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The book behind the major Netflix film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel 'The movie event of the year' - Rolling Stone 'One of Martin Scorsese's best films ever' - Guardian The incredible true story of the death of Jimmy Hoffa, the...

**Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, is on sale now** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true’ – Time In this...

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz’s revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo’s federal drug-trafficking trial. This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world’s...

The Dark Net is not a separate realm but one that stretches from popular social media sites to the most secretive corners of the deep web. It is a world that is rarely out of the news but one that is little understood - and almost never explored. In The Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett presents a revelatory portrait of the internet's strangest subcultures: of trolls, drug dealers, hackers and political extremists.

Kinder sind zu einer begehrten Ware für den internationalen Markt geworden. Sie sind Opfer von Menschen, die vor allem eines wollen: Profit. Denn mit Kindern lässt sich viel Geld verdienen. Ob als Prostituierte, Plantagenarbeiter, Dienstmädchen oder Bettler: Kinder bringen hohe Gewinne. Sie selbst bezahlen dafür mit ihrer psychischen und körperlichen Gesundheit und häufig mit ihrem Leben. Aber die Nachfrage steigt: Das Geschäft mit Menschen ist inzwischen fast so lukrativ geworden wie der Handel mit Drogen.

'Gripping and essential reading' - TIM SPECTOR 'A compelling true crime story' - THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Strips away the lies to show what's really happening in the world' - OLIVER BULLOUGH 'Totally compelling' - ELIZABETH KOLBERT Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives. But the companies making it...

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AARON SORKIN, AND STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN, IDRIS ELBA, KEVIN COSTNER AND MICHAEL CERA The true story of the 26-year-old woman behind the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker game in the world When Molly Bloom...

Posing as a jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone worked undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant and deadly community of Mafia wise guys, captains, and bosses. Now his eyewitness account brings to pulsing life the code of honor, loyalties, treacheries, and dirty dealings of unforgettable characters.

In Kilo, Toby Muse takes us deeper into the mechanism of the drug trade than ever before, following a kilo of cocaine as it travels from its origins to the street. On the ground in the drug war for over a decade, earning the trust of those involved on all sides, Muse takes us with him through the endless blood-soaked horror and economic logic, at every level of the journey of the world’s most alluring and dangerous drug. We come to meet, and ultimately understand, the tainted personal psychology and motivations of each player in this dark El Dorado.

From an award-winning investigative reporter: the shocking story of the mob killer who terrorized the streets of New York City for decades . . . while working for the FBI In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of...

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

When Detective Arthur Brand is summoned to a meeting with one of the most dangerous men in the art world, he learns that a clue has emerged that could solve one of the Second World War's unexplained mysteries: what really happened to the Striding Horses, Hitler's favourite statue, which disappeared during the bombing of Berlin. As Brand goes undercover to find the horses, he discovers a terrifying world ruled by neo-Nazis and former KGB agents, where Third Reich memorabilia sells for millions of dollars.

Die bekannte Fernsehmoderatorin Sabine Sauer und der Starnberger Autor und Coach Bernd Späth stellen in einer neuen Hörbuchreihe grausame Verbrechen der Kriminalgeschichte vor. Jede Mordtat hat eine Vorgeschichte und jeder Täter hat ein Motiv. Einfühlsam und mit psychologischem Verständnis nähern sich Sabine Sauer und Bernd Späth dem Geschehen an und versuchen, das Entsetzliche und Unbegreifliche vorstellbarer zu machen. Späth kann dabei auf seine mehr als 20-jährige Erfahrung mit psychoanalytischen Techniken zurückgreifen.

Brought to you by Penguin. When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state? On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all...

Naples et la Campanie sont dominées par la criminalité organisée - la camorra - sur fond de guerre entre clans rivaux et de trafics en tout genre : contrefaçon, armes, drogues et déchets toxiques. C'est ainsi que le Système, comme le désignent ses affiliés, accroît ses profits, conforte sa toute-puissance et se pose en avant-garde criminelle de l'économie mondialisée. Roberto Saviano, au péril de sa vie, a choisi l'écriture pour mener son combat contre la camorra. Il met au jour les structures économiques et territoriales de cette mafia surpuissante.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of...

Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste Amtsinhaber, der das Schweigen über die Mafia brach und bei öffentlichen Aufträgen nicht mehr mit ihr paktierte. Seitdem steht er unter Polizeischutz.

Se un tempo i suoi affiliati andavano a dorso di mulo, rubavano polli e vacche, e l'unica risorsa di cui disponevano era la violenza, oggi la 'ndrangheta è l'organizzazione criminale più ricca e più potente al mondo, con un fatturato annuo di diverse decine di miliardi di euro, in gran parte provenienti dal traffico internazionale di cocaina.

What can a one-time mob boss teach you about how to run a business? I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse, written by a former member of the Colombo crime family, promises an insider's view of the mob that will change the way you do business forever. The first thing you'll learn? Get a plan...