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9-1-1 What is Your Emergency? (Hardcover): Lucia -. Retired Dispatcher #160 9-1-1 What is Your Emergency? (Hardcover)
Lucia -. Retired Dispatcher #160
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book contains actual 911 emergency and non-emergency calls that came into the San Diego Police Department Communications Division during my 19 years as a Police 911 Dispatcher. This book represents the calls received as accurately as possible. I did not embellish them to make the calls funnier or more exciting. These are actual calls, often unbelievable, but they are real calls. This book is a way for me to portray the "real world" of a 911 dispatcher. As you read through the book, I hope you can get a sense of the many emotions that I felt during the course of my shift. The Dark Side is the chapter I devoted to the more serious, violent type of calls we get on a daily basis. I hope you enjoy the book.

For the Love of Family - How a Knock on the Door Changed Everything (Hardcover): Kevin C Mccall For the Love of Family - How a Knock on the Door Changed Everything (Hardcover)
Kevin C Mccall
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mothermelters - The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide (Hardcover): Alan Kunzman Mothermelters - The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide (Hardcover)
Alan Kunzman; As told to Paul Nieto
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oklahoma Scoundrels - History's Most Notorious Outlaws, Bandits & Gangsters (Paperback): Robert B. Smith, Laurence J. Yadon Oklahoma Scoundrels - History's Most Notorious Outlaws, Bandits & Gangsters (Paperback)
Robert B. Smith, Laurence J. Yadon
R578 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
85 Grams - The Story of Art Williams - Drug Czar (Hardcover): Daryl Ashby 85 Grams - The Story of Art Williams - Drug Czar (Hardcover)
Daryl Ashby
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicked New Orleans - The Dark Side of the Big Easy (Paperback): Troy Taylor Wicked New Orleans - The Dark Side of the Big Easy (Paperback)
Troy Taylor
R491 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was also considered one of the country's most dangerious cities, with a reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and over one-third of today's French Quarter was considered a hotbed of sin. Tales in this volume of streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prositute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later wass awarde her inheritance. Troy Taylor takes a look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic crimes" --Back cover.

True Justice (Hardcover): Ella "Hutton" Huddleston True Justice (Hardcover)
Ella "Hutton" Huddleston
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Five firefighters took off running for cover behind the fire engine and the other gold/black trailer, a few closed their eyes as they ran blindly into the darkness with flames chasing behind them saying one prayer that seems to come to mind at a time like this.... "Our Father Who..."

Kill Now, Talk Forever - Debating Sacco and Vanzetti (Hardcover): Richard Newby Kill Now, Talk Forever - Debating Sacco and Vanzetti (Hardcover)
Richard Newby
R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Principally an abridgement of the transcript of the trial as published in: The Sacco-Vanzetti case. 2nd ed. Mamaroneck, N.Y.: P. P. Appel, 1969; followed by a collection of remarks over the past 80 years about the trial and its significance.

Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri - Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice (Paperback): John Simonson Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri - Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice (Paperback)
John Simonson
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mueller Report (Hardcover, Redacted Version ed.): Robert S Mueller The Mueller Report (Hardcover, Redacted Version ed.)
Robert S Mueller
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Untying the Knot - John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three (Hardcover): Greg Day Untying the Knot - John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three (Hardcover)
Greg Day
R783 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies were discovered in a drainage ditch less than a mile away.

After a troublesome confession, three local teenagers, later dubbed the "West Memphis Three," were arrested, tried, and convicted in early 1994. Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley received life sentences, while ringleader Damien Echols went to death row. Three years later, the documentary film "Paradise Lost" premiered on HBO, and the effect on viewers was dramatic. Many became skeptical of the verdicts and also felt one of the fathers of the victims was a better suspect-John Mark Byers.

In "Untying the Knot," author Greg Day tells the true story of John Mark Byers and the about-face he made to free the men convicted of the crime. Day exposes the propaganda campaign used to convince a gullible public that Byers was complicit in the deaths of his wife and son. Based on court transcripts and hours of personal interviews, "Untying the Knot" explores all the case evidence while interweaving dialogues and statements. It traces the life of Byers from his roots in rural Arkansas, to his son's murder and the death of his wife, to his ultimate imprisonment in 1999. It reveals a man redeemed by prison and whose change of heart changed his life.

"Day has captured the essence of a towering personality engulfed by an impossible situation. John Mark Byers is an immensely complex character, and Untying the Knot pulls no punches in revealing the man in all his seeming contradictions."

-John Douglas, "Mindhunter"

To Defy the Monster (Hardcover): Albert Arthur Allison To Defy the Monster (Hardcover)
Albert Arthur Allison
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

July 8, 1932, 11 PM. East Austin, an African-American district in Jim Crow Texas. Sixty-year-old Charles Johnson is driving home from Bible study when a car full of young white men swerves in front of him. A brief altercation ensues. Convinced that his life is threatened, Johnson fires his pistol and drives away. Johnson's shot kills the unarmed, eighteen-year-old son of Albert Allison, a prominent cotton landlord, influential in politics, and an advocate for racial justice. Although devastated, Allison personally thwarts a lynch mob and then insists that Austin's courts treat Johnson fairly. Nonetheless, Allison expects fairness to execute his son's killer. Johnson himself expects to be lynched, either by the mob or by the court. "To Defy the Monster" shows how the confluence of unique cultural and historical factors determines Johnson's fate and why Allison orders his family never to speak of the matter.

