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Surviving A Diagnosis - Hope on the Other Side (Hardcover): K.A. Bryant Surviving A Diagnosis - Hope on the Other Side (Hardcover)
K.A. Bryant
R600 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Killer Prince 2021 - Why Was Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Murdered? (Paperback): Owen Wilson The Killer Prince 2021 - Why Was Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Murdered? (Paperback)
Owen Wilson
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In February 2021, Joe Biden released the CIA report that concluded the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia 'was responsible' for the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi secret service lured him into the Saudi diplomatic mission in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, dismembered him, and packed him into five suitcases. Crime writer Owen Wilson has forensically gathered all the known facts about the slaughter, what we know happened exactly, and what prompted the most demonic conspiracy of the twenty-first century. Chilling to the core and informative about Middle Eastern politics.

The Making of a Jamaican Don - Spanner's Views on Dons, Corrupt Politicians, and Public Officials (Hardcover): Clifton... The Making of a Jamaican Don - Spanner's Views on Dons, Corrupt Politicians, and Public Officials (Hardcover)
Clifton Cameron
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Jamaican dons see themselves as leaders, protectors, and nearly God-like figures. They see themselves as bigger than even the Prime Minister; with the resources they have, they are not afraid of anyone. In "The Making of a Jamaican Don," author Clifton Cameron tells the story of these Jamaican dons-their history, and the role they play in the governing of the Caribbean country.

This story is told through the eyes of Spanner and Trinity, two youths from rural Jamaica who leave their homes in Kitson Town and travel to Kingston for a better life. But here, their lives change in ways they could not have imagined. They find themselves embroiled in politics and the world of donship, eventually spending time in Jamaica's notorious General Penitentiary Prison.

A true account of tragedy and death, "The Making of a Jamaican Don" highlights the links between dons, guns, drugs, police, politicians, public officials, and corruption.

Bad Moon Rising - The Prom Night Murders Memoir (Hardcover): Ed Morrison Bad Moon Rising - The Prom Night Murders Memoir (Hardcover)
Ed Morrison; As told to Mindy Morrison
R1,057 R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Save R116 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Every Last Drop - How the Blood Industry Betrayed the Public Trust (Hardcover): George T. Baxter Esq. Every Last Drop - How the Blood Industry Betrayed the Public Trust (Hardcover)
George T. Baxter Esq.
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After barely making it through Rutgers Law School, George Baxter practiced law from his 1975 Oldsmobile, bouncing from court to court taking per diem work from any lawyer who would give it to him. Then he met Bill Snyder who desperately needed a lawyer because he'd been infected with AIDS from a transfusion he received during heart surgery. Racing against time and poorly financed, George began a six-year legal battle against the billion-dollar-a-year blood industry that infected his client- as well as 29,000 other people - with AIDS. EVERY LAST DROP is written in the first person as the plaintiff's lawyer in the landmark trial Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks. The trial exposed how the United States blood industry disseminated false information, hyjacked the FDA, and conspired to delay AIDS testing to save money, which resulted in the most devastating public health disaster in U.S. history. George's personal struggle surfaces throughout this narrative, alongside the stories of patients who suffered from AIDS but fought to stay alive for their exhausting trials. The case fueled a congressional investigation into dangerous blood industry practices and Federal Food And Drug Administration conflicts of interest that allowed this to happen. EVERY LAST DROP has a David and Goliath paradigm that centers on the universal themes of persistence, friendship, and the importance of trust over money, especially in the wake of a disaster. Dr. Donald P. Francis, formerly with the Centers for Disease Control AIDS Task Force and Dr. Marcus Conant, two of the country's leading Public health and AIDS experts, have written the introductions.

GEEZERS - Up Close and Personal: On Camp with the SAS (Hardcover): Monica Lavers GEEZERS - Up Close and Personal: On Camp with the SAS (Hardcover)
Monica Lavers
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"They call themselves geezers, or at least some of them do. The older ones don't seem to like the name..." The SAS is staffed by the toughest and most resourceful soldiers in the world - only the cream of the crop will get through the rigorous training programme to achieve their status as 'badged', rightly deserving their famous motto 'Who Dares Wins'. But who are they really? Monica Lavers spent three years working at Hereford garrison in support services, giving her a ringside view of how the SAS live, work and play. Getting to know them as people first, rather than by their fearsome reputation, she offers a behind-the scenes look at life on camp that is by turns frank, funny and compassionate. This book tells the stories of the soldier's lives as they were told to her - full frontal (sometimes literally) and no holds barred.

