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Reaktion Books Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of
Book SynopsisAt the heart of traditional song rest the concerns of ordinary people - the folk. And folk throughout the centuries have found themselves entangled with the law: abiding by it, breaking it, and being caught and punished by it. Who Killed Cock Robin? is an anthology of just such songs compiled by one of Britain's senior judges, Stephen Sedley, and most respected and best-loved folk singers, Martin Carthy. The songs collected here are drawn from manuscripts, broadsides and oral tradition. They are grouped according to the various categories of crime and punishment, from Poaching to The Gallows. Each section contains a historical introduction, and every song is presented with a melody, its lyrics and an illuminating commentary that explores its origins and sources. Together, they present a unique, sometimes comic, often tragic, and always colourful insight into the past, while preserving an important body of song for the pleasure and performance of future generations.Trade Review'At last, a simple, reader-friendly book on the cause-effect relationship between the CRIMES of the UPPER classes (documented in court and prison records, history books, the lives lost via law, scaffolds, transportation, et al) and the ‘crimes’ of the ‘lower’ classes (as documented in folk songs and ballads). The savagery of our toxic system of governance, the endless, pitiless theft of the property and rights of the public are kept in the public memory in the only unassailable form: the oral tradition. A trustworthy, authoritative, edifying and highly enjoyable read. Put it into school curricula.-Peggy Seeger, songwriter, performer and activist, author of First Time Ever 'A rich and rewarding journey through the law – and lore – of song and balladry. With such outstanding authors/compilers it’s no surprise whatsoever but their understanding, respect and regard for their source material mean that expertise and scholarship never swamp but only enhance and enlighten the reading experience. As well as opening my eyes to some previously unknown example of legal chicanery or barely believable repressive legislation and practice, every page made me want to sing these songs and ballads of the wronged and the ruthless, the cruel and cunning and the good, the bad - and the lovely. What a great delight of a book.-Willy Russell, playwright and composer, author of Educating Rita and Blood Brothers
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State House Press I'm Frank Hamer: The Life of a Texas Peace
Book SynopsisBest known as the Texas Ranger captain who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde, Frank Hamer was designated by Walter Prescott Webb as “one of the three most fearless men in Western history.”This reprint of the 1968 edition gives the complete details of the Barrow-Parker rampage and is the only authentic account of the events leading to their deaths.With more than one hundred pages of illustrations, I'm Frank Hamer tells the amazing story of one of the greatest Texas Rangers of all time.
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Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies Down and Dirty Down South: Politics and the Art
Book SynopsisReturning from a vacation trip to Mexico, Little Rock attorney Roger Glasgow and his wife got the surprise of their lives when they were stopped at the border crossing. Guards ordered them out of their car and began to remove the back seat. What followed was a long nightmare of political intrigue and subterfuge that led all the way back to Arkansas and its capital city.While pursuing a race for district prosecutor in the 1970s, Glasgow had run afoul of the local political machine. The machine later decided to teach Glasgow a lesson even though he’d lost the race. Down and Dirty Down South is Glasgow’s story of how he attempted to clear his name and also track down the people who had set him up for charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.
