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When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the ‘upper world’ sails perilously close to the underworld.
Hitmen For Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to be a hitman – or woman.
Since 1994, South Africa has witnessed some spectacular underworld killings associated with various industries and sectors. Drawing on over a thousand cases, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders have an outsized impact on the evolution of both legal and illegal economic activity.
At the very dawn of the country’s brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which started as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were more than 400 bombs – most famously at the popular Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront – and there were countless targeted hits on drug lords and gang bosses.
The police were at their wits end. The new ANC government was alarmed. The citizens of Cape Town were living in fear.
Mark Shaw tells the incredible tale of how the police’s response pulled together former foes – struggle cadres and the apartheid security apparatus – to break the Pagad death squads. It is a story that has never been told in full and was not possible until recently, when many were released from prison or had retired and were finally willing to talk openly about this revealing chapter in South Africa’s recent history.
It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating.
Thousands of people died between 2011 – 2019 resulting from one senior police officer’s crime: his decision to sell millions of rands’ worth of guns. Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, former head of the Gauteng firearm license division, and his network of cronies sold guns decommissioned by the SAPS to South Africa’s gang lords. The sale of such weapons led to a killing spree of unprecedented proportions.
Based on interviews with police and the criminal underworld, this book tells the story of this callous crime for the first time. Shaw explores how the illegally sold guns got into the hands of South Africa’s crime bosses. The book describes the bloodbath that ensued and uncovers accounts of rampant corruption within the police and in the gun-licensing system, probing the government failure that has been instrumental in arming the country’s gangsters.
"Investigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw's original work
into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy
Kilgallen is now focused on the many unanswered questions left by
the Warren Commission's inquiry into the JFK assassination.
Fighting for Justice has to be read." -Nicholas Pileggi, author of
Wiseguy and Casino Packed with shocking new evidence, Fighting for
Justice exposes the cover-ups of the JFK assassination and the
murders of Dorothy Kilgallen and Marilyn Monroe, while revealing
for the first time the corrupt inner workings of the Warren
Commission based on the firsthand "whistleblower" account of an
actual Commission member never identified before. How does an
explosive "whistleblower" account from a Warren Commission (WC)
member never identified before destroy once and for all the biggest
lie in American history, the "Oswald Alone" theory? On what basis
did the member admit, "It's more than Oswald. There is internal
corruption on the Commission. I do not agree with the Report"? Is
the "whistleblower" the same one who surreptitiously passed Jack
Ruby's WC testimony to journalist Dorothy Kilgallen prior to its
release date? And how did President Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar
Hoover strong arm the commission to prevent any investigation of
the truth about who killed JFK and why? Based on fifteen years of
research, answers to these questions and more are uncovered in
Fighting for Justice, bestselling author and noted historian Mark
Shaw's improbable journey to exposing cover-ups of the JFK
assassination while proving Marilyn Monroe and Kilgallen were
murdered.
If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy's complicity in the
murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based
on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by
Bobby's enemies would not have happened-changing the course of
history and preventing the murder of media icon Dorothy Kilgallen.
In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to
come, bestselling author (The Reporter Who Knew Too Much) and
distinguished historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection
between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren
Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV
star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. A former
noted criminal defense attorney and network legal analyst, Shaw
provides an illuminating perspective as to how Robert Kennedy's
abuse of power during the early 1960s resulted in the murders of
Marilyn, JFK, and Dorothy. Praise for Mark Shaw Books The Reporter
Who Knew Too Much "The compelling story of Dorothy Kilgallen, the
celebrated journalist once called 'the most powerful female voice
in America.'" -Nick Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino Denial of
Justice "A worthy sequel to the mysterious whodunit that snuffed
out the brave reporter, Denial of Justice is a true crime thriller
that seeks to undo the label attached to Ms. Kilgallen's untimely
demise. Mark Shaw has done an admirable and exemplary job in his
work. Do not miss!" -San Francisco Book Review
An inspiring and essential book for everyone interested in
improving the way they write. - Brian Minards, School of
Advertising, Academy of Art University, San Francisco Writing copy
is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple
techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with
ease. This revised edition teaches the art of writing great copy
for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing,
retailing, catalogues, company magazines and internal
communications, and aspects of writing for social media are
integrated throughout. There are also new interviews and case
studies. Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated
examples of award-winning campaigns and communication,
*Copywriting, Third Edition takes you through step-by-step
processes that can help you to write content quickly and
effectively.
