Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "e;Best Books of the Year"e; From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking-winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction-comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai.
Let's go back to the past 113 years or moreto a time in America where in a small community in Bradford, Pennsylvania, lived a young, beautiful woman named Rosie.
When I was a young man, I loved traditional English murder mysteries, the ones in which all the suspects were assembled at the end of the book and some wily detective explained the reasoning and clues that led to the identity of the murderer.
A page-turning real-life thriller, Lucifer's Banker Uncensored is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the secret Swiss high-net worth banking industry and a harrowing account of our government's justice system.
"e;THE WRONG HOUSE"e;(Marielito; Exodus of Cubans in 1980)By Esteban BurierFor all opponents of the Castro regime who went to comply with arbitrary sanctions;for those who were executed by the Castro regime; deprived of any defense, innocentof cases imposed by improvised courts; for those who were under the inclemencyof the murderer Ernesto (Che) Guevara and so many other lap dogs of the dictatorFidel Castro; They are my deepest respect and admiration.
Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime is a searing indictment of professional basketball players who live in a world where criminal laws and social norms don't exist, a world where they are given license to act above the law.
The United States puts more people behind bars every year than any other nation, but what they experience inside our jails and prisons is almost entirely hidden from the view of the public.
Cid, a Filipino musician who defied being away from a loving and protective family, dared to go to Japan during the time when the story of Maricris, a Filipina entertainer who was allegedly killed by a yakuza by plunging his sword to her vagina, was all over the news back home.
When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild.
De lo que trata la historia es del giro que da la vida en cualquier ser humano, en ambos sexos, y en cualquier estrato social, el pasar del estatus de libertad al estado de privacion de la misma, y el mensaje principal de este manuscrito es alertarlo a usted senor lector a que jamas se vea envuelto en una circunstancia de esa indole que sin ocultar y sin llenarme de orgullo yo fui encarcelado por setenta meses por circunstancias ajenas a mi voluntad asi que lo vivi en carne propia y mi deseo es que usted aprenda de tal experiencia sin vivirla, la cual es poco o nada agradable.
On June 26, 1996, an international outcry was heard over the assassination of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, gunned down by Ireland's most vicious gang.
