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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO,
PRODUCED BY LEONARDO DICAPRIO. Cuba, 1961. A failed invasion at The
Bay of Pigs results in Fidel Castro tightening his hold over Cuba.
Jose Miguel Battle Sr., a former cop and member of the
counter-revolutionary group intent on overthrowing him, is
captured. Miami, 1962. Jose Miguel Battle Sr. travels to the USA,
chased from the island by revolution, and is renamed The Godfather.
A 2,500 strong Cuban-American criminal alliance is established.
Known on both sides of the law as 'The Corporation', its powerful
members were fellow outcasts and enemies of Castro. A hero to many
Cuban-Americans, The Godfather created a unit of trusted men who
fought alongside him to reclaim their nation from the Marxist
dictator. Gaining money, power and inluence by running gambling
rackets, money- laundering, drug tra?cking and murder, The
Corporation never gave up the dream of killing Castro and
reclaiming their homeland. This explosive biography reveals how an
entire generation of political exiles, refugees, racketeers,
corrupt cops, hitmen (and their wives and girlfriends) became
caught up in this violent desire, and built a criminal empire
surviving over 40 years. An epic tale of gangsters, drugs and
violence, learn how The Corporation grew into one of the USA's most
sordid and deadly organisations.
It's different when it's your daughter. DI Gravel's daughter Emily
has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles
Turner. But the job turns deadly when she attracts the attention of
a serial killer. Gravel is already on the case, the bodies are
piling up and the killer's sick fantasies are enough to give the
detective nightmares. However, the killer's obsession with Emily
raises the stakes. Can Gravel and Emily survive the case? This is
the third book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as A Cold Cold Heart*
He's inside her home. Successful novelist Mia is being stalked.
Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable
emails that demand Mia perform various tasks or else . . .
Terrified, Mia tries to escape, but the killer follows her all the
way to Italy. In desperation, she returns home, but nowhere is
safe. Meanwhile, DI Gravel is investigating the murder of three
women. The detective's last case pushed him to new extremes. Now
with his health failing and his career at an end, what lengths will
Gravel go to in order to catch a vicious killer? Once you've
crossed the line, can you ever turn back? This is the fourth book
in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime thriller series set
in the stunning West Wales countryside. *Previously published as
Every Move You Make*
It's different when it's your daughter. DI Gravel's daughter Emily
has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles
Turner. But the job turns deadly when she attracts the attention of
a serial killer. Gravel is already on the case, the bodies are
piling up and the killer's sick fantasies are enough to give the
detective nightmares. However, the killer's obsession with Emily
raises the stakes. Can Gravel and Emily survive the case? This is
the third book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as A Cold Cold Heart*
FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE HIDDEN TRUTHS, WHICH IS SHORTLISTED FOR
THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD AND WON THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE '(a)
meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major
crime and its effect on the affected families and investigating
officers both. Set in Edinburgh, too' - Ian Rankin 'Askew asks
intricate moral questions, while never ignoring the rigours of
crime' - Daily Mail DI Helen Birch faces a terrible choice - family
or justice? - in the gripping second novel from the author of All
the Hidden Truths DI Birch joined the police to find her little
brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen
again. She stayed to help others, determined to seek justice where
she could. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie's
disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland's most
feared criminal organisations. It's a good day's work - a chance to
get a dangerous man off the streets. Two days later, Charlie comes
back. It's not a coincidence. When Birch finds out exactly what
he's been doing all those years, she faces a terrible choice: save
the case, or save her brother. But how can you do the right thing
when all the consequences are bad? As she interrogates Charlie, he
tells his story: of how one wrong turn leads to a world in which
the normal rules no longer apply, and you do what you must to
survive. From one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime
fiction, What You Pay For is a brilliantly tense and moving novel
about the terrible disruption caused by violence and the lines
people will cross to protect those they love..
'Oliver Harris is an outstanding writer... he combines violence and
romance, a sense of place and humour, in the same exciting way as,
for example, Michael Connelly' The Times 'An intelligent,
brilliantly plotted and paced thriller...If you need to feed your
Mick Herron habit, Oliver Harris could be just the fix' Irish Times
'One of our finest thriller writers' Evening Standard 'Oliver
Harris is always pure quality' Ian Rankin Nick Belsey's on the run.
