According to the FBI, morebank and armored-car robbers have come out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, thanany other one-square-mile area in the world. With these robberies also camegangland violence and corruption. Fictionali...Lasīt vairāk
Homicide investigator and criminal behavioralist Sarah Cailean highlights eight womenfrom Kate Warne and Isabella Goodwin to Frances Glessner Lee and Barbara Rae-Venterwhose work impacted investigations, law enforcement, forensics, and other rel...Lasīt vairāk
The gripping true story, that reads like fiction, of how legendary FBI Special Agent Martin Suarez went deep undercoverand lived a double-life for yearsto infiltrate Colombias most insidious drug cartels....Lasīt vairāk
Government agencies and rival factions were closing in. His look-alike had already fallen victim to professional hitmen and his once-powerful allies in Cuban intelligence and the DEA could no longer guarantee his safety. How did a boy from Mancheste...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Random House Trade Paperbacks, ISBN-13: 9780593243879)
Americas first great organized-crime lord was a ladya nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.A tour de force . . . With a pickpockets finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.Liza Mu...Lasīt vairāk
According to the FBI, morebank and armored-car robbers have come out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, thanany other one-square-mile area in the world. With these robberies also camegangland violence and corruption. Fictionali...Lasīt vairāk
Describes the true story of an FBI agent who spent years deep undercover infiltrating Colombias most insidious drug cartels to expose a multibillion-dollar money laundering operation, all while balancing his dangerous double life with his family. 50...Lasīt vairāk
This edited book (volume 2) focuses on exploring the regional security issues associated with transnational unconventional organized crime. The book is divided into 4 sections:Part 1: EuropePart 2: Asia and the Middle EastPart 3: Afric...Lasīt vairāk
In this intimate and harrowing memoir, a former Chinese gang member tells the story of how he went from bad to blue by leaving the gang behind and becoming a New York City police detective.Nestled in the warm embrace of h...Lasīt vairāk
In this intimate and harrowing memoir, a former Chinese gang member tells the story of how he went from bad to blue by leaving the gang behind and becoming a New York City police detective.Nestled in the warm embrace of h...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.The UK con...Lasīt vairāk
The Darke family and their associates are under attack. Rubys burlesque club has been razed to the ground. Her son Kits closest associate, Rob Hinton, is dead. And when Rubys lover, gangland boss Thomas Knox, is blown to pieces by a car...Lasīt vairāk
This book seeks to serve as a short primer to students and individuals seeking to understand criminal organizations in Latin America. This work examines who are the major criminal actors in numerous countries across the region, including Mexico, Col...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communication methods, origin myths, symbols, and lifestyles that imbue them with the...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful. This new edition examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communication methods, origin myths, symbols, and lifestyles, and serv...Lasīt vairāk
Glittering... the author’s obvious enthusiasm for the subject is matched by impressive erudition The SpectatorWhen does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of...Lasīt vairāk
A page-turner about page-turners Janice Hallett The perfect piece of armchair detection Ruth Ware Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping London Review of Books A true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sa...Lasīt vairāk
Canada Under Siege: How Prince Edward Island (PEI) became a Forward Operation Base for the CCP, unveils the unsettling reality of foreign infiltration and corruption within the tranquil borders of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), an area pivotal to C...Lasīt vairāk
The 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a Golden Age, it was a veneer, and although the decade was specifically called The Gay Nineties, the gaiety was generally reserved for the gilt-edged, top ten percenters. If you were a com...Lasīt vairāk
The Afghanistan Drug Insights 2024 is a set of four reports that provide latest data and in-depth analysis on aspects of the evolving drug situation in Afghanistan. Opium production in Afghanistan remains low for the second consecutive year, with pr...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the infiltration of Italian and Russian organised crime in the UK real estate market, assessing how vulnerable the UK is to these sorts of activities. It identifies the drivers behind the criminal choices and modus operandi of I...Lasīt vairāk
The ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. is just a glimpse of a complex ecosystem characterized by the interaction of multifaceted actors from various countries around the world cooperating across different stages of the global supply chain....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Minedition (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc), ISBN-13: 9781662603112)
For a tough-guy book about tough guys, this is a work of almost unerring tenderness. If its subtitle promises redemption, the book itself delivers something more honest: stories about people broken by powers larger than they are and who nonethe...Lasīt vairāk
A touching memoir (The New York Times Book Review) that brilliantly blends a history of Boston and its surrounding areas with the history of a fascinatingand at times functionalfamily (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselli...Lasīt vairāk
Despite great strides in recent years, human trafficking remains a horrific reality for countless millions of people around the world. This new book provides an exhaustive examination of the complex issue of human trafficking while offering a comp...Lasīt vairāk
Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down. Part Mafia history, part...Lasīt vairāk
Serial killers. Assassins. Executioners. Real and horrifying conversations with the worlds most dangerous killers, from activist, speaker and podcast host Shaun Attwood....Lasīt vairāk
In this intimate and harrowing memoir, a former Chinese gang member tells the story of how he went from bad to blue by leaving the gang behind and becoming a New York City police detective.Nestled in the warm embrace of h...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an analysis on how organized crime operates in Spain and the security apparatus to try to contain it.Organized crime is currently one of the most serious security threats facing democratic societies. Despite its intense pre...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups. Organised crime poses particular challenges to the criminal justice s...Lasīt vairāk
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of emerging trends in (transnational) organized criminality in contemporary Africa. Utilizing empirical and evaluative data sources scholars, professionals, and researchers in transnational organized...Lasīt vairāk
Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how...Lasīt vairāk
