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Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read
it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he's a
national treasure.' Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe's work has
garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the
National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in
the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on
the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen
of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe says
in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations:
crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane
separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power
of denial.' Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging
$150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared
to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist,
spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest
to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant,
and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the
'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary
journalism. The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is
always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can
see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait
of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against
them.
Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces
of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once
home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down
the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially
charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings.
She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of
its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the
careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere
after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten
Thousand Lakes.
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11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen's bankers, Coutts
& Co, sent two cashier's cheques to the law firm of Urie Walsh
in San Francisco with the wrong address on the envelope (11 Oak
Street instead of 1111 Oak Street), setting off a chain of events
that led to the abduction of a three-year-old child from Bristol,
England, to San Francisco, California. It is a horrifying story of
greed, ineptness, corruption, stupidity and wasted years as the
father tries to seek justice and access to his son in the midst of
a thirteen-year nightmare that even Kafka could not have thought
up. If you want to read about the seven California lawyers involved
in this story who either went to jail, were disbarred, or resigned
with charges pending, and inept judges who broke all the rules or
were disciplined, this is the book for you. This is a story that
would never have happened if those concerned had fulfilled their
duties correctly and not broken the law. If Graham Cook, the
author, had known then what he knows now, there would have been no
story and he would not have gone bankrupt, become homeless or,
through the actions of his own brother, ended up in a California
jail. This is the book the California Judges Association refused to
let the author promote to its members, since it reveals in detail
the judicial abuse by some of their past and present members whose
conduct will shock and disgust any right- minded person. The best
way to describe this book is that everything that could go wrong
went and if the internet was around at the start of the nightmare
most of what went on in this book would not have happened.This is a
book where certain people have gone to extraordinary lengths to
stop people buying and have dismally failed in their objective.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Crime investigation is not always a matter of gathering hard
evidence. Just as police officers sometimes follow a "hunch",
people with psychic abilities have often supplied invaluable leads
to help crack the most baffling cases. Through dreams, visions,
telepathy, and a host of other means, psychics have also predicted
and tried to prevent many serious crimes. Psychic Detectives allows
you to enter their world, revealing their astounding experiences
and the often heavy price they pay for sharing what they know.
Police agencies are generally reluctant to admit to the use of
psychics during or even after the completion of an investigation
for fear of ridicule from the public and other members of the law
enforcement community. Despite this, psychics have often become
involved in a large number of highly publicised investigations into
serial murders conducted over the last 20 years or more. Featured
cases include: the Kennedy assassinations * Jack the Ripper *
Charles Manson murders * Uri Geller's diamond find * David
Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") * Los Angeles Olympic Games bombing *
Moors murders * Peter Sutcliffe ("The Yorkshire Ripper") * IRA
bombing, Manchester * disappearance of Lord Lucan * Patty Hearst
kidnapping * and many more ...
* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY * The compelling and moving memoir of
forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding
"This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is
so much fun...the most thrilling experience..." This shocking true
crime classic is now a major movie. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's
pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with
mocking notes telling where he would strike next. The official
tally of his victims was six. He claimed 37 dead. He was never
caught. Author Robert Graysmith tells the inside story of the hunt
for the hooded killer, and finally reveals his possible true
identity. The new movie "Zodiac" is based on this book. Directed by
David Fincher ("Fight Club"), it stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Graysmith
himself, Robert Downey Jr and Chloe Sevigny.
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