Touching down in Mexico City, he doesn't have much in the way of
funds, but he has a new continent and surely that's enough to start
afresh. But it's not as easy as that. An idyllic interlude in a
coastal village is interrupted when men turn up who seem to know
exactly who he is. And they have some very urgent questions. DI
Kirsty Craik had also hoped she'd left Nick Belsey behind her, in
the wilder days of her career. When a five am call instructs her to
track him down or she'll be dead by Christmas, it seems he's walked
back into her life with characteristic commotion. Craik is forced
to break the rules once more to find out what her former lover is
up to. She needs to save herself, and, just maybe, to save Belsey
too.
'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.'
Bestselling author Kerry KayaBold, daring and ruthless, Tony
Lambrianu is now the main player in London's sleazy but lucrative
underworld. As the boss of a high-end nightclub in the West End and
with a never-ending string of gorgeous women on his arm, Tony is
the darling of the tabloids. However, despite his success, the
little boy who lived on the streets is never far away. Desperate
for respect, he's driven to achieve more and more. Most of all, he
craves the acceptance of Ralph Gold and to become a bigger part of
his extensive web of organised crime. Fearlessly facing up to
enemies, winning battles and becoming the undisputed boss of the
London underworld can be a nasty business, but it's the only
business Tony knows. And he'll stop at nothing to succeed! Please
note, this is a re-release of Nasty Business previously published
by Gillian Godden
Is it revenge or is it justice? DI Gravel is supposed to be on
mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary
beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he's shocked when
the case leads him to the victim from an old case Seventeen years
ago, the system failed Rebecca. They let the abuser of a
six-year-old girl walk free. But she's all grown up now and taking
the law into her own hands. Is this one killer DI Gravel doesn't
want to catch? This is the second book in the dark,
edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime thriller series set in the
stunning West Wales countryside. *Previously published as Before I
Met Him*
Is it revenge or is it justice? DI Gravel is supposed to be on
mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary
beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he's shocked when
the case leads him to the victim from an old case Seventeen years
ago, the system failed Rebecca. They let the abuser of a
six-year-old girl walk free. But she's all grown up now and taking
the law into her own hands. Is this one killer DI Gravel doesn't
want to catch? This is the second book in the dark,
edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime thriller series set in the
stunning West Wales countryside. *Previously published as Before I
Met Him*
One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out. When
nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective
Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing
person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's
inquiries lead him to the graves of five young women - each of whom
looks just like Emma. With a serial killer on the loose and his
latest victim already in his control, can the police find Emma in
time? Or will Emma have to save herself? The Carmarthen Murders is
the first book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as Portraits of the Dead*
The brand new instalment in Frances Evesham's bestselling Ham Hill
Murder Mysteries!One unexplained disappearance is strange, but two
are sinister. In Lower Hembrow, an idyllic village nestled beneath
Ham Hill in Somerset, the villagers are preparing to enjoy the
autumn traditions of the rural English countryside until Joe
Trevillion, a curmudgeonly local farmer and the father of six
children, vanishes. When Adam Hennessy, the ex-detective proprietor
of The Plough, the village's popular Inn, investigates, he finds
ominous undercurrents beneath apparently harmless rumour and
gossip. Meanwhile, a vicious campaign of vindictiveness forces Adam
and his three amateur sleuth friends to dig deep into the secret
lives of their neighbours to expose the source of a cruel vendetta
and prevent another death. As they uncover the disturbing truth,
the friends learn they must also lay their own past lives to rest
before they can hope to make their dreams for the future come true.
A brand new cosy mystery series from the bestselling author of A
Village Murder, and A Racing Murder perfect for fans of Faith
Martin, Betty Rowlands and M.C. Beaton. Other Books in the Ham Hill
Murder Mystery series by Frances Evesham A Village Murder A Racing
Murder Also by Frances Evesham - The Exham-on-Sea Murder Mystery
Series Murder at the Lighthouse Murder on the Levels Murder on the
Tor Murder at the Cathedral Murder at the Bridge Murder at the
Castle Murder at the Gorge Murder at the Abbey
'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.'
