CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1537296302; ISBN13: 978-1537296302. The mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix. Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terrible enemy, yet a wonderful friend. While donating millions to the poor, he...
McFarland, 2015. — 212 p. While on honeymoon in Vienna in June of 1998, at the height of the tourist season, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief, happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted the last remaining “Sisi Star” on display in Schönbrunn Palace. Named after its former owner, the Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl star...
Berkley Book, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN 978-1-101-61826-4. A uniquely American saga that spans six decades, The Quiet Don follows Russell Bufalino’s remarkably quiet ascent from Sicilian immigrant to mob soldier to a man described by a United States Senate subcommittee in 1964 as “one of the most ruthless and powerful leaders of the Mafia in the United States.”
Grove Press, 2001. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0802137571; ISBN13: 9780802137579. From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking...briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales.
Kindle Edition, 2001. — 384 p. — ASIN B002ROKQRO. Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage--a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the...
Bookmark Förlag, 2016. — 261 s. Pablo Escobar var den colombianske knarkkungen vars kriminella kokainimperium höll en hel nation som gisslan. Men för Escobar räckte det inte att vara rik och mäktig. Han ville framför allt bli beundrad, respekterad och älskad. I Killing Pablo Escobar skildras närgånget den mytomspunne kartelledarens uppgång och den sexton månader långa jakt som...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012. — 266 p. — ISBN: 0802120342; SBN13 9780802120342. From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded. After...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 524 р. — ISBN 9781250282392 The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gang. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as...
Harcourt, 2005. — 720 p. Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life...
London: Atlantic Books, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78239-347-4; ISBN: 978-1-78239-348-1. After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the...
Simon & Schuster, 2009. — 1030 р. — ISBN-10: 1-4165-5718-0 Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker—previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 828 р. — ISBN 978-1-4516-4516-3 Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson. The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1681771446; ISBN13: 978-1681771441. The gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II's court One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. — 304 p. — ISBN 9782019022495, 0735211620. «Thoroughly engrossing... a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.» — The Wall Street Journal. From The New York Times – bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world. Henry Every was the...
DoppelHouse Press, 2016. — 256 c. — ISBN10: 0997003472, ISBN13: 978-0997003475. Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of...
Canary Press, 2011. — 512 p. — (True Crime). Heather Tallchief escaped from the USA with the man she loved and $2.5 million that didn't belong to her. She must have been on an incredible high. However, the buzz didn't last long. Soon after she and Roberto Solanis landed in Amsterdam to start their new life together, her lover vanished with the loot. Read Heather's incredible...
Poznań: Filia, 2023. — 336 s. Seryjna morderczyni. Sadystka. Szalona kobieta. Wampirzyca. Wilkołak. Wszystkie te epitety i określenia przypisywane są Elżbiecie Batory. Słynęła nie tylko z wyrafinowanego okrucieństwa, lecz także z nieprzeciętnej inteligencji i urody. Zwana „Panią na Czachticach“ lub „Wampirzycą z Transylwanii“, przeszła do historii jako jedna z najokrutniejszych...
PublicAffairs, 2011. — 224 p. — eISBN 978-1-568-58668-7. In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI,...
Wharncliffe Books, 2013. — 212 p. Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history – the case of John Christie. Much has been written about the Christie killings and the fate of Timothy Evans who was executed for murders Christie...
Naperville: Sourcebooks, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1402253540; ISBN13: 9781402253546. Shocking Stories of the Most Infamous Unsolved Crimes Every criminal dreams of committing the perfect crime. A crime that is so well executed, with clues and evidence so scarce, that even the experts are left baffled. The Killer Book of Cold Cases takes you behind the crime scene tape and deep...
J.F. Blair, 1993. — 214 p. — ISBN: 978-0-89587-098-8. This book is not intended to take the place of an academic treatise, but I have spent weeks researching at the Library of Congress, making phone calls to libraries eliciting their cooperation, and visiting cities or islands frequented by pirates the length of the Atlantic coast from Portland, Maine; Portsmouth, New...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2010. — 327 p. The true story of one of the twentieth century's most audacious art frauds. Filled with extraordinary characters and told at breakneck speed, Provenance reads like a well-plotted thriller. But this is most certainly not fiction. It is the astonishing narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate cons in the history of art forgery....
Basic Books, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-0465021819. Unlike previous accounts of the man who assassinated Kennedy, which focus on whether he acted alone, journalist Savodnik here delivers a genuine biography that emphasizes the nearly three years Oswald spent in the Soviet Union and attempts to address the oft-neglected question of why he wanted to kill the President. A mildly...
