Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Law Enforcement

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 mph, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols--these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard-to-imagine-but-true story.

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Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Hollidaysuch are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. "Deadly Dozen" tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost forgotten today.

Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and lawlessness in the West, has combed court records,...

Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets...
LaVerne Dunlap: she infiltrated a drug gang and testified against them in court ... only to have the drug lords mark her for assassination.
Dep. County Sheriff Winroe Reed: he ventured into America's "Homicide Capital" alone to apprehend a 6'9" homicidal crack dealer... a man so dangerous no other cops would accompany him.
Chris Saffron: he worked the toughest drug gangs in Harlem, alone... even after his cover was blown.
These are just a few of the courageous black heroes readers will meet in Hugh Holton's The...

In this thrilling and fascinating account of Frank Bender and his work, readers will be drawn into the cases he has solved, the intricacies of his art, the colorful characters he encounters, and the personal cost of his strange obsession. Through breathtakingly realistic sculptures, Frank Bender reconstructs the faces of the missing and the dead based in part on forensic science, and in part on deep intuition, an uncanny ability to discern not only a missing face but also the personality behind it.

His...