Bestselling author Kerry KayaBold, daring and ruthless, Tony
Lambrianu is now the main player in London's sleazy but lucrative
underworld. As the boss of a high-end nightclub in the West End and
with a never-ending string of gorgeous women on his arm, Tony is
the darling of the tabloids. However, despite his success, the
little boy who lived on the streets is never far away. Desperate
for respect, he's driven to achieve more and more. Most of all, he
craves the acceptance of Ralph Gold and to become a bigger part of
his extensive web of organised crime. Fearlessly facing up to
enemies, winning battles and becoming the undisputed boss of the
London underworld can be a nasty business, but it's the only
business Tony knows. And he'll stop at nothing to succeed! Please
note, this is a re-release of Nasty Business previously published
by Gillian Godden
Cybercrime and Espionage provides a comprehensive analysis of the
sophisticated patterns and subversive multi-vector threats (SMTs)
associated with modern cybercrime, cyber terrorism, cyber warfare
and cyber espionage. Whether the goal is to acquire and
subsequently sell intellectual property from one organization to a
competitor or the international black markets, to compromise
financial data and systems, or undermine the security posture of a
nation state by another nation state or sub-national entity, SMTs
are real and growing at an alarming pace. This book contains a
wealth of knowledge related to the realities seen in the execution
of advanced attacks, their success from the perspective of
exploitation and their presence within all industry. It will
educate readers on the realities of advanced, next generation
threats, which take form in a variety ways. This book consists of
12 chapters covering a variety of topics such as the maturity of
communications systems and the emergence of advanced web
technology; how regulatory compliance has worsened the state of
information security; the convergence of physical and logical
security; asymmetric forms of gathering information; seven
commonalities of SMTs; examples of compromise and presence of SMTs;
next generation techniques and tools for avoidance and obfuscation;
and next generation techniques and tools for detection,
identification and analysis. This book will appeal to information
and physical security professionals as well as those in the
intelligence community and federal and municipal law enforcement,
auditors, forensic analysts, and CIO/CSO/CISO.
You can see them, but you don't know them. Ultras are football fans
like no others. A hugely visible and controversial part of the
global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every
league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme fandom and
politics is also one of the largest youth movements in the world.
Yet they remain unknown: an anti-establishment force that is
transforming both football and politics. In this book, James
Montague goes underground to uncover the true face of this
dissident force for the first time. 1312: Among the Ultras tells
the story of how the movement began and how it grew to become the
global phenomenon that now dominates the stadiums from the Balkans
and Buenos Aires. With unprecedented insider access, the book
investigates how ultras have grown into a fiercely political
movement, embracing extremes on both the left and right; fighting
against the commercialisation of football and society - and against
the attempts to control them by the authorities, who both covet and
fear their power.
Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of
efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A
striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement
agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates
have joined forces in this campaign, this book reveals how these
collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This
book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting
domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between
punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and
nonstate authority.
'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.'
Bestselling author Kerry Kaya.Young, blonde, beautiful and bored,
Annette Lambrianu is tired of life on the family vineyard with her
husband and young son, Antonias. Yearning for excitement, she flees
in the night with the small boy, swapping the safety of Italy for
the dangerous streets of London. But she quickly discovers the
streets are not paved with gold... Since that fateful night,
fighting for survival is all Antonias Lambrianu has ever known.
Life on the streets is hard and Antonius sets his sights on a
better future - where money is power, but danger is everywhere.
Antonias is determined he will emerge triumphant, but the stakes
are high. Everyone, it seems, is playing dangerous games ...
Antonias most of all. But who will be the ultimate winner?
Dangerous Games is the origin story of gangster Tony Lambrianu.
Please note, this is a re-release of Dangerous Games, previously
published by Gillian Godden.
Your worst nightmare is about to come true... When Megan discovers
that her young daughter is missing, she thinks that her ex-husband
is to blame. But was it someone else entirely? Someone out for
revenge? Someone with a grudge? As DI Laura Kesey begins her
investigation, she discovers that the case is infinitely more
wicked than she could ever have imagined. The clock is ticking. But
will Kesey find Lottie before it's too late? It's every parent's
worst nightmare. The greater the evil, the deadlier the game.
*Please note this is a re-release of Mr Nice*
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