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The Family Debt - The True Story of Giacomo Jack Bianco (Hardcover): Teresa Bianco The Family Debt - The True Story of Giacomo Jack Bianco (Hardcover)
Teresa Bianco
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Family Debt" is a tribute to the author's father, Giacomo "Jack" Bianco. He was a man who lived his life with passion for his family, a man who worked hard at everything he did. His unselfish nature was exposed year after year, experience after experience. Giacomo was undoubtedly a family man who never let his family down; no matter the cost.

Never asking questions, he simply chose to rise to the occasion time after time to preserve the integrity of his family and to protect his personal and business interests. He didn't make excuses, he simply delivered what was required, when it was required.

Then suddenly one day the core of the family was taken forever; his life was extinguished. Over time, more questions surfaced, but unfortunately no answers or explanations. Did he know how steep the price would be to protect his family?

The detectives and investigators, they were simply told to "shelve the investigation." This happened only three days after this horrible murder, a file never to be opened again. Almost forty years later the same questions still pierce the silence once filled by a father's voice. His family's thoughts are finally revealed and shared for the first time.

Trials and Tribulations - Jake Ross, P.I. Journey to Justice (Hardcover): Jake Ross Trials and Tribulations - Jake Ross, P.I. Journey to Justice (Hardcover)
Jake Ross
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Pristine Suicide (Hardcover): Bart J. Allen A Pristine Suicide (Hardcover)
Bart J. Allen
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Squarely in the heart of America, Salina, Kansas is a pretty safe place to have kids. At least, that's what they say. But some places in Kansas are safer than others. The Allens found out the hard way. In the case of the death of their oldest son, seventeen-year-old Destry Greer Allen, they did what nobody else would do to find out the truth about what really happened to him that late night in June of 2004. Originally ruled a textbook suicide, an independent investigation by the Allens discovered it was anything but. Seven years later, Destry's case is still open - an unsolved suicide. What happens when the system intended to protect citizens at the most vulnerable times in their lives not only turns its back, but goes out of its way to wrong them? What happens when the professionals, who citizens trust and depend on to take care of them, go after them instead, to teach them a lesson? The Allens found out.

A Certain Arrogance - U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold... A Certain Arrogance - U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold War -And the Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald (Hardcover)
George Michael Evica
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles and their manipulation of religious groups and individuals to achieve U.S. elitist goals, on the development of U.S. psychological warfare operations, and on the sacrifice of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
American Spymaster Allen Dulles, based in Switzerland, had abused religious (largely Protestant) individuals and institutions for U.S. intelligence through two World Wars and the subsequent "Cold War." His brother John Foster Dulles also used major religious groups (again, largely Protestant) from 1937 through 1959 to further both his own and the American establishment's political and economic goals.
One religious individual, Noel Field (American Quaker, Unitarian, and Marxist) was used by Allen Dulles to manipulate religious relief organizations in World War II and in the post war period. Dulles finally utilized Field to help destabilize Communist Eastern Europe. Dulles apparently collaborated in this plan with Jozef Swiatlo, a Communist/CIA double agent, who later surfaced in the Warren Commission's Kennedy assassination investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Swiss based Albert Schweitzer College had major religious origins that were both social and political. Post war liberal Protestant movements in Europe, including the International Association for Religious Freedom, helped to create the college in Switzerland, the country at the center of Allen Dulles' fifty year spy program. In the United States, the college was supported by a powerful coalition of American religious liberalism, primarily the Unitarian Church, the Unitarian Service Committee, and the American Friends of Albert Schweitzer College.
Albert Schweitzer College's history strongly suggests that American espionage assets helped establish the college and then used it, possibly with the knowledge and even cooperation of some of its religious supporters in the Unitarian Church movement and those who worked for the college in Switzerland. One leading Unitarian who worked closely with both U.S. intelligence and the military in the '40s and '50s was President of the American Friends of Albert Schweitzer College, exactly when Lee Harvey Oswald applied. That same intelligence connected Unitarian worked with a second influential Unitarian to help control U.S. space programs, including the U 2 overflights, and in the '60s, that intelligence connected Unitarian fronted for a major CIA proprietary. Those who set policy for Albert Schweitzer College were, therefore, elite members of the establishment and allies of the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald registered to attend Albert Schweitzer College and therefore became a direct link between the college and American intelligence.
Whoever masterminded the Oswald college action was knowledgeable about both the OSS's and the CIA's use of Quakers, officials of the World Council of Churchs, and Unitarians as contacts, assets, and informants (often as double agents) AND about the FBI's responsibility in tracking down and identifying Soviet illegals and double agents. Oswald was, therefore, a creature of someone in American counterintelligence who possessed precisely that double body of knowledge.
At the same time that Albert Schweitzer College was extending its international recruiting effort, both the Soviet and American Illegals and False Identity programs were operating. For those espionage groups, Lee Harvey Oswald initially looked like a candidate for their intelligence operations. But Oswald was a stunningly imperfect False Identity/Illegals prospect. A faulty False Identity operation had apparently been carried out using Lee Harvey Oswald and run by a branch of American intelligence.
Oswald's imperfections were certain to trip counterespionage a

