witnessed by dozen of bystanders who did not intervene. Robert Chambers, the handsome, wealthy ex-Choate student, who murdered Jennifer Levin in Central Park, called The Preppy Murder Case.Son of Sam, a serial killer who eluded police for months while terrorizing the city, was finally apprehended through a simple p
£19.00
Little, Brown Spark Tree Thieves
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£18.99
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Hoax A History of Deception
Book SynopsisAn entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter NÃaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is rediscovered; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln''s ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson''s ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.
£22.50
Little, Brown & Company Lost Son An American Family Trapped Inside the
Book SynopsisA young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.
£22.50
Hodder & Stoughton Sara Payne A Mothers Story
Book SynopsisWho can forget the image of Sarah Payne? In this haunting memoir, her mother Sara describes the terrible days surrounding the abduction and murder of her daughter by paeodophile, Roy Whiting. A heartrending personal account of every family's worst nightmare.Trade ReviewI would challenge anyone to read it and not cry, many times. * The Sunday Times *I would challenge anyone to read it and not cry, many times. * Sunday Times *. . . this is the true value of Sara's book . . ., it illustrates the sheer mess murder can make of daily life. * Guardian *
£10.99
Hodder & Stoughton Gang Land
Book SynopsisTony Thompson, bestselling author of GANGS, returns to the killing streets and takes us to the heart of UK gang culture.Trade ReviewShocking . . . Fascinating and slightly scary reading * Sun *An extraordinary book * Donal MacIntyre, BBC Radio 5 Live *Praise for GANGS * : *Fascinating ... Thompson has a keen eye for the whimsical side of orchestrated illegality * Observer *In the best tradition of the crime beat reporter, Thompson goes down the mean streets of the most insalubrious parts of Britain so we don't have to. * Word magazine *Detailed and thoroughly riveting ... always grimly honest and provides an intensely readable and vivid first-hand account of criminals' lives and the impact of their activities on society * Herald *
£10.99
Hodder & Stoughton After Evil
Book SynopsisCriminologist Jane Carter Woodrow has spent many years working with both offenders and victims of violent crime, but it wasn't until she met Neil, whose mother was one of the Yorkshire Ripper's first victims, that she realised quite how devastating the aftermath of a murder can be...Trade ReviewIf you read any book this year, you must read this one. * Alma Cullen, Scriptwriter, TV's Inspector Morse *Unsparing, shocking, beautifully told story of a young boy who woke up to a nightmare. * Norman Hull, AVP Films *Insightful, revealing and detailed, AFTER EVIL is a warm and human portrait of the collateral damage inflicted on a whole family hit by a serial killer. And it is ultimately a moving story of survival and how, against all odds, it is possible to go beyond tragedy. * Andrea Michell, Bravura Films *
£12.34
Little, Brown Book Group Red River Girl A Journey into the Dark Heart of
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the Crime Writers'' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-FictionA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, the detective determined to find her killer and a country''s hidden secretsOn 17 August 2014, the body of fifteen-year old Indigenous runaway Tina Fontaine was found weighted down in the Red River in the Canadian city of Winnipeg. The loss of Tina was a tragedy for her family and for the Indigenous community. But it also exposed a national scandal: Indigenous women are vastly more likely than other Canadians to be assaulted and killed. Over the past few decades, hundreds had been murdered - or simply gone missing. Many of these cases have never been solved.Tina''s Fontaine''s death caused an outcry across Canada. The police investigation and trial that followed sparked a widespread debate on the treatment of Indigenous women, while the movement protesting those missing and murdered became an internatTrade ReviewWith exacting detail, BBC reporter Joanna Jolly recounts Tina's sometimes tragic life story, her shocking death, the complex police investigation and the detective determined to find her killer. If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to pre-order this now. -- Sarra Manning * Red Magazine *Written with the urgency of a thriller, this book uses the tragic death of one girl to expose scandalous levels of violence against Canada's indigenous female population. A shocking story of invisibility, neglect and moral failure on the part of one of the world's most advanced democracies. * Joan Smith, bestselling author of Misogynies *Jolly's gripping, moving and timely book is a true crime classic. In illuminating the story of a single tragic murder, Jolly shines a much needed light on the shocking disappearance and murder of indigenous women across North America. A vital, urgent and humane work. * Melanie McGrath, author of The Long Exile *Joanna Jolly recreates Tina's life and the investigation into her death. It starkly assesses the lack of protection and child services for indigenous children and reveals the sexual exploitation of a community in a country that prides itself on its liberal and supportive values -- Francesca Brown * Stylist *This is a really important book to read . . . Jolly's skill is to show that this is a deeply embedded problem . . . But she presents all this detailed information in a way to keep you reading, because she is fully aware behind all the problems there are people - people who are important and deserve considerably more. All intelligent adults should read this book to become aware of the depth of the problem and the need to do more. This might be concentrating on Canada, but similar levels of violence and abuse can develop in communities all over the world if regular and respectful communities are allowed to collapse. -- Hilary White * NB Magazine *
£18.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Breaking and Entering
Book SynopsisThis taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker—a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible—not just coding, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C-suite. Alie
£15.19
Random House USA Inc The Devil in the White City
Book Synopsis#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. “As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco ChronicleCombining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures,
£15.26
Penguin Publishing Group The Girl in Alfred Hitchocks Shower
Book SynopsisMarli Renfro was Janet Leigh''s body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Justice for Bonnie
Book SynopsisThe shocking true crime story of an Alaskan college student's murder and her mother's relentless crusade for the truth.
