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The Enigma
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James Clemon, Gilles Monif
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This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly
funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's
most notorious jails. 'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places
and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and decency
shine through' - Jonathan Aitken ______________ Neil 'Sam' Samworth
spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester,
aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to
deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and
psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be
locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell
fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most
dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by
prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and
the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain's
prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job - the
suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many -
left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a
raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and
women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask
them to do. ______________ 'A frequently shocking read' - Daily
Express
Principles of Interrogation discusses the effective and efficient
application of professional attitudes and procedures in
Interrogation. It places much emphasis on the efficient planning of
Interrogation for the achievement of maximum best possible results,
focusing on National Security Issues.
While in Trauma Room 1, Dallas, Texas, Aubrey Rike found himself at
the center of an unparalleled time in history, and in doing so,
assumed the unscripted yet essential role of providing selfless and
heartfelt assistance to Jacqueline Kennedy.The emotional incident
Aubrey shares is at times heartbreaking, and brings unashamed tears
to his eyes as he relates those private moments with Mrs. Kennedy.
Now a poignant memory, Aubrey s experience also reveals some less
than admirable dynamics demonstrated as the result of the death of
an extraordinary leader. Sherry Fiester, Editor
"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.
The May 1927 issue of True Detective magazine dealt with the
shooting of Tommy Evans and subsequent investigation of the case in
the Old 23rd District of Henry County, Tennessee. The True
Detective article read in part, "They told me of the existence of a
'whiskey ring, ' in which it was estimated that seventy-five
percent of the population ... was alleged to have been engaged in
this illicit whiskey business. And it was contended that (Tommy
Evans), a respectable and law-abiding citizen, member of the
minority faction in the moonshine domain, had openly defied the
moonshiners - had became a crusader against them - and died a
martyr to the cause of his convictions. Thus the motive for the
assassination of (Evans) was apparent." The magazine article quoted
a Paris, Tenn., minister, J.H. Buchanan, as saying that, "There are
twelve men in this immediate section ready to stand for
'four-square for the right, ' and there are twenty-five men over
there, and I might be able to name them, who are banded together to
protect and promulgate the liquor interests. The remaining citizens
in this district are in the middle of the road - either in sympathy
with the devil's gang, or they lack the courage to say where they
stand." It was amid such a climate that this book is set. South of
the Mouth of Sandy focuses on the Evans family that settled near
the confluence of the Big Sandy and Tennessee rivers during the
middle part of the 19th century. It traces the ancestry of Tommy
Evans and tells the story of his death on a dirt road and the trial
of his killer.
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.
"Having written about New Mexico history for more than forty
years," explains the author, "it was perhaps inevitable that in
time I should publish a few articles on Billy the Kid. After all,
he is the one figure from this state's past whose name is known
around the world. The Kid's career, although astonishingly short,
nonetheless, left an indelible mark in the annals of the Old West.
And his name, William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, seems locked
forever into the consciousness of the starry-eyed public. "Upon
request," the author continues, "I was able to assemble a
collection of my varied writings pertaining to some of Billy's real
or imagined deeds. Each section opens a small window on an aspect
of his tumultuous life, or casts light upon others whose fortunes
intersected with his. In this book, I have stalked Billy in an
erratic rather than a systematic way, taking pleasure merely in
adding a few new and unusual fragments to his biography. I trust
that readers who have a fascination with the history and legend of
Billy the Kid will find in these pages something of interest and
value. As Eugene Cunningham wrote more than seventy years ago, 'in
our imagination the Kid still lives--the Kid still rides.'" Marc
Simmons is a professional author and historian who has published
more than forty books on New Mexico and the American Southwest. His
popular "Trail Dust" column is syndicated in several regional
newspapers. In 1993, King Juan Carlos of Spain admitted him to the
knightly Order of Isabel la Catolica for his contributions to
Spanish colonial history.
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 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
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