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This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein
and the corrupt system that supported him and Ghislaine Maxwell,
told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented
Epstein's victims for more than a decade. In June 2008,
Florida-based victims' rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was
thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a
young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a
shocking story of having been sexually coerced at the age of
fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein.
Edwards, who had never heard of Epstein, had no idea that this
moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten
years, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to justice, and
came close to losing everything in the process. Edwards tracked
down and represented more than twenty of Epstein's victims, and
shined a light on his network of contacts and friends, among them
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
Edwards gives his riveting, blow-by-blow account of battling
Epstein on behalf of his clients, and provides stunning details
never shared before. He explains how he followed Epstein's criminal
enterprise from Florida, to New York, to Europe, to a Caribbean
island, and, in the process, became the one person Epstein most
feared could take him down. Epstein and his cadre of high-priced
lawyers were able to manipulate the FBI and the Justice Department,
but, despite making threats and attempting schemes straight out of
a spy movie, Epstein couldn't stop Edwards, his small team of
committed lawyers and, most of all, the victims, who were dead-set
on seeing their abuser finally put behind bars. This is the
definitive account of the Epstein saga, personally told by the
gutsy lawyer who took on one of the most brazen sexual criminals in
the history of the US, and exposed the corrupt system that let him
get away with it for far too long.
Environmental crime is arguably the most vital and destructive
crime of the 21st century, especially in the light of climate
change and shifts in social, economic and ecological circumstances
that will accompany global warming. The author takes an excitingly
broad and refreshing approach to environmental crime and
investigates a variety of topics including illegal fishing,
poaching, wildlife crimes, animal abuse, climate change and ecocide
as well as crimes related to waste, energy and contamination.
THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MASS MURDERS EVER RECORDED.
AND THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED WITH HER LIFE.
In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley,
Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang;
her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina's two children,
thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators
began scouring the area, yet despite an extensive search, no signs
of the missing people were discovered.
On the fourth day of the search, evidence trickled in about
neighborhood "weirdo" Matthew Hoffman. A police SWAT team raided
his home and found an extremely disturbing sight: every square inch
of the place was filled with leaves and a terrified Sarah Maynard
was bound up in the middle of it like some sort of perverted autumn
tableau. But there was no trace of the others.
Then came Hoffman's confession to an unspeakable crime that went
beyond murder and defied all reason. His tale of evil would make
Sarah's survival and rescue all the more astonishing--a compelling
tribute to a young girl's resilience and courage and to her fierce
determination to reclaim her life in the wake of unimaginable
wickedness.
John Massey's story is unique. Having spent a childhood in Borstals
and children's homes, he was arrested and charged with murder in
1975. At large during the 1960s and early 1970s, Massey was a
member of a notorious group of bank robbers, as well as being one
half of a criminal duo the Flying Squad dubbed Laurel and Hardy.
His career of crime saw him hijack a police car after stealing
GBP25,000 from a bank in Romford, steal a huge sum of money from
the Sunday Mirror's weekly payroll, undertake two daring prison
escapes, both of which made front page headlines, and live a life
undercover in the Costa del Sol working for drug smugglers. He has
served time, 43 years in total, in almost every prison in the
country and has known every notorious gangster and villain from the
1960s to the present day, including members of the IRA. In Locks,
Bolts and Bars, Massey, star of Channel 4's What Makes A Murderer
and Britain's longest-serving prisoner, reveals the day-to-day
realities of spending five decades inside, what it takes to escape,
and is a heart-breaking account of what life on the inside can
teach us about life on the outside.
'Absolutely gripping. Impeccably researched and written with the
pace and narrative drive of a thriller, but attentive too to the
dignity of the victims.' - Daragh Carville, creator of ITV's The
BayThe true story of the shocking 1930s murder case, and the
revolutionary investigation that changed forensics forever.
Lancaster, 1935. In a jealous rage, Dr Buck Ruxton kills his wife,
Isabella, and their children's nanny, Mary, before dismembering the
bodies in the bathtub. When walkers discover the remains scattered
in a ravine in the Scottish Borders, police are confronted with a
gruesome jigsaw puzzle that they must piece together - not only to
give the women their names back, but also to catch their killer.
Using new research, Jeremy Craddock tells the full story of this
landmark case in British criminal history. The Jigsaw Murders
brings to life Dr Ruxton, the investigators, the legal figures, and
silent witnesses Isabella and Mary, recreating the dramatic scenes
that shook the world.
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of
murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for
people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case
studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general
questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their
explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both
provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables
readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained
the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book
also embraces questions of race and gender, in particular cultural
constructions of masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and
the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context
of particular crimes on the other. Particular murders analysed
included those of Myra Hindley, Harold Shipman and the Bulger
murder.
'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read
it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he's a
national treasure.' Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe's work has
garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the
National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in
the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on
the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen
of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe says
in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations:
crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane
separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power
of denial.' Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging
$150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared
to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist,
spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest
to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant,
and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the
'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary
journalism. The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is
always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can
see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait
of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against
them.
Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of
radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A
firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early
twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by hundreds of thousands of
Britons but despised by the establishment. After a tumultuous life,
he walked out of his London apartment in September 1920 and was
never seen again. After a century, new documents have come to
light. Fragments of an unpublished autobiography, letters to his
lovers (both men and women), leading political and literary figures
including H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, and testimonies from
members of the Labour elite such as Clement Attlee have revealed
the real Victor Grayson. New research has uncovered the true events
leading up to his disappearance and suggests that he was actually
blackmailed by his former Party. In a time when homosexuality was
illegal, and socialism an international threat to capitalism,
Grayson was a clear target for those wanting to stamp out dissent.
This extraordinary biography reinstates to history a man who laid
the foundations for a whole generation of militant socialists in
Britain.
A single moment can change a life forever… A van full of men armed with AK47s is stopped by two policemen while driving through Bethlehem in the Free State. They open fire on the policemen and, from that moment, their lives are irrevocably changed. So to for Fusi Mofokeng, resident of Bethlehem, who was not at the scene of the crime but was the brother-in-law of one of the perpetrators. He is accused of being an accomplice and tried, sentenced and jailed.
Nineteen years later, in 2011, Fusi is released into a world that has changed beyond recognition, a world in which his mother, father and brother have all died. Throughout his incarceration he fought for his release, appearing before the TRC, and schooling himself in law. Even today, he seeks a presidential pardon.
It is to this life that award-winning author Jonny Steinberg turns his attention in One Day in Bethlehem. In examining the life and struggle of Fusi Mofokeng, Steinberg shines a searing light on the burden of the 'everyman' in his quest for justice. In doing so, he also captures a country as it violently sheds the skin of the past to
emerge, blinking, into the modern era.
'Richly textured, compelling, emotionally complex' Tammy Cohen 'The
trouble is, we don't recognise every danger when we see it. And
that's how Mr Man manages to creep into our lives.' It is 1966, and
things are changing in the close-knit Napier Road. Stephanie is 9
years old, and she has plans: 1. Get Jesus to heal her wonky foot
2. Escape her spiteful friend Dawn 3. Persuade her mum to love her
But everything changes when Stephanie strikes up a relationship
with Mr Man, who always seems pleased to see her. When Dawn goes
missing in the woods during the World Cup final, no one appears to
know what happened to her - but more than one of them is lying. May
1997, and Stephanie has spent her life trying to bury the events of
that terrible summer. When a man starts following her on the train
home from London, she realises the dark truth of what happened may
have finally caught up with her.
Product Note: Volume 3 of the 5 volume facsimile collection Key Writings on Subcultures, 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld [0-415-28675-1]
An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt
its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling
author Ron Suskind as "an honest and touching book, and a hell of a
story." In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown
left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore
voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the
boat's owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two
locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family.
After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome
collided with a nor'easter. They soon found themselves in the fight
of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the
boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered. The downing of
the Wind Blown has since become interwoven with the local folklore
of the East End's year-round population. Its tragic fate will never
be forgotten. In this "riveting man-vs.-nature story and compelling
tribute to those who perished" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),
journalist Amanda M. Fairbanks seeks out the reasons why an event
more than three decades old remains so startlingly vivid in
people's minds. She explores the ways in which deep, lasting grief
can alter people's memories. And she shines a light on the powerful
and sometimes painful dynamics between fathers and sons, as well as
the secrets that can haunt families from beyond the grave.
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last
woman to ever be executed in California-a murder so twisted it
seems ripped from a Greek tragedy. Deborah Larkin was only ten
years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was
shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa
Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her
apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's
mother in-law-a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman-had been
doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank,
prior to Olga's disappearance. From a forged annulment to multiple
attempts to hire people to "get rid" of Olga, to a faked
excoriation case, Elizabeth seemed psychopathically attached to her
son. Yet she denied having anything to do with Olga's disappearance
with a smile. But when Olga's brutally beaten body is found in a
shallow grave, apparently buried alive, a young DA makes it his
mission to see that Elizabeth Duncan is brought to justice. Adding
a wrinkle to his efforts is the fact that Frank-himself a defense
attorney-maintained his mother's innocent to the end. How does a
young girl process such a crime along with the fear and disbelieve
that rocked an entire community? Decades later, Larkin is
determined to revisit the case and bring the story of Olga herself
to light. Long overshadowed by the sensationalism and scandal of
Elizabeth and Frank, A Lovely Girl seeks to reveal Olga as a woman
in full. Someone who was more than the twisted family that would
ultimately ensnare her. As we follow the heart-pounding drama of
the case through Larkin's young eyes-her father was the court
reporter-A Lovely Girl is by turns page-turning yet poingnant, and
makes the reader reexamine how we handle fear, how we regard mental
illness, and how we understand family as we carve our own path in a
dangerous world.
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