Was What's My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative
reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a
tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main
suspect in her death still at large? These questions and more are
answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark
Shaw's 25th book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Through discovery
of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those
closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, Shaw unfolds
a "whodunit" murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank
Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello and a "Mystery
Man" who may have silenced Kilgallen. All while by presenting
through Kilgallen's eyes the most compelling evidence about the JFK
assassinations since the House Select Committee on Assassination's
investigation in the 1970s. Called by the New York Post, "the most
powerful female voice in America," and by acclaimed author Mark
Lane the "the only serious journalist in America who was concerned
with who killed John Kennedy and getting all of the facts about the
assassination," Kilgallen's official cause of death reported as an
overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, has always been
suspect since no investigation occurred despite the death scene
having been staged. Shaw proves Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who
broke the "glass ceiling" before the term became fashionable, was
denied the justice she deserved, that is until now. More about the
book may be learned at thereporterwhoknewtoomuch.com or
thedorothykilgallenstory.org.
Covid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and
economies in previously unimaginable ways--but gangsters and
profiteers have adapted. They have found new routes for illegal
commodities, from narcotics to people. Shortages, lockdowns and
public attitudes have brought the underworld and upperworld closer
together, as criminals strive to meet needs, maximise opportunities
and fill governance vacuums. Unscrupulous fraudsters are touting
fake remedies to desperate people: counterfeit drugs, and
trafficked wildlife used in traditional medicine. Social distancing
and restrictions have seen online transactions and cyber-ops
replacing or supplementing physical shipments, opening
opportunities for scammers and hackers. Heavy-handed state
responses have created new illicit markets by prohibiting the sale
of particular goods and services, while some elites have
capitalised on the pandemic for personal or political gain. Covid
has cast a long shadow over the rule of law. Criminal Contagion
uncovers its extraordinary impacts on the global illicit economy,
and their long-term implications.
Packed with inside information about how World Golf Hall of Famer
Pete Dye hoodwinks golfers of all skill levels, Bury Me In A Pot
Bunker presents valuable tips to strategically play Dye's courses
and any courses through understanding the architect's bedeviling
mindset. Also included are Pete's design philosophies as well as
humorous "Dye-isms" chronicling Dye's remarkable career. "Most Pete
Dye courses are mental challenges more than physical." - Rory
Mcllroy "The way Pete gets on a property and feels it is pretty
impressive. His courses built for tournaments are hard, but there's
a good reason behind everything. We've talked for hours. To get his
opinion has been invaluable." - Tiger Woods "No other golf course]
designer continues to re-invent his architecture the way Pete Dye
does." - Ron Whitten -Golf Digest "Pete Dye - the most loved,
hated, and imitated golf-course architect of the past fifty years."
- PGA Magazine " Pete Dye's] self-effacing, aw-shucks approach to
the game belies an artistry that reached into golf's past and made
it relevant for the future. More by accident than design, he proved
himself to be a genius." - Bradley S. Klein - Golfweek "By
acclamation, the master of psychological course design among modern
golf course architects." - Tom Doak, Renowned Golf Course Architect
'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy
Wiener It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the
post-apartheid era, and its consequences were devastating. At least
a thousand people died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of one
senior police officer's criminal decision to sell a huge cache of
guns. Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, former head of the Gauteng
firearm license division, and his network of cronies sold guns
decommissioned by the SAPS to South Africa's gang lords. The sale
of these weapons led to a killing spree of unprecedented
proportions. Based on interviews with police and the criminal
underworld, this book tells the story of this callous crime for the
first time. Shaw explores how the illegally sold guns got into the
hands of South Africa's crime bosses. The book describes the
bloodbath that ensued and uncovers accounts of rampant corruption
within the police and in the gun-licensing system, probing the
government failure that has been instrumental in arming the
country's gangsters.
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