Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Criminals & Outlaws

From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives.

In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the...

In September 1955, nearly half a million dollars is stolen from Mafia coffers, and suspicion immediately falls upon Dick Enty, a mixed Native American living on a weather-beaten property in Eddyville, New York. He manages to bury the treasure on the FitzGerald land in Kingston, New York, but is caught by the mobsters before he can make it home. Pistol-whipped and beaten half to death, he survives the ordeal but unwittingly manages to turn the gangsters on to the trail of his beautiful Indian lover, Hyawatha Two-Feathers.

Tragically, the gangsters kill Dick anyway, and begin a massive...

In the fall of 1975, Mikey Thomas, hit man for Tony Martinelli-Toledo's Mafia Crime Boss-moves his family back to his old stomping grounds of Toledo, Ohio after getting into legal trouble in Louisiana. He returns to his old life carrying out contracts for Tony and while doing so, he also finds himself more involved in the seedier side of being a biker. Author Kerri Thomas, Mikey's daughter from a previous marriage, is just ten years old at the time.

In Scot Free II, the second book in the series, Thomas shares a fictionalized memoir of her father's life and how it affected...

Around the Clock...Diary of a Street Cop is the story of one man's coming of age, and career in the New York City Police Department. The author escorts you through a journey inside the world of a content young man who came upon this profession quite by chance, and exposes the reader to the daily rigors of the patrol function as it existed in the transitional decades of the 1960's through the end of the 1970's. It underscores how most day to day police activities are not glamorous, nor are they the subject of incidences of super sleuth/who-done-it drama, or nail biting suspense so...

""I CRIED, YOU DIDN'T LISTEN" IS THE MOST POWERFUL TALE OF HORROR WITHIN THE WALLS OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS SINCE "'PAPILLON.'" THE TERRIFYING ASPECT IS THAT IT DESCRIBES AMERICA'S JUVENILE SYSTEM" - Alden Mills, "ARETE" MAGAZINE

"THE AUTHOR'S WELL-WRITTEN STORY COMES AT THE READER FAST AND FURIOUSLY; SHOCKING READERS INTO AN AWARENESS OF THE INHUMANITY OF AMERICA'S JUVENILE PENAL INSTITUTIONS."- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

""I CRIED, YOU DIDN'T LISTEN" IS A POWERFUL...