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Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher
ISBN: 9781439177112 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. Cop Without a Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve cases that range from robbery to extortion to homicide. In the process, Kevin becomes the highest paid CI the DEA ever had. But Kevin's motives are more complicated than simply money. Having been arrested for Grand Theft Auto at the age of sixteen, his felony conviction prevents him from being what he always... WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. Cop Witho... |
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78,29 |
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Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons
ISBN: 9780007334148 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No further information has been provided for this title.
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
ISBN: 9780307279279 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.
Keefe reveals the inner workings of Sister Ping s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way, he paints a stunning... In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-ag...
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74,41 |
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Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South
ISBN: 9780312614348 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled expose of the operations of the Mafia today In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled expose o... |
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140,95 |
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The Law of Public Order and Protest
ISBN: 9780199566143 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The landscape of public order law has changed dramatically over the last decade. A wide range of legislation - including the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005 and the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 has been enacted. Which has established legislation on trespass, criminal damage and the use of the highway, and has been put to new use in the criminalization of protestors.
The Law of Public Order and Protest provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the law relating to public order and the right to protest. The text provides a comprehensive guide to the area,... The landscape of public order law has changed dramatically over the last decade. A wide range of legislation - including the Serious Organized Crime a...
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1159,29 |
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Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism
ISBN: 9780199578436 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organized crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of L20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism offers a unique approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise. Structured in three parts, the book progresses systematically through key areas and concepts integral to dealing effectively with the myriad...
Organized crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the...
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260,43 |
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Naughty Bastards: Twenty-one True Stories
ISBN: 9781844549153 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a deadly code of conduct that operates beyond the boundaries of the everyday. It's a world where anger, strength, and terrifying ferocity must be controlled with total precision and perfect timing. It is an art known to only a few. In this unique project, Kate Kray has met such men and talked to them on their own ground. They have opened up to her, told her their storiesthe hunger and poverty they have endured as kids with crime and violence on every street corner, a world where it's a thin line between survival and the cold slab in the city mortuary. With integrated photographs, the...
There is a deadly code of conduct that operates beyond the boundaries of the everyday. It's a world where anger, strength, and terrifying ferocity mus...
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61,36 |
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Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from the Godfather to the Sopranos
ISBN: 9780786443116 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'post-classic' era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the popular and highly influential The Godfather. This historical study explores the structure, myths and intertextual narratives found in the gangster films produced since The Godfather. The intense relationship between masculinity and ethnicity in the gangster film, especially within the movie-generated mythology of the Mafia, is carefully analyzed, and the book tracks the trends in the genre up to and including the landmark HBO television series...
The 'post-classic' era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the ...
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170,52 |
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Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss
ISBN: 9780786446667 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes scholarship on Luciano to a new level. Topics include the complex structure of the New York City bordellos and the takeover, his role in the expansion of he international heroin trade, and the shocking attempt to frame sexually a member of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey's staff in a desperate bid to overturn Luciano's conviction--Provided by publisher.
This book takes scholarship on Luciano to a new level. Topics include the complex structure of the New York City bordellos and the takeover, his role ...
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170,52 |
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
ISBN: 9780307475299 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein... A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
Jake Adelstein is the only Ame... |
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70,50 |
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Gemini Joe: Memoirs of Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780615290416 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joe, the son of a mobster, watches his father s mob loyalty force his family into a life of secrecy and deceit. As he struggles to avoid becoming his father, Joe discovers his father s influence is hard to ignore. The physical and emotional abuse Joe endured leaves him unable to express love for his own family. From his childhood in Brooklyn during the Depression, to his involvement in the Italian Mafia, and then his later foray into politics, the reader experiences one man s struggle to overcome his past.
Joe, the son of a mobster, watches his father s mob loyalty force his family into a life of secrecy and deceit. As he struggles to avoid becoming his ...
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Memoirs of an Accused Madam: The War on Adult Business in Orlando
ISBN: 9781439229248 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1992, Vicky Gallas opened escort services in Orlando, Florida. Two years later she became the focus of an intense criminal investigation that resulted in her arrest in late 2001, and subsequent jury trial. In this hard-hitting memoir, she reveals how racketeering and organized crime charges were brought against her based on proof so flimsy that agents and prosecutors could not get a wiretap or a warrant to search. The story begins in early 1993, with the discovery of blocks on escort service telephone lines in Orlando area resort PBX systems during large convention bookings. The...
In 1992, Vicky Gallas opened escort services in Orlando, Florida. Two years later she became the focus of an intense criminal investigation that resul...
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101,58 |
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The Mafia Princess Diaries
ISBN: 9781449981884 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angelina Merrezzi grew up with many things, but a safe, normal childhood was not one of them. As the only child of Angelo Merrezzi, head of the Merrezzi 5000 syndicate, she has lived through enough danger and excitement in her 18 years to fill a book. And her latest experience is providing her an opportunity to do just that. For reasons not immediately known to her, Angelina finds herself kidnapped. The culprit is PAG-the crime family of Juliani Paglia and the chief rival to Merrezzi 5000. Given a notebook and pen by her captors in hopes that she will record important information from her...
Angelina Merrezzi grew up with many things, but a safe, normal childhood was not one of them. As the only child of Angelo Merrezzi, head of the Merrez...
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28,75 |
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The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
ISBN: 9780061744662 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portrait of arguably the most depraved psychopath in the history of the Mafia, mob enforcer Tommy -Karate- Pitera. The Butcher tells the riveting true story of a hit man who loved his work too much--a maniac believed responsible for more than sixty remarkably brutal murders--whom even organized crime's most cold-blooded assassins feared. Another riveting journey into the darkest corners of the underworld, Carlo's The Butcher is...
The New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portra...
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74,37 |
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The Family Debt: The True Story of Giacomo Jack Bianco
ISBN: 9781450207706 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence Are Changing America's Suburbs
ISBN: 9781568586151 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing back the veil on a hidden, troubling world, this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism explores the startling growth of Central American gangs in the suburbs of America.
Drawing back the veil on a hidden, troubling world, this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism explores the startling growth of Central Amer...
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66,38 |
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
ISBN: 9781569765456 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime s ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago Outfit s cold-blooded--and sometimes incompetent--killers and their crimes in...
Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob bo...
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78,29 |
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Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade
ISBN: 9781580053136 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prisonand gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are...
Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and ...
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86,12 |
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Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family
ISBN: 9781555917067 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,37 |
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War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America's Public Lands
ISBN: 9781599219301 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inside story of the drug cartels on our public lands - and the game wardens taking them on Americans may disagree over the legalization of marijuana, but not when it comes to the pot plantations fast turning once-pristine corners of our public lands into environmentally ravageed war zones. Guarded by armed gangs, who are willing to kilL innocent hikers and law enforcement personnel to protect their profits, these illicit wilderness farms pollute and destroy the ecosystems wildlife relies on. Whose jurisdiction is this? Game wardens, the unsung heroes of our national wild lands, are the...
The inside story of the drug cartels on our public lands - and the game wardens taking them on Americans may disagree over the legalization of marijua...
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66,38 |
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