Vengeance (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.): G W Mullins Vengeance (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.)
G W Mullins
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. VI by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, True Crime, Literary Collections (Hardcover): Alexandre Dumas Celebrated Crimes, Vol. VI by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, True Crime, Literary Collections (Hardcover)
Alexandre Dumas
R901 R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Save R101 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and so many sequels, all but invented the action adventure novel, and certainly he has few peers in all the years since. His stories are thrilling works of derring-do, foul deeds, close escapes, and glorious victories. In this sixth volume of Dumas's Celebrated Crimes contains, among other material, the famous Man in the Iron Mask. This unsolved puzzle of history was later incorporated by Dumas in one of the D'Artagnan Romances a section of the Vicomte de Bragelonne, to which it gave its name. But in this later form, the true story of this singular man doomed to wear an iron visor over his features during his entire lifetime could only be treated episodically. While as a special subject in the Crimes, Dumas indulges his curiosity, and that of his reader, to the full. Hugo's unfinished tragedy, Les Jumeaux, is on the same subject; as also are others by Fournier, in French, and Zschokke, in German. This book was not written for children. Dumas has minced no words in describing the violent scenes of a violent time. in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader -- for whom the books are intended -- will recognize and allow for this fact.

Shocking Cases from Dr Henry Lee's Forensic Files (Hardcover): Henry C Lee, Jerry Labriola Shocking Cases from Dr Henry Lee's Forensic Files (Hardcover)
Henry C Lee, Jerry Labriola
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Dr. Henry C. Lee is highly regarded throughout the law-enforcement community as one of the most talented and experienced forensic scientists in the world. He has also received widespread public recognition and media attention through his association with sensational criminal investigations, including the JFK assassination, the suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, the Chandra Levy homicide, the O.J. Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey cases, and, most recently, the Caylee Anthony case. In this new book, Dr. Lee and critically acclaimed mystery writer Jerry Labriola, MD, team up again to present another true-crime page-turner on five notorious incidents:
- The Phil Spector case: Legendary music mogul Phil Spector was charged with murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson, found slain in his mansion. But has Dr. Lee produced forensic evidence suggesting her death was a suicide?
- The Brown's Chicken massacre: The savage murder of helpless employees of a restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, was left unsolved for over a decade until the painstaking forensic skills of Task Force and Dr. Lee eventually identified the killers.
- Murder in the Sacristy: The brutal murder of a nun in a Toledo, Ohio, church had bizarre ritualistic overtones and remained unsolved until a priest was prosecuted twenty-six years later--the same priest who had conducted the nun's funeral service Dr. Lee testified at the trial of the priest and here he demonstrates how the perseverance of law enforcement officials and forensic scientists eventually solved the crime.
- The shooting of a Connecticut state trooper and the shooting death of a fourteen-year-old young man: Dr. Lee discusses the dual hazards of police work--being killed or injured in the line of duty and the accidental killing of innocent victims or suspects. In Hartford, while racial tensions threatened to spin out of control, Dr. Lee reconstructed the shooting of a young African American by a police officer. His diligent work defused hostilities that nearly led to a riot.
- Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Dr. Lee discusses his role in the excavation and, in some cases, the identification
of hundreds of bodies in the former Yugoslavia. The evidence he uncovered was later used to build a case against suspects indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal.
Combining fascinating details of forensic science with a vivid narrative, Shocking Cases from Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files is must reading for true-crime readers and forensic science lovers.