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University of Nevada Press Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre
Book SynopsisCharcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal burners were slain and six more were wounded, while fourteen were taken prisoner by a sheriff’s posse. Through meticulous research on the event, relying on such primary sources as newspaper articles, author Silvio Manno provides the only comprehensive account of Eureka’s charcoal crisis and what came to be known as the Fish Creek Massa-cre. This is a well-documented narrative history of an important instance of class and ethnic conflict in the West. Readers interested in Nevada history, Italian American history, frontier trade unionism, and mining in the West will find this book a unique examination of an incident that occurred almost a century and a half ago and that has, until now, been largely over-looked.Trade Review“This is an extremely significant topic covered with passion and relying on excellent research. Silvio Manno has crafted a portrait of the immigration story by revealing a tragic episode that deserves to be remembered and understood.” -- Ronald M. James, author of A Short History of Virginia City“The book contributes our clearest account yet of this important episode in Nevada history, in which mining history, immigration and social history, political economy, and frontier violence are all intertwined. It also helps shed more light on the history of Eureka, which has been understudied in Nevada historiography.” -- Eric Nystrom, author of Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America
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Hardpress Publishing A Full Report of the Case of Mastin V Escott Clerk for Refusing to Bury an Infant Baptized by a Wesleyan Minister Containing All the Arguments on Herbert Jenner in the Arches Court of C 1
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Hardpress Publishing Celebrated Crimes 1
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HardPress Publishing York Castle in the Nineteenth Century
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Hardpress Publishing Gimcrackiana Or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners Ten Years Ago Signed Geoffrey Gimcrack 1
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Principal de Los Libros Thomas Quick. Cómo Se Hace Un Asesino En Serie
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Almuzara Honor
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El imperio del dolor: La historia secreta de la
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Editorial Anagrama V13
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Anagrama Al Capone
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Anagrama Mafia Export
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Crimen.org
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Edaf Antillas Brigada Criminal
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Blume Che Guevara: El Espíritu de la Revolución
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infanticide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime
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Taylor & Francis Ltd StatePrivate Networks and Intelligence Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homicide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Wildlife Trafficking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cyberspace Data Analytics and Policing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime Gender and Power in Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Agencies Technology and Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge.At the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparativTable of ContentsThe Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler 1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 Thomas Wolf 2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB’s Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s Evgenia Lezina 3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War Andreas Lutsch 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967–1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? Jens Wegener 5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s Rüdiger Bergien 6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service’s Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil Marcelo Vianna 7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil’s Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) Debora Gerstenberger 8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? Egemen Bezci 9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland Franciszek Dabrowski 10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? Christopher Kirchberg 11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil Samantha Viz Quadrat 12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany Marcel Schmeer Conclusion Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Corporate Wrongdoing on Film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Analysis in the Digital Age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in
Book SynopsisOriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s. Concentrating on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining the counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with the official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, this book offers an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and capitalist America through the prism of KGB operations against the US and Canada. Written from a hidden perspective of KGB operations from 1953 to the end of the 1980s, this book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations and the active measures of the KGB, but also various prTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rise and Fall of the KGB in Soviet Ukraine after Stalin; Part I: Creating Models for the Special KGB Operations against the USA and Canada after WWII; Chapter 1: Legacy of the World War II: Ukrainian Nationalists in Diaspora and the Spy Schools in West Germany; Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-Immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and "Zionist Jews"; Chapter 3: Communists and the Political Left in Capitalist America: A Case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky; Chapter 4: Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges; Part II: The KGB vs. Politicians and Tourists from "Capitalist America"; Chapter 5: "Shpionomania," or the American Spies Hysteria in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 6: The US Exhibitions and Technological/Industrial Espionage; Chapter 7: "Using the American Officials": From the KGB-CIA Collaboration to the Meddling in the US Politics; Part III: The KGB of Soviet Ukraine in the Cultural Cold War against Capitalist America; Chapter 8: KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 9: "American Influences" in Forbidden Literature, Non-Traditional Religions, Music, Video and Sex; Epilogue: "Learning from the Main Adversary" and Returning to the Soviet Anti-American and Anti-Fascist Scenario; Selected Bibliography
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Cambridge University Press The Future of the Criminology of Place
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ruby Ridge
Book Synopsis“The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print.” — Washington TimesFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, here is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a nation increasingly attuned to the dangers of unchecked federal power.On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver''s family, government insiders, and others, Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to t
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fire Lover
Book SynopsisOn an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California''s foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ...From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed,nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.
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HarperCollins The Last Gangster
Book SynopsisIt''s over. You''d have to be Ray Charles not to see it. —former New Jersey capo Ron Previte, on the mob today As a cop, Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story—the story of the last days of the Philadelphia Mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. For 35 years Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six-foot, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking and prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City. In his own words, Every day was a different felony. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like Skinny Joe Merlino, who seemed increasingly spoiled, cocky, and careless. Convinced that the honor of the business was gone, he became the FBI''s secret weapon in an intense and hi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Paddy Whacked
Book SynopsisHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike King Mike McDonald, Chicago''s subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York''s most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James Whitey Bulger, the ruthless and untouchable Southie legend. Stretching from the earliest New York and New Orleans street wars through decades of bootlegging scams, union strikes, gang wars, and FBI investigations, Paddy Whacked is a riveting tour de force that restores the Irish American gangster to his rightful preeminent place in our criminal history -- and penetrates to the heart of the American experience.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Serpico
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Death in Belmont
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Fence
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc For the Thrill of It
Book SynopsisIt was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state''s attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.Set against the backdrop of the 1920s—a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy—For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.
