Ergebnis für "Für den Wolf" in Historisch

Im Jahre 1589 wird der verwitwete Bauer Peter Stump angeklagt, einen Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen zu haben. Dieser soll ihm einen magischen Gürtel gegeben haben, mit dessen Hilfe er sich in einen Wolf verwandeln und in diese Gestalt über Jahrzehnte hinweg gemordet habe. Noch heute fasziniert der, nur aus alten Flugschriften überlieferte Fall des Werwolfs von Bedburg die Menschen.

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Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

Joy Fererh was three and a half when her father walked out. When she and Sol met, he was fifty-five and nearing the pinnacle of his legal career. She was a thirty-something stay-at-home mother who, with Sol’s help, made a career for herself as a Republican Party fundraiser. They kept their affair a secret—until an explosive mix of sex, power, betrayal, and prescription-drug abuse set the stage for the tabloid headlines of the decade.