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Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal mastermind, and Dixie Mafia figure. With the help of corrupt local authorities, Smith spent the 1970s building a criminal empire in auto salvage and bail bonds.

The Diaries of a Doorman Volume 3 - Bouncing in the Sun is set in the Canary Islands back in the 1990s where Stu worked and lived in the murky world of Doormen. This was a time and a place where the line between bouncer and villain was often blurred.

Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays.... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the 17th century to the present.

Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the first time, the history of the Chicago Heights street crew is traced from its inception through its last known boss.

"Fariña" és un relat interessant que narra, a través de testimonis directes, el narcotràfic a Galicia des del principi del contraban fins a l’actualitat. Del contraban de tabac es va passar al de cocaïna. La manca de legislació, impunitat, permissivitat, l’acceptació social i el desconeixement del gran problema que allà es gestava va ajudar a crear una organització que va ser la responsable de què el 80 % de la cocaïna arribés a Europa per les costes gallegues.

En novemberdag i 2000 gennemfører pengetransportchaufføren Andrew Johannisson det største pengerøveri i Danmark nogensinde. Han lænker sin kollega til rattet og stikker af med 42 millioner kr. i en varevogn. Dagen efter røveriet anholder politet Andrew Johannison, og de går ud fra, at sagen er opklaret. Men det er den langt fra. Andrew har nemlig ikke været alene om røveriet, pengene er forsvundet, og en af Andrew Johannissons bekendte bliver taget som gidsel. Efterhånden får politiet trevlet netværket op i en sag, som fører dem helt til Thailand.

Peter Jaarveld is geobsedeerd door Tinus, een vriendin van zijn overleden vrouw. Hij is er zeker van dat ze in gevaar is, zit haar voortdurend op de hielen en krijgt ten slotte een straatverbod opgelegd. Dan wordt Tinus overvallen en in een coma geslagen. Peter wordt verdacht en ontslagen door zijn werkgever, een Amsterdams architectenbureau.

“The Godmother [is a] crisply written, dutifully researched book exploring the role of women in the…underbelly of Italian life.” —New York Times Book Review The chilling story of one woman’s rise to prominence in the Italian Mafia, and the as-yet untold stories of the women who...

In 2011 a group of fishermen living on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, were convicted for one of the largest, most audacious drug-smuggling plots in British history. They were accused of scooping up £53mill ($69 mill) worth of pure cocaine in the dead of night from the middle of the English Channel.

Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good, and the work was easy - or so he thought. He had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the UK. Refusal was not an option. There followed a harrowing journey to Venezuela, where almost £50 million of coke was waiting. But someone had tipped off the authorities. Donald and his fellow crewman were arrested, convicted of drug smuggling, and sentenced to six years in the notorious island prison of San Antonio.

Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over a century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The White slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. This revealing history chronicles the rise of Steubenville's prodigious underworld from the 1890s to the modern day.

Della Mala del Brenta tutti conoscono il boss indiscusso Felice Maniero, la sua sfrontatezza, le rapine e le fughe rocambolesche. Meno si parla del potere feroce imposto nel Veneto per vent'anni. In questo libro Arianna Zottarel spiega le origini e l'evoluzione di un'organizzazione criminale speciale usando fonti orali, atti giudiziari e decenni di articoli di stampa: dalle rapine miliardarie al controllo delle bische, dal traffico di droga alle armi. E poi ancora i sequestri di persona, gli omicidi e i legami con le altre mafie.

No es una pandilla, no es una célula de un grupo mayor ni tampoco una banda doméstica, sino un auténtico cártel que logró apoderarse del centro del país, justo en las narices de las más altas autoridades. ¿Cómo lo hizo? Ejerciendo una violencia como nunca se había visto, con el liderazgo de un hombre del que poco o nada se sabía, con una red de lavado poderosísima y la apatía de dos administraciones capitalinas.

For more than 20 years, the most intense and prolonged gang war in British history raged on the streets of Manchester. Warring factions left at least 40 dead and made headlines across the world. This best-selling account tells how vicious battles for control of drugs, turf, and protection rackets blighted the reputation of one of Europe's most dynamic cities and saw the coining of the sinister epithet "Gunchester".

Macina profitti, devasta città e campagne, corrompe i poteri. Lasciando dietro di sé una striscia di sangue che non si asciuga mai. Il libro consegna un ritratto sconvolgente della violenza della camorra, delle impunità e anche delle complicità quotidiane. E offre al tempo stesso un affresco denso di pietas del mondo delle vittime, nomi e cognomi ingiustamente dimenticati. Uomini uccisi per punire, per intimidire o semplicemente per sbaglio. Don Peppe Diana, sacerdote. Salvatore Nuvoletta, carabiniere. Federico Del Prete, sindacalista.

Los acontecimientos que se narran en esta historia están basados en hechos reales, en "Culpable" se cuenta cómo dos hombres fueron encarcelados injustamente durante los años 30 en Chicago y cómo una investigación periodística logró esclarecer los hechos y recuperar su libertad.

The story of one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his meteoric rise to fame.

Shay grew up on a tough Manchester council estate where drugs and gangs were rife. A life of crime would have been an easy path to take. So it went against everything that was expected of him when he joined the police. It wouldn't be long before Shay's prodigious talent caught the attention of the top. Then came the call that changed his life: an offer to join the secret level one undercover unit known as Omega. And it was easy to see why they wanted him; he wouldn't have to stray too far from what he already knew.

Step into Chicago during the 1960s and ’70s, when mobsters influence everyone from strip-club owners to Teamsters, aldermen, judges, and local police. It is a world where good men are corrupted by the irresistible lure of money and power and families are shattered by lies, violence, and tragedy.

I sommeren 2003 lykkedes det en flok mænd at smugle 13 ton hash fra Marokko til Danmark ved hjælp af en gammel kap­ sejladsbåd. Sagens hovedperson ligner ikke det stereotype billede på en smugler, men det skulle vise sig at være grunden til, at det lykkedes ham at undgå ordensmagtens søgelys.