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HarperCollins Die My Love
Book SynopsisThe day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, well-liked college professor Fred Jablin. That morning, a neighbor discovered his body lying in a pool of blood in the driveway of Jablin''s Virginia home. Police immediately turned their attentions to the victim''s ex-wife, Piper, a petite, pretty Texas lawyer who had lost a bitter custody battle and would do anything to get her kids back. But Piper was in Houston, one thousand miles away, at the time of the slaying and couldn''t possibly have been the killer . . . could she?So began an investigation into one of the most bizarre cases Virginia and Texas law enforcement agencies had ever encountered: a twisted conspiracy of lies, rage, paranoia, manipulation, and savage murder that would ensnare an entire family—including two lethally close look-alike sisters—and reveal the shocking depravities possible when a dangerously disordered mind slips into madness.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beyond the Body Farm
Book SynopsisA pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world''s first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research has revolutionized forensic science, but during a career that has spanned half a century, Bass and his work have ranged far beyond the gates of the Body Farm.In this riveting book, the renowned bone sleuth explores the rise of modern forensic science and takes readers deep into the real world of crime scene investigation. Beyond the Body Farm is an extraordinary journey through some of the most fascinating investigations of Dr. Bass''s career—and a remarkable look at the high-tech science used to crack the most perplexing cases.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc For the Presidents Eyes Only Secret Intelligence
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Gaspipe
Book SynopsisThe boss of New York''s infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony Gaspipe Casso''s life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for earning—concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York—fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally caught up with him in 1994, Casso became the thing he hated most—an informer.From his blood feud with John Gotti to his dealings with the Mafia cops, decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, to the Windows case, which marked the beginning of the end for the New York Mob, Gaspipe is Anthony Casso''s shocking story—a roller-coaster ride into an exclusive netherworld that reveals the true inner workings of the Mafia, from its inception to the present time.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Gardner Heist
Book Synopsis?Boser cracks the cold case of the art world?s greatest unsolved mystery.??Vanity FairOne museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting story of the 1990 Gardner Museum robbery, the largest unsolved art theft in history. Perfect for fans of the Netflix series This is a Robbery: The World''s Biggest Art Heist!Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft one of the nation?s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to pick up where he left off. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith?s unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock ?n? roll art thief and a golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.Trade Review"Boser has produced a captivating portrait of the world's biggest unsolved art theft." -- Wall Street Journal "A vivid portrait of the high-stakes world of art crime." -- Associated Press "Ulrich Boser presents his solution to the [Gardner] mystery." -- Washington Post "Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." -- Vanity Fair "In The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces." -- Boston Globe "The book is a thrill." -- The Guardian "Now we read this. It looks like the largest theft since the Devil Rays took what should have been the Red Sox's 2008 American League championship. I don't know if those paintings ended up on eBay, but I do know they're not on my walls." -- Senator John Kerry "Boser's rousing account of his years spent collecting clues large and small is entertaining enough to make readers almost forget that, after 18 years, the paintings have still not been found." -- Publishers Weekly "Boser poetically contrasts the burning, almost unnatural desire art lovers feel for paintings with the cold reality that art theft is one of the easiest and most lucrative types of crime." -- Kirkus Reviews "Artfully done... Grade: A Minus." -- Boston Herald "Boser's book on it has the feel of a speedy ride down a mountain road spiked with hairpin turns. -- Christian Science Monitor
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Butcher
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Girl in the Cellar
Book SynopsisEight years of darknessOn March 2, 1998, while on her way to school, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was abducted. More than eight years later, on August 23, 2006, she escaped with a story that shocked and horrified the entire world. She spent the most delicate years of her life hidden in a cellar underneath an ordinary Austrian suburban home. How was she able to survive? What sort of woman had emerged? What kind of man was Wolfgang Priklopil, her abductor—and what demands had he made of her?Journalists Allan Hall and Michael Leidig covered Natascha''s story from the beginning. The result of extraordinary investigative reporting, Girl in the Cellar gets to the heart of this very tragic case to reveal a truth no one would have imagined.
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