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Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing at the Morgue: Shortlisted for CWA ALCS Dagger for Non-Fiction 2020
ISBN: 9781785785955 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A seriously eye-opening memoir' - Sunday Sport In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck. What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir...
'A seriously eye-opening memoir' - Sunday Sport In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six year...
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53,35 zł |
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Locks, Bolts and Bars: A Life Inside
ISBN: 9781803991030 / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,79 zł |
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Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption, and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang
ISBN: 9780750998895 / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,72 zł |
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True Story: Women's Prison She Paid a Extremely High Price: She Paid a Extremely High Price for Her Naivet, Gullibility, Credulity
ISBN: 9781512011210 / Bułgarski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Review of the book: Book, Women's Prison "contains curious and funny stories from the life of the heroine Nelly. The Author tells her story: Nelly was kidnapped when she was a schoolgirl, raped and abused by a repeat offender who hold her in captivity, and during the same time he continue to make other crimes. Fortunately arrest them, but instead to release her immediately, she remains in custody. Ludmil managed to twist things, and escape of the most heavily guarded detention facility in Bulgaria, Nelly remains hostage to the authorities. Past almost four years until Nelly receive her...
Review of the book: Book, Women's Prison "contains curious and funny stories from the life of the heroine Nelly. The Author tells her story: Nelly was...
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67,31 zł |
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Grand Hotel de Bajes: Een review door Andries Bik
ISBN: 9789082162530 / Holenderski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,79 zł |
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The Valachi Papers
ISBN: 9780060507428 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers--and where the bodies were buried--Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime... The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His n... |
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79,53 zł |
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Serpico: The Classic Story of the Cop Who Couldn't Be Bought
ISBN: 9780060738181 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought... The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruptio... |
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75,11 zł |
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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
ISBN: 9780060930967 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles. In Underboss, based on dozens of hours of interviews with Gravano, much of it written in Sammy the Bull's own voice, we are ushered as never...
In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, Jo...
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79,53 zł |
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The Good Rat LP
ISBN: 9780061363887 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime--and neither could anybody else. In his inimitable New York voice, Breslin, "the city's steadiest and most accurate chronicler" (Tom Robbins, Village Voice), gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the mafia--characters like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Gaspipe Casso (named for his weapon of choice),... Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Que... |
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128,68 zł |
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The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
ISBN: 9780198297369 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging widely held views, this book presents a thorough account of the Russian Mafia. It charts the emergence of the group in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. It includes reports of undercover police operations, in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia, criminals and officials, and documents from the Gulag archives. It also provides a comparative study, making references to other Mafia, such as the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, and the American-Italian Mafia.
Challenging widely held views, this book presents a thorough account of the Russian Mafia. It charts the emergence of the group in the context of the ...
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793,71 zł |
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Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen
ISBN: 9780231129152 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United States and Europe. Written by one of Colombia's leading writers, the book lets English-speaking readers get a good look--for the first time--at the people behind the drug trade. Colombians from many different backgrounds and parts of the country tell the story of how they got involved in smuggling and how some of them managed to get out alive. This book is about the predicament in which ordinary Colombians find themselves, forced to find a way...
Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United...
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216,72 zł |
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The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel
ISBN: 9780275977122 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Efforts to combat the influx of drugs from Colombia were often stymied by the careful organization and execution of the drug trade. Through the use of bribery, terrorist structures, and legitimate business practices, the cartel rose to become a serious threat to Colombian society's fragile stability, while providing over 70% of the world's cocaine to various markets. It took more than two decades and a global effort, spearheaded by U.S. law... For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Effort... |
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346,68 zł |
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The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
ISBN: 9780312362843 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loan sharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years--until their own violent... Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang... |
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88,37 zł |
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Organized Crime in Southeast Europe
ISBN: 9780415348010 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, organized crime has become endemic in the countries of southeast Europe giving rise to an urgent debate on what needs to be done to fight it. This collection of essays contributes directly to this debate. The discussions range over national and regional policies, the west European dimension of the phenomenon, and the less often discussed role that the media and civil society can play in the battle against organised crime.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. In recent years, organized crime has become endemic in the countries of southeast Europe giving rise to an urgent debate on what needs to be done to f...
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52,42 zł |
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New York Notorious: A Borough-By-Borough Tour of the City's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
ISBN: 9780517586709 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cross Hollywood Babylon with a New York tourist's guide and the result would be this bullet-riddled survey of the city's most nefarious crime scenes. Why go to tourist traps when you can check out the landmark sites of mob rubouts, celebrity busts, political corruption, riots, and urban disasters of every stripe. 8-page photo insert; 13 maps.
Cross Hollywood Babylon with a New York tourist's guide and the result would be this bullet-riddled survey of the city's most nefarious crime scenes. ...
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83,99 zł |
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Jungle Laws
ISBN: 9780595368655 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main character of this story, Tony Pavone, a Romanian constructor engineer, was hired by contract to work in the capital of Greece for a series of industrial buildings, as a result of the Greek investors' favorable appreciation for his professional capacity and promptness in releasing on time the orders he had received. An unfortunate happening made him get contaminated with radioactive toxin's whose poisonous substance burst out very strongly every four weeks causing him each time severe paralysis for at least three days running. During this period he was hallucinating fallen into a coma...
The main character of this story, Tony Pavone, a Romanian constructor engineer, was hired by contract to work in the capital of Greece for a series of...
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105,87 zł |
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Bordergate: The Story The Government Doesn't Want You to Read
ISBN: 9780595389841 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being systematically harassed out of DHS. This is a story of bureaucracy run amok at the expense of our national security. We are less safe now than before "9-11," even though billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Why? This is the gripping true story of National Security Whistleblowers and their courageous fight for justice against the very people who are supposed to be protecting us. If these whistleblowers lose their fight we all lose. What America's enemies have not...
There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being systematically harassed out of...
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97,03 zł |
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Bordergate: The Story The Government Doesn't Want You to Read
ISBN: 9780595834259 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being systematically harassed out of DHS. This is a story of bureaucracy run amok at the expense of our national security. We are less safe now than before "9-11," even though billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Why? This is the gripping true story of National Security Whistleblowers and their courageous fight for justice against the very people who are supposed to be protecting us. If these whistleblowers lose their fight we all lose. What America's enemies have not...
There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being systematically harassed out of...
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141,24 zł |
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Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order
ISBN: 9780674018389 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild shootout on the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York City's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern seaboard's drug trade. All seemingly separate acts of violence. But investigators discover a pattern to the mayhem, with links to scores of assaults and murders throughout the city. In this bloody urban saga, Robert Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives, and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics trafficking,... Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild shootout on the streets... |
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153,48 zł |
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Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect
ISBN: 9781540204714 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,36 zł |