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The Enigma (Hardcover): James Clemon, Gilles Monif The Enigma (Hardcover)
James Clemon, Gilles Monif
R612 R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback): Neil Samworth Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback)
Neil Samworth 1
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

North Carolina Moonshine - An Illicit History (Paperback): Frank Stephenson Jr Mulder North Carolina Moonshine - An Illicit History (Paperback)
Frank Stephenson Jr Mulder
R533 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Kentucky Legends and Lore (Hardcover): Alan Brown Kentucky Legends and Lore (Hardcover)
Alan Brown
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Real Prison Real Freedom (Hardcover): Rosser Mcdonald Real Prison Real Freedom (Hardcover)
Rosser Mcdonald
R746 R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Save R52 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Thrill Killer of Indy - Herb Baumeister, the I-70 Killer (Hardcover): Brian Lee Tucker The Thrill Killer of Indy - Herb Baumeister, the I-70 Killer (Hardcover)
Brian Lee Tucker
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Bogeyman - Stalking and Its Aftermath (Hardcover): Sherry L Meinberg The Bogeyman - Stalking and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
Sherry L Meinberg
R725 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
Principles of Interrogation (Hardcover): E. Anim-Danquah Principles of Interrogation (Hardcover)
E. Anim-Danquah
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Accidental Terrorist - Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary (Hardcover): William Shunn The Accidental Terrorist - Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary (Hardcover)
William Shunn
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
At the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy (Hardcover): Aubrey Rike At the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy (Hardcover)
Aubrey Rike; As told to Colin McSween; Contributions by David Lifton
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 - 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.

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company - A San Francisco Marijuana Empire (Hardcover): Brett Douglas The Golden Gate Smuggling Company - A San Francisco Marijuana Empire (Hardcover)
Brett Douglas
R597 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Juvenile Injustice - The Chicago Story (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Jeff Benjamin Juvenile Injustice - The Chicago Story (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Jeff Benjamin
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
South of the Mouth of Sandy (Hardcover): Christopher Terry Evans South of the Mouth of Sandy (Hardcover)
Christopher Terry Evans
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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.

Nurse Jack - True Hospital Stories, Hospital Covering up a Rape, Crime, Drug Abuse, Tragic Loss, and Comical Stories... Nurse Jack - True Hospital Stories, Hospital Covering up a Rape, Crime, Drug Abuse, Tragic Loss, and Comical Stories (Hardcover)
Jack S Houston
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Teddy Boy Wars - The Youth Cult that Shocked Britain (Paperback, UK ed.): Michael Macilwee The Teddy Boy Wars - The Youth Cult that Shocked Britain (Paperback, UK ed.)
Michael Macilwee
R263 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R23 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Girl in the Leaves (Paperback): Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard, Larry Maynard The Girl in the Leaves (Paperback)
Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard, Larry Maynard
R255 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R15 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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.

Stalking Billy the Kid (Hardcover) (Hardcover): Marc Simmons Stalking Billy the Kid (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Marc Simmons
R664 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"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.

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
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

Warden Force - Delta Ghosts and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 27-38 (Paperback): Terry Hodges Warden Force - Delta Ghosts and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 27-38 (Paperback)
Terry Hodges
R350 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BADGE - Volume II - More Stories from the Village of First Responders with Cops, Firefighters, Ems,... BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BADGE - Volume II - More Stories from the Village of First Responders with Cops, Firefighters, Ems, Dispatchers, Forensics, and Victim Advocates (Hardcover)
Donna Brown
R700 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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