True Crime category: 7770 books
The Story of Dan Bright
Crime, Corruption and Injustice in the Crescent City
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Everybody knows New Orleans, but nobody knows this New Orleans. At sixteen years old, Dan Bright was the head of a New Orleans drug empire. As his operation grew, it was only a matter of time before he attracted the attention of the criminal justice system, which would stop at nothing―including framing...
Waterfront
Graft, corruption and violence - Australia's crime frontier from 1788 till now
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present.
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have...
The Iceman
The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland's biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders - including the gangland...
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Two days before Christmas 2015, veteran crime journalist Russell Findlay was the target of a vicious attack on his own doorstep. An unknown assailant, disguised as a postman, hurled sulphuric acid in his face before attempting to stab him with a steak knife. Despite suffering horrific burns, Findlay...
Death Comes Knocking
Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described...
Gangs
A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
From the bestselling author of GANGLAND BRITAIN and REEFER MEN.
Organised crime is one of Britain's biggest industries. The number of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, along with the levels of drug trafficking, people smuggling and money laundering, have all experienced phenomenal...
by Edward Jay Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
One of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years
The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn’t an accident. Theories behind the...
College Killers
School Shootings in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
COLLEGE KILLERS School Shootings in North America and Europe
Contents Introduction NORTH AMERICA : Pontiac’s Rebellion School Massacre; Bath School Disaster; University of Texas Tower Shootings; Ecole Polytechnique Massacre; Jonesboro Massacre; Thurston High School Massacre; Columbine...
Heist!
South Africa’s cash-in-transit epidemic uncovered
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
‘The last twenty-four hours before a heist take forever. You are ready. You can’t wait. You are already thinking about the money. It’s a kind of high that programs your mind. You are excited. You just want to get it done. That moment when there is no turning back, when it is about to go down...
by Peter De Loriol
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Murder and crime is caused by greed, need, jealousy, desperation, and insanity. London, the financial and capital city of England is no stranger to the excesses of its turbulent citizens—their past misdemeanors enrich the fabric of this great city. Here are some of the most infamous crimes committed...
Vanished
The Life and Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Nearly forty years after Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the face of the earth his disappearance still remains one of the biggest mysteries in crime history. At his zenith, Hoffa was reputed to be the most powerful figures in North America. The labor boss was never seen again after July 30, 1975 marking one...
De Haagse penoze
achter de schermen van een gesloten onderwereld
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Minder bekend dan de Amsterdamse onderwereld, maar minstens zo 'groot'en gewelddadig, is het criminele milieu rond Den Haag. Het grote verschil: hier zijn de hoofdrolspelers extreem mediaschuw. Geen journalist drong door in dit gesloten bolwerk. Tot nu toe... Haagse Penoze vertelt het levensverhaal...
Bandido Massacre
A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise...
BLOW
How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from...