Below the Surface (Hardcover): Andrew B Louis Below the Surface (Hardcover)
Andrew B Louis
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Haunted by the Spirit (Hardcover): Raffaele J. Bibbo, Diane M. Marobella Haunted by the Spirit (Hardcover)
Raffaele J. Bibbo, Diane M. Marobella
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lucianity - The Perverse Religion of Christians (Hardcover): John Byer Lucianity - The Perverse Religion of Christians (Hardcover)
John Byer
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Happy Land - A Lover's Revenge - The nightclub fire that shocked a nation (Hardcover): Oj Modjeska Happy Land - A Lover's Revenge - The nightclub fire that shocked a nation (Hardcover)
Oj Modjeska
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Mindhunter - Inside the Fbi's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Paperback, Media Tie-In ed.): John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker Mindhunter - Inside the Fbi's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Paperback, Media Tie-In ed.)
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Murder, Inc (Hardcover): Burton B. Turkus, Sid Feder Murder, Inc (Hardcover)
Burton B. Turkus, Sid Feder; Foreword by Peter Lance
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
An Appetite for Crime - The Memoirs of Former Detective Superintendent Ron Chapman (Paperback): Ronald Chapman An Appetite for Crime - The Memoirs of Former Detective Superintendent Ron Chapman (Paperback)
Ronald Chapman
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in Balham, South London in 1940 Ron was destined to follow in his father's footsteps and become a painter and decorator. That was until a chance encounter with a young police cadet led him down a very different path. What followed was a very successful 30-year career in the Metropolitan Police and in this book Ron shares memories of his time in the Police force, giving us a real insight into old fashioned police work in the good old days. The story begins in April 1959 at St Ann's Road Tottenham and continues through the streets of London, taking the reader on a journey that is both reminiscent of those times, touched with humour and some personal memories of colleagues, friends and family. Published in loving memory.

Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, Billy the Kid's Most Feared Companion (Hardcover): David G. Thomas Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, Billy the Kid's Most Feared Companion (Hardcover)
David G. Thomas
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Gangland Boston - A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime (Paperback): Emily Sweeney Gangland Boston - A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime (Paperback)
Emily Sweeney
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A GUIDED TOUR OF BOSTON'S UNDERWORLD, REVEALING THE PLACES WHERE DEALS WERE MADE, PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND BODIES WERE BURIED Gangsters have played a shady role in shaping Greater Boston's history. While lurking in local restaurants or just around the corner inside that inconspicuous building, countless criminals have quietly made their mark on the city and surrounding communities. Packed with photos, Gangland Boston reveals the hidden history of these places, bringing readers back in time to when the North End was wrought with gun violence, Hanover Street was known as a "shooting gallery," and guys named King Solomon, Beano Breen, and Mickey the Wiseguy ruled the underworld. Drawing upon years of research and an extensive collection of rare photographs, author Emily Sweeney sheds light on how gang violence unfolded during Prohibition, how the Italian mafia rose to power, and how the Gustin Gang came to be. She also uncovers little-known facts about well-known crime figures (Did you know the leader of the Gustin Gang was an Olympic athlete? Or that a fellowship at a major university was named after a big-time bookie?) From South Boston to Somerville, Chinatown to Charlestown, and every neighborhood in between, readers will get to know mobsters in ways they never have before. Readers will find out: * Exact addresses where mobsters lived, worked, and played around Greater Boston * How an Olympic athlete became one of Boston's most notorious gangsters * The untold history of the Gustin Gang * Frank Sinatra's connection to a long-forgotten Massachusetts racetrack * Little-known facts about David "Beano" Breen, Charles "King" Solomon, Harry "Doc" Sagansky, Raymond L.S. Patriarca, and other legendary crime figures

Murder & Mayhem in Columbus, Ohio (Hardcover): Nellie Kampmann Murder & Mayhem in Columbus, Ohio (Hardcover)
Nellie Kampmann
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 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
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dealing with the Devil's Deal (Hardcover): L. Hurley Ankeny Dealing with the Devil's Deal (Hardcover)
L. Hurley Ankeny
R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hunter of the Damned - A walk through Hell (Hardcover): Kevin J Laws Hunter of the Damned - A walk through Hell (Hardcover)
Kevin J Laws
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Murder & Mayhem in Norton, Ohio (Hardcover): Lisa Ann Merrick Murder & Mayhem in Norton, Ohio (Hardcover)
Lisa Ann Merrick
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alligator Candy - A Memoir (Paperback): David Kushner Alligator Candy - A Memoir (Paperback)
David Kushner
R387 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime (Hardcover): Dana M. Olwan Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime (Hardcover)
Dana M. Olwan
R3,378 Discovery Miles 33 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Diary Of An On-call Girl - True Stories from the Front Line (Paperback, UK ed.): WPC E.E. Bloggs Diary Of An On-call Girl - True Stories from the Front Line (Paperback, UK ed.)
WPC E.E. Bloggs 2
R230 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R19 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

WPC Bloggs is a real-life Bridget Jones - with handcuffs, CS gas and sensible shoes. 'Diary of an On-Call Girl' offers an hilarious, insider's look at modern day policing - the first to be written by a serving woman officer - where days are spent dealing with bolshy teenagers, violent drunks and wolf-whistling yobs.

Someone Would Have Talked (Hardcover): Larry Hancock Someone Would Have Talked (Hardcover)
Larry Hancock
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hancock reveals startling discoveries about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy to mislead history.

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