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Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
"Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for
terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous
potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he
began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies
that threatened national security. But would the authorities back
him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age
detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly
gripping"" (Smithsonian).
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence
Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the
presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code
name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into
U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security
information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the
spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes,
satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that
finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an
international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
'John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative
profiling' Patricia Cornwell GET INSIDE THE MINDS OF PSYCHOPATHS
WITH THE GODFATHER OF CRIMINAL PROFILING In The Killer Across the
Table, legendary FBI criminal profiler and number one bestselling
author John Douglas delves deep into the lives and crimes of four
complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details
about his profiling process and divulging the strategies used to
crack some of his most challenging cases. In this riveting work of
true crime, Douglas spotlights four very different criminals he's
confronted over the course of his career, and explains how they
helped him to put together the puzzle of how psychopaths and
predators think. Taking us inside the interrogation room and
demonstrating the unique techniques he uses to understand the
workings of the most terrifying and incomprehensible minds, The
Killer Across the Table is an unputdownable journey into the
darkest reaches of criminal profiling and behavioural science from
a man who knows serial killers better than anyone else. As Douglas
says: 'If you want to understand the artist, look at his art.' If
you want to understand what makes a murderer, start here.
Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and
betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations.
2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition,
Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture
Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice,
controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is
spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant
"anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's
shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning
investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the
crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story,
he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who
was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of
this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the
anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield.
Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the
United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning
a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer
battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and
gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking
schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with
disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
As a follow up to the bestselling Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed (2010), Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored examines how organised crime, gangsters and powerful political figures have been able to capture the law enforcement authorities and agencies.
These various organisations have been eviscerated, hollowed out and left ineffective. They have been infiltrated and compromised and, as a result, prominent underworld figures have been able to flourish in South Africa, setting up elaborate networks of crime with the assistance of many cops.
The criminal justice system has been left exposed and it is crucial that the South African public knows about the capture that has occurred on different levels.
It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee
headquarters in Washington DC, on 17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a
journalist for the Washington Post, was called into the office on a
Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a political
reporter on the Post, was also assigned. They soon learned this was
no ordinary burglary. Following lead after lead, Woodward and
Bernstein picked up a trail of money, conspiracy and high-level
pressure that ultimately led to the doors of the Oval Office. Men
very close to the President were implicated, and then Richard Nixon
himself. Over a period of months, Woodward met secretly with Deep
Throat, for decades the most famous anonymous source in the history
of journalism. As he and Bernstein pieced the jigsaw together, they
produced a series of explosive stories that would not only win the
Post a Pulitzer Prize, they would bring about the President's
scandalous downfall. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN documents this amazing
story. Taut, gripping and fascinating, it is a classic of its kind
-- the true story of the events that changed the American
presidency.
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