£11.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Doctor Dealer
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£16.19
Penguin Random House Group The Sinners All Bow
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£22.94
Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Stellenbosch Murder Town
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£999.99
Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Hunting With The Hawks
Book SynopsisThe Hawks, South Africa's elite crime-fighting force, have put scores of our worst criminals behind bars. In this book, investigative journalist Graham Coetzer offers us a rare glimpse into the secretive world of this top police unit.
£16.14
Random House USA Inc In Cold Blood
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER â? The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)â??and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
£15.30
Hachette Australia The Fatalist
Book SynopsisAS SEEN ON AUSTRALIAN STORYShortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards Best True Crime 2018Shortlisted for The Danger Prize (writing about Sydney and crime) 2018''I first met Lindsey Rose playing pool at The Burwood Hotel in 1988. I was two years out of high school. He''d already committed three murders. None of us knew.''We knew he was a brothel owner, we knew not to get on his wrong side, but we knew nothing of his lives past: fitter and turner, ambulance officer, private investigator, car thief, hijacker, arsonist, mercenary, drug dealer. Murderer. ''I drank at The Burwood on and off for six years. The last time I saw Lindsey as a free man was in early 1994 when he came to a poker game at my home. By then he''d committed two more murders - on Valentine''s Day 1994 - and that made five.''What factors are at play in the creation of a cold-blooded killer? How can a relaxed, sociable, loving man with a strong work ethic keep the trutTrade ReviewReview * Herald Sun *His account is informed by the science of criminal psychology, court documents and transcripts, and many interviews with Rose in Goulburn prison, and is a powerful story. * Kiama Independent *The author has to weigh bleak facts and probabilities against Rose's possibly sanitised version of his descent into killing for profit and revenge. * Hobart Mercury *Campbell McConachie's first book is an interesting blend of true-crime investigative reporting and biography of one of Australia's most infamous killers * Law Society Journal *
£14.24
Hachette Australia Bumper
Book SynopsisThe sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia''s history.Frank ''Bumper'' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper''s beat from 1938 to 1976 was the most lawless in the land - the mean streets of Kings Cross and inner Sydney. His adversaries were such notorious criminals as Abe Saffron, Lennie McPherson, Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh and their gangs as well as the hooligans, sly groggers, SP bookies, pimps and spivs.Criminals knew just where they stood: he would catch them, he would hurt them, and then he would lock them away. He was a legendary Rugby League player for Newtown, and represented Australia against England and New Zealand.Here''s Bumper Farrell in brutal, passionate and hilarious action . . . saving Ita Buttrose from a stalker; sparking a national scandaTrade Reviewchockers with anecdotes about his life and times on and off the field. - Peter FitzSimons fascinating ... [a] fine biography - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD a tough cop, in a tough place, in a tough time ... a fascinating but but flawed man ... Bumper Farrell made his own rules and enforced them. - HERALD SUN
£999.99
Hachette Australia The Suitcase Baby
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBTrue history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel.In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up on the shore of a small beach in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. What it contained - and why - would prove to be explosive.The murdered baby in the suitcase was one of many dead infants who were turning up in the harbour, on trains and elsewhere. These innocent victims were a devastating symptom of the clash between public morality, private passion and unrelenting poverty in a fast-growing metropolis.Police tracked down Sarah Boyd, the mother of the suitcase baby, and the complex story and subsequent murder trial of Sarah and her friend Jean Olliver became a media sensation. Sociologist Tanya Bretherton masterfully tells the engrossing and moving story of the crimTrade ReviewBretherton's unflinching fact-finding is what makes this book throb. * Australian Women's Weekly *A pacy tale recommended for history lovers. * Law Society Journal *
£13.29
Hachette Australia Roger Rogerson
Book SynopsisTHE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST CORRUPT COPTrade ReviewA gritty and unvarnished look inside the CIB ... shining a light on the entrenched culture of cover-up and corruption that has plagued NSW since the Rum Rebellion - Sydney Morning Herald[a] compelling and unapologetically unsympathetic account of Australia's most notorious former policeman - Weekend Australiana must read for fans of the true crime genre - NSW Police News