Gallery Books, 2006. — 352 p. Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more — they examine all...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 492 p. — ISBN10: 1626365466. — ISBN13: 978-1626365469 In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three “confidence men.” In addition to the stark black and white photos that accompanied the article,...
AK Press, 2024. — 525 р. — ISBN: 978-1-84935-579-7 For the first time in English, the life story of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees. In 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed over the plates he'd used to forge 20 million dollars in traveler's checks, and walked away a free man. This is the true story of...
Farcountry Press, 1999. — 288 p. When Ted Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber, no one was more surprised than his neighbor, Waits. It was only as he followed the FBI agents in their search for evidence that he realized that the gentle hermit who had lived near him for 25 years was guilty of such violent acts. Waits and journalist Shors recount the day-to-day events as...
Public Affairs, 2007. — 448 p. The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apulian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It...
М.: Родина, 2022. — 513 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-765-0. Когда тебе нечего терять, тебе уже ничего не страшно… Софья Перовская организовала убийство царя Александра II. Вера Фигнер была главной обвиняемой по «Делу четырнадцати», а свое последнее слово она превратила в программную речь, изменившую ход истории. Фанни Каплан стреляла во Владимира Ленина, а...
М.: Книжники, 2020. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-906999-41-2. «Ангел Смерти» — так называли Йозефа Менгеле заключённые Освенцима. Десятки тысяч стали жертвами его «медицинских опытов», от описания которых кровь стынет в жилах. После войны его искали, но так и не сумели найти. Кем же он был — этот скромный отпрыск зажиточной семьи, медик средних способностей, бестрепетно воспринявший...
М.: Родина, 2021. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-00180-191-7. "Первое убийство напугало и сконфузило меня, но после второго я испытал ликование и радость". - Андрей Чикатило Выпускник филологического факультета Ростовского университета по специальности "Русский язык и литература", скромный завуч в школе, председатель районного комитета физической культуры и спорта, скромный семьянин,...
Москва: Родина, 2023. — 360 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00222-205-6. Синдикат, Мафия, Картель, Организация, Cosa Nostra… Эти названия прочно ассоциируются с именем знаменитого гангстера Аль Капоне. Однако основателем могущественной криминальной империи был далеко не он. В течение десятилетий, оставаясь практически незаметным и для самой мафии, и для...
М.: Вильямс, 2006. — 420 с. — ISBN 5-8459-0886-8. Приходилось ли вам играть в казино? А случалось ли выигрывать? А знаете ли вы людей, которым это удавалось не раз? Книга Бена Мезрича как раз о таких людях — оседлавших удачу, сделавших игру своей профессией. И дело тут не в везении. Студенты Массачусетсского технологического института придумали, как обыграть казино, разработали...
Ростов н/Д.: Феникс, 2012. — 196 с. — (След в истории) — ISBN 978-5-222-19333-4. Ее имя вызывало трепет даже у самых отчаянных бандитов. Эту женщину разыскивала полиция всех стран Европы. Ходили слухи, что банда, главарем которой она являлась, состояла полностью из ее бывших мужей. О Софье Блювштейн, вошедшей в историю как Сонька Золотая Ручка, ходило и ходит до сих пор...
Минск: Литература, 1997. — 608 с. — (Энциклопедия тайн и сенсаций). — ISBN 985-437-045-3. Новый том серии «Энциклопедия тайн и сенсаций» посвящен авантюристам, иллюзионистам, фальсификаторам и фальшивомонетчикам. В книге собраны наиболее интересные факты о людях, отличающихся одаренностью и огромной энергией, однако нередко направляющих их не на пользу обществу.
СПб.: Питер-Пресс, 2021. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-4461-0978-4. В 1970-х годах Фрэнк «Левша» Розенталь был одним из самых влиятельных и противоречивых людей в Лас-Вегасе. Он отвечал за крупнейшие казино Невады и стал известен как успешный менеджер-новатор, который создал индустрию букмекеров в Вегасе. Он был игроком до мозга костей. Человеком, устанавливающим коэффициенты. Хозяином...
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — 352 с. — (Библиотека "Коммерсантъ". Коллекция историй). — ISBN: 978-5-699-48096-8. Эта книга – дополненное и переработанное издание одной из самых успешных и тиражных отечественных бизнес-книг последних трех лет «Крупнейшие мировые аферы и аферисты. Искусство обмана и обман как искусство».В первой части книги описывается зарождение жанра аферы. Во второй...
М.: Рипол Классик. — 2018. — 343 c. — ISBN: 978-5-521-00891-9. Известный американский журналист и писатель Тед Шварц рассказывает невероятную историю одного из самых жестоких насильников и убийц США, прозванного Хиллсайдским душителем.
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