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Brought to you by Penguin. The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too...

Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate neighbour and patron. He was also a criminal willing to consider any type of crime, provided it supported his lifestyle and his ego. Squizzy graduated from teenage pickpocket to adult murderer, from organizing smash-and-grab raids on jewellers to corrupting juries and suborning witnesses.

THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALL Narrated by Barnaby Edwards. In 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by an ex-MI5 agent and International Diamond...

In 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by an ex-MI5 agent and International Diamond Security Organization operative going by the alias “John Blaize,” Fleming chronicled the IDSO’s infiltration of the “million-carat network”—the world’s most notorious diamond smuggling ring.

Ian Brady, Myra Hindley og landskabet mellem Lancashire og Yorkshire udgør tilsammen en dødelig kombination. For over 50 år siden kidnappede, voldtog og myrdede Ian Brady og Myra Hindley flere børn. Efter de såkaldte Moors Murders (hedemordene) savnes fortsat den 12-årige Keith Bennetts jordiske rester. Drengen fra Longsight forsvandt sporløst den 16. juni 1964, bare fire dage efter sin fødselsdag. Han var gået hjem til sin mormor, da Hindley og Brady var ude på jagt og spottede drengen alene.