£12.34
Hachette Australia Zealot
Book Synopsis''a smart, daring and refreshing book'' - Weekend Australian ''deliciously sinister'' - Herald SunWhy would anyone join a cult? Maybe they''re unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they''re disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themselves the best possible chance of having sex with aliens.Whatever the reason, once people are in, it''s usually very difficult for them to leave. Cults have ways of making their followers do loopy, dangerous stuff to prove their loyalty, and in return they get a chance to feel secure within the cult''s embrace, with an added bonus of being utterly terrified of the outside world. From the tragic JONESTOWN Kool-Aid drinkers to the Australian cult THE FAMILY to the fiery Waco climax of THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS, this book is a wide-sweeTrade Reviewprose where every sentence is alive with individuality and intelligence. ... She has opened the creaking lid of the vampire's coffin and let in a good old blast of fresh daylight. * Weekend Australian *Written with a wonderfully irreverent sense of humour, the book has a serious aim, to instil irreverence in the reader, because, after all, an excess of reverence was what got many of these cult members into danger in the first place and then kept them there. * Daily Telegraph *
£14.24
Hachette Australia Southern Justice
Book SynopsisWho really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail.Daybreak, Sandy Bay, Hobart, 27 January 2009. A yacht, the Four Winds, is seen listing low to the waterline. When police board the sinking vessel there is no sign of the owners, Bob Chappell and Sue Neill-Fraser but, disturbingly, they find blood and a knife.Bob Chappell is never seen again. The blood spatter leads police to the conclusion that he has been murdered. Remarkably, Sue Neill-Fraser is arrested, found guilty and sentenced to 26 years'' imprisonment.May, 2016. Bestselling true-crime author Colin McLaren probes the notorious cold case that grips Australia. What he discovers shocks him. No body, no motive, no witnesses, a puddle of unexplained DNA liquid, undisclosed police documents, insubstantial scenarios - all lead him to believe Sue N
£17.99
Hachette Australia The Snapshot Killer
Book SynopsisChristopher Wilder was about as bad as they get. A serial killer and predator, he first came to the attention of police in Sydney when as a teenager in 1963 he was charged with rape. As a young adult he relocated to Florida, USA.Wilder plied his vile and deadly trade on two continents and did so undetected for more than twenty years. He was a chameleon and a predator with a modus operandi refined over the decades, luring young teenage girls with the promise of a career as a photographic model. His final flourish was a six-week spree of abduction, sexual assault and murder crisscrossing the USA and earning him the top spot on the FBI''s Ten Most Wanted list.Wilder could have been stopped a few times in his evil career - but he wasn''t. In addition to his many crimes in the US, he is now also a prime suspect for the infamous Wanda Beach murders - one of Australia''s most notorious unsolved crimes. The Snapshot Killer explores how a monster was able to hide in pl
£12.34
Hachette Australia Abe Saffron
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£15.19
Hachette Australia Betrayed
Book SynopsisA relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies' In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices would secretly pack two tonnes of hashish into the vehicle along the way. This shocking inside story chronicles Toddie and Beezie's wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, their arrest by Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, and all that the women faced in the aftermath. On the ground at the time, journalist Sandi Logan draws from his interviews with those attached to the events, and accounts in the women's diaries, to tell the incredible tale of an unlikely pair who became infamous and their
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Hachette Australia Saving Our Kids
Book SynopsisThe crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet''s most prolific and most naive users, and increasing numbers are finding themselves caught in an evil web of networked manipulators. Up to 70 percent of all new sexual exploitation content online is victim-produced, and much of it follows the same script. An adult abuser tricks a child into thinking they are a peer, the child produces the content themselves and the abuser then blackmails their victim - for money or for more content. It''s a script well-known to Detective Inspector Jon Rouse, who, for three decades, headed up Taskforce Argos, the expert arm of Queensland Police dedicated to hunting down online predators and rescuing children from abuse. In collaboration with Rouse, Madonna King tells the story of their investigations, from undercover cases to operations on a global scale, explor
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