American Sons - The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman (40th Anniversary Edition) (Hardcover, Expanded Content ed.):... American Sons - The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman (40th Anniversary Edition) (Hardcover, Expanded Content ed.)
Cait Boyce, Vince Font, Christopher Boyce
R900 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vengeance (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.): G W Mullins Vengeance (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.)
G W Mullins
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Below the Surface (Hardcover): Andrew B Louis Below the Surface (Hardcover)
Andrew B Louis
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder & Mayhem in Dayton and the Miami Valley (Hardcover): Sara Kaushal Murder & Mayhem in Dayton and the Miami Valley (Hardcover)
Sara Kaushal
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Chicago to Springfield - Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Hardcover): Jim Ridings Chicago to Springfield - Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Hardcover)
Jim Ridings
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Under Every Rock (Hardcover): Mark Eibert Under Every Rock (Hardcover)
Mark Eibert
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everyday Murders - Trials on Two Coasts Told by the Prosecutor (Hardcover): Hugh Anthony Levine Everyday Murders - Trials on Two Coasts Told by the Prosecutor (Hardcover)
Hugh Anthony Levine
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Liar (Hardcover): Rebecca Grayson Liar (Hardcover)
Rebecca Grayson
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Evil In Paradise - The Triumph of Faith & Love Over Greed & Power (Hardcover): Renee Rose Relf Evil In Paradise - The Triumph of Faith & Love Over Greed & Power (Hardcover)
Renee Rose Relf
R792 R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Save R89 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Peter and I stared at each other, digesting the shocking news. What was this misguided loose cannon of a prosecutor doing? Would he really take the risk of ruining our lives without any evidence of a crime? The answer was obviously yes.The thought of being arrested! The very idea pierced my heart. My mind raced at hyper speed. I had never committed a single criminal act. I was a wife, a mother, and a hard-working professional in the field of real estate development. After many years of faithful service, my bosses, Peter Durkee and Jack Wood, made me an equity partner in Durkee Development Group, a developer of golf course communities in Naples. Now I was being accused of being a partner in crime, a corrupt individual, an influence peddler, who had sought to bring illegal pressure on government authorities with respect to a golf course development called Colisseum Golf.My life had just spun totally out of control."

Dead in the Water - Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry (Paperback, Main): Matthew Campbell, Kit... Dead in the Water - Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry (Paperback, Main)
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. ***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** A Financial Times, The Times and The Economist Book of the Year 'Gripping... A startling tale of fraud and impunity. ' The Economist 'I read it in one sitting, and I know it'll stay with me for a long time.' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland Inside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and murder In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd's of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. Soon after his inspection, he was murdered. Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international shipping, an old-world industry at the backbone of our global economy. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived the hijacking - from members of the ship's crew and witnesses to the attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett's murder - award-winning reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.

Mobster - It's Not Just a Game (Hardcover): Nelson Rodriguez Mobster - It's Not Just a Game (Hardcover)
Nelson Rodriguez
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this story based on true events, author Nelson Rodriguez explores the effects of an online game called Mobster on its players. Rodriguez examines how people interact with others when they are involved-or even obsessed-with online gaming, delving into the relationships that are built through the game-sometimes with others who live a completely different part of the world For Sam, the game Mobster became an extremely personal and real experience; he began acting out his crimes in real life, without giving any thought to the law or the lines that he was crossing. To "win," he did everything in his power, regardless of the consequence-making bribes and intimidating anyone he perceived was in his way. But would he take to ultimate step and actually kill someone? Mark was committed to his job as a police officer, and so he never imagined that one day he would have to engage in the very acts that he had sworn to fight. It seemed that destiny had a different path for him-a life he never imagined for himself. Despite their strong personal relationships, once these players get caught up in the game, all that matters to them is the game-and everything they cared about before is in jeopardy.

Was Justice Served? - For the Brutal Murder of Former TIME Magazine Writer/Reporter Julie R. Grace (Hardcover): Ruth Grace Was Justice Served? - For the Brutal Murder of Former TIME Magazine Writer/Reporter Julie R. Grace (Hardcover)
Ruth Grace; Nancy Hoffman
R758 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During her career, Julie Grace worked for several political icons, including Paul Simon, Alan Dixon, Joseph Kennedy, Walter Mondale, and Jimmy Carter. In 1991, she accepted a job with "TIME" magazine, where she specialized in social issues and was touted as one of "TIME"'s best human drama reporters.

Although Julie appeared to have a solid career, her world began to crumble when the stresses of her job became more than she could handle. In order to cope, she turned to alcohol. Eventually her addiction cost her the job. It was then that she sought help in an alcohol rehabilitation program. There, she met George Thompson, and they soon developed an extremely close relationship.

Unfortunately, the relationship was rocky and George physically abused Julie on numerous occasions. Tragically, on May 20, 2003, the abuse ended when Julie died three days after one of their abusive encounters. George initially confessed to her murder but when his case went to trial, he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter rather than first degree homicide.

Ruth Grace, Julie's mother, was shocked. She blamed the Illinois judicial system for miscarriage of justice. Now, with the help of author Nancy Hoff man, she examines her daughter's case in detail. Read the witnesses testimonies and judge for yourself-"Was Justice Served?"

Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life. ... By Erasmus Darwin, ... The Second Edition, Corrected. of 2; Volume 1 (Hardcover):... Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life. ... By Erasmus Darwin, ... The Second Edition, Corrected. of 2; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Erasmus Darwin
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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