Mother Murder Meets Dr. Death! (Hardcover): Chase Kennedy Mother Murder Meets Dr. Death! (Hardcover)
Chase Kennedy
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Will You Listen Now? (Hardcover): Judith Hilton Will You Listen Now? (Hardcover)
Judith Hilton
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Broken - 2020: the year running records were rewritten (Paperback): Ally Beaven Broken - 2020: the year running records were rewritten (Paperback)
Ally Beaven
R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'The emotional pain of failing just felt like it was going to be a bit worse than the physical pain of carrying on ... ' Attempting to break long-distance running records used to be an underground endeavour, until the virus-stricken summer of 2020 came along. Only a few, such as the Bob Graham Round in the Lake District, had ever broken into mainstream consciousness. But an absence of running races thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented rise in the popularity of attempts at breaking these records. In Broken, Ally Beaven takes an entertaining look at just why 2020 was so unusual for long-distance running. With his interest in Fastest Known Times (FKTs) piqued, Beaven immerses himself in the scene. His summer becomes one of spending hours in the hills feeding, cajoling and generally trying to keep safe the runners he is supporting, as well as following the dots of live trackers in the middle of the night and endlessly refreshing his Twitter feed as records tumble around the country. Through the stories of John Kelly's epic Grand Round, Beth Pascall's record-shattering Bob Graham Round, Donnie Campbell's mind-bending new mark for bagging all 282 Munros, Jo Meek's new overall record for the Nigel Jenkins Dartmoor Round and many others, Beaven brings us an inside look at the incredible FKT machine. Broken is the story of the summer of 2020, a historic time for running in the UK.

The North American Boogeymen - Profiling the Scariest 21st Century Serial Killers (Hardcover): Robert L Rivera The North American Boogeymen - Profiling the Scariest 21st Century Serial Killers (Hardcover)
Robert L Rivera
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicked Women of Alabama (Hardcover): Jeremy W Gray Wicked Women of Alabama (Hardcover)
Jeremy W Gray
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Murder in a Child's Mind (Hardcover): Rita Marcoli The Murder in a Child's Mind (Hardcover)
Rita Marcoli
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Touching The Void (Paperback, Reissued [New Ed.]): Joe Simpson Touching The Void (Paperback, Reissued [New Ed.])
Joe Simpson
R311 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home.

Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.

Prison, Inc. - A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Hardcover, New): K.C. Carceral Prison, Inc. - A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Hardcover, New)
K.C. Carceral; Edited by Thomas J. Bernard
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, not much is known about how these facilities are run and whether or not they can effectively watch over this difficult and dangerous population. For the first time, Prison, Inc. provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an actual inmate, K.C. Carceral who has been in the prison system for over twenty years.

The Constance Fisher Tragedy (Hardcover): Bob Briggs The Constance Fisher Tragedy (Hardcover)
Bob Briggs
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On March 8, 1954, while battling post partum depression, a 24 year old Maine housewife drowned her three children in a bathtub before attempting suicide.

After spending only 5 years at the Augusta State Hospital, Constance Fisher was released from the institution. Her release marked the beginnings of a new era in the treatment of the mentally ill in America, as the nation moved to phase out the large state run mental hospitals.

On June 30, 1966, Constance Fisher again drowned her three children in a bathtub in what has been called the most bizarre murder story in the history of New England.

The incident was foretelling of another American tragedy; the plight of the acutely mentally ill with no facility left to properly care for them.

