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  • One Big Fib
    Owen Platt
    The First International Bank of Grenada will go down in history as one of the biggest banking swindles of all time. Aided and abetted by a corrupt government, Van Brink and his satraps lured hundreds of innocent investors to place their savings in a bank he claimed 'had a vision'. With evangelical zeal he preached the gospel of his bank, playing upon the religious and charitabl...
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    22,11 €

  • One Big Fib
    Owen Platt
    The First International Bank of Grenada will go down in history as one of the biggest banking swindles of all time. Aided and abetted by a corrupt government, Van Brink and his satraps lured hundreds of innocent investors to place their savings in a bank he claimed 'had a vision'. With evangelical zeal he preached the gospel of his bank, playing upon the religious and charitabl...
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    33,35 €

  • Whitemare
    Geoff Doyle
    Whitemare is the compelling story of the international FBI investigation that resulted in what was the largest seizure of heroin in U.S. history. It takes the reader behind the scenes in the making of this unparalleled spellbinding case and exposes for the reader’s consideration the unabridged factors, which impacted daily on the agents and other investigators. It removes the ...
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    22,84 €

  • BATHSHUA
    Bojan Hamlin Jennings
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    20,43 €

  • Liar
    Rebecca Grayson
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    19,70 €

  • Liar
    Rebecca Grayson
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    26,70 €

  • Residual Uncertainty
    Roy Pateman
    Intelligence networks will forever be with us, and surely there will always be an appropriate role for the intelligence community. In Residual Uncertainty, Roy Pateman gives numerous examples of where security has been breached, and networks, severely, even irreparably compromised and explains how the consequences of intelligence failure will surely be graver in the future. Pat...
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    108,19 €

  • The Breeding of Contempt
    John W. King / John WKing
    The Breeding Of Contempt, details two horrific events in the Nation?s history. The 1973 mass murder of seven people in Washington, D.C., and the 1977 siege on Washington that left a reporter dead, and nearly took the life of a popular city councilman. The book also introduces readers to a literary first, a Black family hiding in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The Breed...
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    25,72 €

  • Homicide
    Leonard Beeghley
    Echoing Durkheim’s Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America’s murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets, great...
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    160,96 €

  • Homicide
    Leonard Beeghley
    Echoing Durkheim’s Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America’s murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets, great...
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    53,03 €

  • Wise Guys
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    26,82 €

  • Murder at Fort Huachuca
    Darlene Fitzgerald
    Take a look at our nation’s illusive, imaginary borders, and the terrifying Murder investigation that identified this, long before 911 and Timothy McVeigh. Through the eyes of the criminal investigators, see a thrilling murder/suicide investigation on an Army Installation located on the Arizona border. See how this investigation leads investigators to a homegrown Terrorist Orga...
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    16,47 €

  • Haunted by the Spirit
    Diane M. Marobella / Diane MMarobella / Raffaele J. Bibbo / Raffaele JBibbo
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    16,68 €

  • Haunted by the Spirit
    Diane M. Marobella / Diane MMarobella / Raffaele J. Bibbo / Raffaele JBibbo
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    29,08 €

  • The Misericordia Hospital Incident
    Henry Hall
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    22,65 €

  • The Misericordia Hospital Incident
    Henry Hall
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    29,20 €

  • La historia y las teorías historiográficas del diseño
    Isabel Campi
    Este libro permite entender la utilidad y el sentido de la historia, no solo para los diseñadores sino para cualquier persona interesada en comprender de manera directa y clara la importancia del uso de la historia como elemento clave para desarrollar una conciencia crítica sobre el mundo que habitamos. Este libro constituye un observatorio que analiza, identifica e interpreta ...
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    8,08 €

  • 17 Days
    Arthur Herzog III
    On December 28, 1992, two days before her tenth birthday, Katie Beers disappeared. She had left for an outing with a close family friend, John Esposito, and her whereabouts remained mysterious as the year drew to a close and her family grew frantic, fearing the worst. On January 13th, Katie was found alive in a secret, dungeon-like vault beneath Esposito’s Bay Shore, Long Islan...
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    23,05 €

  • Drugs, Oil, and War
    Peter Dale Scott
    Peter Dale Scott’s brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countrie...
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    41,70 €

  • The Valachi Papers
    Peter Maas
    The First Inside Account of the MafiaIn the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York’s Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob’s code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who 'clipped' rivals and turncoats. With a...
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    15,40 €

  • Reflections From The Shield
    Wayne E. Beyea
    Emotionally evocative, Reflections From The Shield is an exciting portrayal of the author’s career in a family known as the New York State Police. A 25 year labor of love and personal sacrifice. 3 ...
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    31,97 €

  • Murder as a Business Decision
    G E Marché / G. E. Marché / GEMarché / Shoshanah Keni
    In the second edition of Murder as a Business Decision, a new chapter is added that covers aspects of additional real world planned homicide investigations. The new material covers investigations related to FBI undercover operations Strawman in Kansas City. ...
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    100,01 €

  • The Bogeyman
    Sherry L. Meinberg
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    22,98 €

  • The Bogeyman
    Sherry L. Meinberg
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    34,23 €

  • The Piggy Bank Murder
    Tom Walsh
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    24,13 €

  • The Condemnation of Little B
    Elaine Brown
    Through the story of a thirteen-year-old black boy condemned to life in prison, Elaine Brown exposes the ’New Age’ racism that effectively condemns millions of poor African-Americans to a third world life. The story of ’Little B’ is riveting, a stunning example of the particular burden racism imposes on black youths. Most astonishing, almost all of the officials involved in bri...
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    27,57 €

  • Part of the Plot
    H. Dugan / HDugan
    Is this the autobiography of a participant in the assassination plot of 1963? The life it describes is the strange, rather isolated existence of a person who never ’fit-in’ at any point of his life. Although he readily and incisively comments on actions and the personalities he observed, he really is not open about himself. ...
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    18,77 €

  • Death in a Texas Desert
    Carlton Stowers
    Carlton Stowers presents a thrilling, fast-paced account of 17 true crime stories gleaned from the award-winning pages of The Dallas Observer. This chillingly compelling volume accounts famed events in history such as the 'Phantom Killer' of the 1940s who haunted Texarkana, to more current terrors, recounting the crazed man who opened fire in Killeen’s Luby’s Cafeteria in 1991....
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    16,23 €

  • Requiem for Torchy
    Tony Tripodi
    When Joe Torchy Torchia, the last of Sacramento s legendary great gamblers, died in a hail of bullets in 1970, an era died with him. In his day, The Torch was many things to many people. 3 ...
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    14,10 €

  • OKLAHOMA TOUGH
    Ron Padgett
    Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In Oklahoma Tough, poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a ...
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    30,94 €