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By the age of thirteen, vulnerable Sheffield teenager Samantha Owens had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around numerous foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in the streetwise Amanda Spencer. The older girl bought her...

Chaque année, des personnes disparaissent en zone urbaine dans des circonstances étranges. Elles se volatilisent parfois en plein jour, au milieu de la foule. Et les téléphones portables, caméras de surveillance et GPS n'y changent rien. La plupart du temps, on ne les retrouve jamais et la police est perplexe. Où sont passés tous ces gens ? Que leur est-il arrivé ? Un étudiant qui rentre dans un bar et qu'on ne voit jamais ressortir... Une famille en voiture qui s'évapore sur la route un soir de Noël.

Un ensayo muy bien documentado sobre una realidad oscura de Galicia.

Cesare Battisti, ultimo atto. La spettacolare cattura dell'ex PAC in sette articoli di Repubblica: Battisti, fine della fuga. Tradito dal wi-fi in Bolivia, di Carlo Bonini; L'espulsione e il volo verso l'Italia: "Nessuno sconto, farà l'ergastolo", di Giuliano Foschini; Cesare Battisti, la democrazia e i suoi eversori, di Ezio Mauro; Spataro su Battisti: "Ha ucciso e non si è mai pentito anche 40 anni dopo è giusto che paghi", di Piero Colaprico; La poliziotta dei telefoni e il segugio a Santa Cruz così è scattata la trappola, di Carlo Bonini.

Coca, farlopa, perico, merca, Fariña. Nunca Galicia comercializó un producto con tanto éxito. Aunque ahora parezca una pesadilla lejana, en los años 90 el 80 por ciento de la cocaína desembarcaba en Europa por las costas gallegas. A través de testimonios directos de capos, pilotos de planeadoras, arrepentidos, jueces, policías, periodistas y madres de toxicómanos, Nacho Carretero retrata con minuciosidad este paisaje criminal. Fariña incluye, además, un repaso inédito por los clanes que siguen operando hoy en día.

America's most famous DEA federal agent - the man who brought down El Chapo and the real life Hank from Breaking Bad 'I WANTED TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CARTELS. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR YOU. BUT AS I WOULD SOON FIND OUT, THEY WERE GOING TO...

A college baseball scholarship was his way out of the inner city, but his dreams of going pro were crushed by an arm injury. John Alite was forced to return home to the only life he knew, where having to live on the streets of New York meant one thing - earning how to survive. From a young age, he found himself influenced by the wrong crowd. Enticed by the wealth, power, and prestige of the mafia, he immersed himself in a world that was foreign to most. But the cold, bitter truth was he was expendable, and his sworn allegiance was rewarded with betrayal.

Camorran, som har sitt säte i Neapel, är Italiens äldsta maffia. Den är mer mordisk och har intensivare klanstrider än den sicilianska maffian och på senare tid har den också blivit en stark kraft i världsekonomin. Trots detta är camorran ganska okänd. Finns förklaringen det neapolitanska samhällets historia - ett samhälle som genomsyras av klasskillnader och där moderna jämlikhetsideal har svårt att accepteras? Camorran är en del i den offentliga kulturen i Neapel med rötter som kan spåras tillbaka till antikens slaveri, och ofta har kvinnorna en betydande roll i klanernas ekonomiska och militära förehavanden.

Våld, blodsband och decennier långa vendettor omgärdade av en uråldrig mur av tystnad. Det här är en bok om världens mäktigaste maffia, ‘ndranghetan i Kalabrien, som gått från att ha ansetts vara en primitiv kidnappningsorganisation till att spela en avgörande roll i den europeiska droghandeln. Tomas Lappalainen, född 1958, är en svensk författare och journalist. Han har skrivit ett flertal böcker, många med inriktning på maffian.

The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s daring raids were...

According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous institution: Organized crime. In his classic expos, Interference, Moldea bares the dark, sordid underbelly of America's favorite professional team sport, revealing a nest of corruption that the league has largely ignored since its inception.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. 

January 2, 1972: Men in tuxedos rob the Pierre, a New York hotel. They get away with $11 million worth of cash and jewelry. The police are baffled by how large-scale a heist could go off so smoothly. The answer was in the leader of the thieves, a man by the name of Bobby Comfort. Comfort took to crime from a young age, card sharping, petty theft, and eventually robbery. Taking money from the rich, though, was where he excelled.

In the early days, before he founded the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas and became the patron saint of the World Series of Poker, cowboy Benny Binion was a horse trader, a bootlegger, and the "boss gambler" of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. This book traces Binion's rise to power in the Dallas underworld during World War II. By 1946, more than two dozen "casinos" operated illegally in downtown Dallas in hotel suites, and Benny Binion owned at least half of them.

In the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations.

Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster, but he never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50 years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family.

Criminal exploits, secret agent intrigue, and clever disguises fill the pages of Francois Eugene Vidocq’s memoirs. A legendary figure in history, Vidocq is known as the first detective and an inspiration to great writers such as Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Edgar Allen Poe. As a player in the criminal underworld, Vidocq is a master of disguises and an accomplished thief, eventually turning his unlawful talents toward catching criminals as the first French chief of secret police.

Forced out of the work-hard, play-hard world of Wall Street following the Crash of ’87, financial analyst Cary Cimino was determined to maintain his lifestyle of luxury and ease. Under the guidance of dubious businessman Jeffrey Pokross, Cimino embarked on an illegitimate underground career as a “financial adviser” to naïve investors. Cimino’s small-time operation soon spiraled into a large-scale crime ring when he and Pokross were reunited and met with Mafia wiseguy Robert Lino. 

Con Giovanni Falcone, insieme al quale inizia il suo tirocinio in magistratura, Antonio Ingroia incontra il primo segno del suo destino futuro. Subito dopo, a Marsala, si troverà accanto a un altro giudice: Paolo Borsellino. Falcone e Borsellino, i precursori. Con loro muove i primi passi: li affianca negli interrogatori, li osserva, ne studia i gesti e le parole, ne ricava una lezione risolutiva di impegno professionale e di passione civile. Poi le stragi di Capaci e di via D'Amelio. Da sostituto procuratore a Palermo, Ingroia diventa un protagonista della lotta a Cosa Nostra.

For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey, labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York - the likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found their lives mirrored in the television hit, The Sopranos. Overnight it legitimized the made men of the Garden State. Now they were a familia to be reckoned with. Unfortunately with high profile came high risk.