Mole (Hardcover): Joseph Clarke Mole (Hardcover)
Joseph Clarke
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

THE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG METH DEALER WHO GREW UP AND BECAME A MERCENARY DEA INFORMANT. You will be taken into the underworld drug business dominated by the California Hells Angels. Joe Clark graduates from high-school wondering where his path to adulthood will take him. He sees his peers driving expensive cars with expensive women sitting next to them. He is envious and wonders why he cannot be a part of the life that he sees. A life of money, respect, beautiful women and expensive homes. He makes a decision that will affect his future. He soon has what his peers have.....Suddenly the DEA is in his life.

The Perils of Pearl Bryan - Betrayal and Murder in the Midwest in 1896 (Hardcover): James McDonald, Joan Christen The Perils of Pearl Bryan - Betrayal and Murder in the Midwest in 1896 (Hardcover)
James McDonald, Joan Christen
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Amidst the turbulence and gaiety existing in American society during the last decade of the 20th century, the paths of two young men and a young woman merge. Each is inexorably drawn to a midnight rendezvous on a lonely road in northern Kentucky, and ghastly and fatal consequences result.

Boy Soldiers - A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma (Hardcover): Helene Munson Boy Soldiers - A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma (Hardcover)
Helene Munson
R582 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German children were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage combatants by any country before or since. Hans Dunker was just one of these children. Identified as gifted aged 9, he left his home in South America in 1937 in pursuit of a 'proper' education in Nazi Germany. Instead, he and his schoolfriends, lacking adequate training, ammunition and rations, were sent to the Eastern Front when the war was already lost in the spring of 1945. Using her father's diary and other documents, Helene Munson traces Hans' journey from a student at Feldafing School to a soldier fighting in Zawada, a village in present-day Czech Republic. What is revealed is an education system so inhumane that until recently, post-war Germany worked hard to keep it a secret. This is Hans' story, but also the story of a whole generation of German children who silently carried the shame of what they suffered into old age.

Murder Times Six - The True Story of the Wells Gray Park Murders (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition):... Murder Times Six - The True Story of the Wells Gray Park Murders (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Alan R Warren
R659 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R61 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Jennifer, Where Are You? (Hardcover): Katherine Ann Longo Jennifer, Where Are You? (Hardcover)
Katherine Ann Longo
R756 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In November of 1982, Katherine Ann Longo's life changed forever. Her daughter disappeared. It was a mother's worst nightmare. When the authorities failed to solve the case, Kathy didn't take "we don't know" for an answer. She began her own investigation. In her opinion, she gathered strong supporting evidence that pointed to a viable suspect for the police. But even with what Kathy considered to be proof, the authorities refused to cooperate. The person she deemed responsible for her daughter's disappearance went unquestioned. Even after she supplied them with photographic evidence, she couldn't get anyone to listen to her. What she was forced to endure in the course of her own personal investigation is chilling. Kathy was jailed, fired, and threatened. She was faced with sexual blackmail by those in authority, just for trying to get them to do their jobs. Hers was a terrifying descent into a world of deceit, pornography, child trafficking, and suicide. And for her efforts, she received a trip negotiated by the FBI into a state penitentiary. Her family was threatened, her friends were harassed, and a newscaster actually lost his job for airing her story on TV. Police officials didn't appreciate the bad publicity they received and actively tried to discredit Kathy. But throughout this entire nightmarish event, the residents of Tampa, Florida, assisted Kathy in every possible way imaginable. This book is her thank-you to those people who didn't give up on her-or Jennifer.

Decryption of the Donna Lass Code - and Victim 12 Postcard (Hardcover): Loren L Swearingen Decryption of the Donna Lass Code - and Victim 12 Postcard (Hardcover)
Loren L Swearingen
R1,731 R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Save R322 (19%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Twisted But True - Book II - Filling in the Cracks (Hardcover): Darren Burch Twisted But True - Book II - Filling in the Cracks (Hardcover)
Darren Burch
R732 R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Save R65 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stationhouse Tales (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Keith Bettinger Stationhouse Tales (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Keith Bettinger
R725 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R76 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
FBI Case Files Michigan - Tales of a G-Man (Hardcover): Greg Stejskal FBI Case Files Michigan - Tales of a G-Man (Hardcover)
Greg Stejskal
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Singapore Plotters (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Donald S Lawson The Singapore Plotters (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Donald S Lawson
R424 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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