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Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game.

The true story that inspired the Sofia Coppola film Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson: robbed. More than $3 million in stolen clothing, jewelry, shoes, and handbags reported missing. Who is behind one of the most brazen string of crimes in recent Hollywood history? Meet...

Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." The book is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life entails.

True crime, conspiracy theories, and scary ghost stories; two people who love talking about completely different things telling each other things they've never heard of, together!

Ronald Kitchen was 21, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent 22 years in prison, 13 of those on death row, labeled as a monster. Kitchen was only one of the many victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew that terrorized and incarcerated Black men - 118 have come forward so far - on the south side of Chicago for nearly two decades.

What happens when a 41 year old human trafficking survivor begins to tell her story on social media without any concept of safety as she also navigates new homelessness? She gets lured out to an RV Park in Montrose, CO, is encouraged to participate in forced poverty and off-grid living, & her digital image is used in an attempt to lure others. When she begins to understand the parts AI & social media played in this national trafficking scheme, she turns to the FBI, police, & human trafficking hotline, but no one believes her. So she records a podcast from within the ring, hoping for help.

The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson. As a tough...

For more than a year, over two brutal Northeast winters, the whole of Vermont was captivated by the hunt for a runaway golden retriever named Murphy. He was more than a missing dog - he was a target for capture, and journalistic obsession. This is that story. Murphy’s disappearance would unite the dog’s increasingly anxious owners with an impassioned reporter - Wilson Ring, the state’s correspondent for the Associated Press - and an online community of animal lovers. As Murphy kept running, the quest to bring him home, safe and sound, seemed more and more impossible.

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. Broken in mind, body and spirit and completely isolated from the rest of the world, Hannah thinks she’ll never find the...

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A prominent New Jersey doctor and members of a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang transform the doctor's office into a drug ring, pumping thousands of highly addictive opioid pain pills onto the streets in exchange for cash. Everything was going smoothly until one person discovered their plan: the doctor's wife. When she threatened to divorce him, the doctor's unholy alliance with his partners in crime turned deadly, and the doctor hired a hitman to kill her.

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La vita di Peppino Impastato, ucciso dalla mafia nel '78, raccontata come mai prima d'ora. Peppino e Giovanni Impastato nascono a Cinisi, nella città metropolitana di Palermo, in una famiglia strettamente legata a Cosa Nostra. Ben presto Peppino, più grande del fratello di cinque anni, si ribella e viene cacciato di casa. Da qui inizia il suo coraggioso attivismo antimafia e il suo impegno politico nella sinistra, ragioni per le quali la mafia lo uccide nel 1978, insabbiandone l'omicidio. Ma la verità e la rivoluzionaria lotta di Peppino non possono essere fermati.

In questo libro, a venticinque anni di distanza dai fatti, Roberta Bruzzone ricostruisce le tappe fondamentali del delitto Versace, una storia torbida e intricata, ipotizzando piste alternative e raccontando ai suoi lettori quella che si può a tutti gli effetti "un'indagine imperfetta".

In 1997, Craig was part of an elite group of nine NSW Police officers ... his work was secret to his family and even to his fellow Police... His role was to gather intelligence on corrupt Police who protected the Crime Syndicate and Drug Lord networks. While working on one of the biggest undercover operations in Australia's history, came the biggest blow of the Goozee’s lives. Their beautiful 8 year old daughter, Jessica, was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of cancer – Ewing Sarcoma. From here on, Craig worked days surveilling Sydney’s most heinous criminals... And nights were...

Hermann Goering, capo della Luftwaffe, l'aviazione tedesca nella seconda guerra mondiale, il maresciallo del Reich, il vice di Adolf Hitler, è una delle figure più affascinanti e inquietanti tra tutti i gerarchi nazisti. Simona Teodori è nata a Roma il 5 ottobre 1975. Nel 2001 si laurea in Giurisprudenza all'Università "La Sapienza" di Roma ed esercita attualmente la professione forense nella Capitale. Scrive da sempre: la prima frase sensata che uscì dalla sua penna - lei aveva 7 anni - è ancora conservata in un diario chiuso con un lucchetto di cui, però, ha perso la chiave.

A differenza delle altre figure di spicco del nazismo, la vita e la fama di Amon Göth ruotano tutte intorno alle sue azioni nei campi di concentramento. Quest'uomo dall'aspetto sgradevole, il fisico corpulento, gli occhi sempre accesi di ira, non ha davvero una vita all'infuori dei lager. Non ha talenti particolari, non ha interessi, non ha passioni vere e proprie. La sua esistenza è tutta legata alla guerra agli ebrei, all'antisemitismo, che gli permette di sfogare i suoi istinti peggiori, i suoi frequenti accessi di rabbia, di crudele sadismo.