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Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Louis Ferrante 9781474604291
RRP: £25.00£14.48DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member Louis Ferrante pulls back the curtain on the criminal organisation that transformed America. From the... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: £12.99£9.34In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was accused and received a sentence of 539 years. Since being... -
Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption, and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang by Joseph Dragovich
RRP: £16.99£14.32South-east England, 1740s: war and heated politics bring the old practice of smuggling to new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorise communities and confound government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these, the Hawkhurst... -
Goldfinger and Me: The Real Story of John Palmer, Britain's Most Powerful Gangster by Marnie Palmer 9780750987622
RRP: £10.99£8.47The life, crimes and bloody end of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer were straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster - and Marnie Palmer, his wife of forty years, had a front row seat. The poor Solihull lad, whose childhood home was so cold the goldfish froze,... -
Called by the Wild: The Dogs Trained to Protect Wildlife Conraad de Rosner 9781802471380
RRP: £9.99£7.00Conraad de Rosner is a pioneering game ranger, working with dogs to protect wildlife against poachers - both 'bushmeat' poachers, who use cruel snares to trap animals, and criminal syndicates killing for rhinoceros horn and capturing critically... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
RRP: £20.00£13.81The New York Times BestsellerFrom the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.'Eminently bingeable, religiously... -
Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen Jennifer McAdam 9781802471908
RRP: £9.99£7.00The astonishing true story of the Scottish coal miner's daughter who took on the Mafia-backed creators of the world's biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict them Soon to be a major Hollywood film directed by Scott Z Burns 'In the... -
Another Day in the Death of America Gary Younge 9781783351022
RRP: £12.99£8.80BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AND THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARDSaturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an... -
To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and his Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov
RRP: £22.00£14.45A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland... -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: £8.99£4.93From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe 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 have become cult anti-heroes... -
Narco Wars: How British Agents Infiltrated The Colombian Drug Cartels Tom Chandler 9781908479921
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479921Author Tom ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo Books -
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew
RRP: £20.00£14.69'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The TimesFor years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his family dacha. When he was exfiltrated to the West he... -
I Am Not A Gangster by Bobby Cummines
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I am not a gangster,' I spat. 'I'm a businessman trying to make a hard-earned crust. Understood?'I didn't give him time to reply. I took the barrel out of his mouth and smashed him in the face with the butt. His lip split, but he wasn't a dead man. He... -
Panzram: A Journal of Murder by James O. Long
RRP: £22.99£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923141Author James O LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 502g -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£6.67'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
The Infamous Burke and Hare: Serial Killers and Resurrectionists of Nineteenth Century Edinburgh R. Michael Gordon 9780786444038
RRP: £14.99£12.75Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided inquisitive Scottish surgeons who competed for... -
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo 9781982153748
RRP: £10.99£7.21This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons... -
Kenny Noye: Public Enemy No 1 by Wensley Clarkson 9781844541935
RRP: £9.99£7.05Kenneth Noye is a criminal mastermind and millionaire. The man at the top of organised crime in Britain fled the country after the murder of young motorist Stephen Cameron on the M25. His extradition from Spain caused banner headlines across the country... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £10.99£7.99ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £9.99£6.84THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world Richard Henriques 9781529333497
RRP: £10.99£7.61'If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC who turns up in Agatha Christie novels and is recognised by everybody... There is an undeniable, lawyerly authenticity about Henriques's book. He takes us... -
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £14.99£10.06The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So,... -
A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond by David Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.61BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW Expanded and updated, this is the definitive history of British serial killing 1888-2020 - by the UK's leading criminologist, David WilsonIn this fascinating... -
Hunting El Chapo: Taking down the world's most-wanted drug-lord by Andrew Hogan
RRP: £9.99£6.84This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world's most-wanted drug-lord. Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo... -
Original Gangster: My Life as NYC's Biggest Baddest Drugs Baron by Frank Lucas
RRP: £14.99£10.95Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer and true-life... -
The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by Simon Clark
RRP: £10.99£7.99AS FEATURED IN BBC TWO'S BILLION DOLLAR DOWNFALL: THE DEALMAKER DOCUMENTARYTwo Wall Street reporters investigate the man entrusted with millions to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen... -
True Crime Case Histories - (Books 7, 8, & 9): 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection) by Jason Neal 9781956566291
RRP: £22.99£18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566291Author Jason NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
No Handcuffs: The Final Word on My War with The Krays by Eddie Richardson 9781789461596
RRP: £8.99£6.42THE FINAL WORD FROM THE LAST KING OF GANGLAND WITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA COLE 'We couldn't, we wouldn't, let anyone take a liberty. That was never an option at that time.' Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of... -
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War by Emmanuel Iduma 9780008430764
RRP: £10.99£7.46'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An... -
Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware by Laurent Richard
RRP: £20.00£14.51'A must-read' - New ScientistThe gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created - and an existential threat to democracy and human rights.'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism' - The... -
Complete Jack The Ripper by Donald Rumbelow
RRP: £16.99£12.47Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history.The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most... -
An Evil Love: The Life and Crimes of Fred West by Geoffrey Wansell
RRP: £9.99£7.05The reverberations from Fred West's crimes continue to this day. The story never dies.West was perhaps one of Britain's most evil, feared serial killers. His horrifying compulsion to kidnap, rape and torture his victims before murdering them showed a... -
American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The best crime book since Wiseguy' - Rich CohenA real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven. He joined a US Army assassination squad in Vietnam to escape a teen criminal charge, then fled New... -
What Lies Beneath: My life as a forensic search and rescue expert by Peter Faulding
RRP: £18.99£14.22'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping as the finest thriller' - Peter James, author of Picture You DeadDiscover the truth beyond the police tape in What Lies Beneath, the arresting memoir of... -
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance Stephen Grady 9781444760620
RRP: £12.99£7.72An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland,... -
We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson 9780434022083
RRP: £16.99£12.28In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy. In 2011, LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal... -
Killing Goldfinger: The Secret, Bullet-Riddled Life and Death of Britain's Gangster Number One - As Featured in BBC Drama 'The Gold' Wensley Clarkson 9781786484888
RRP: £10.99£7.61The inside story of the life and death of Britain's criminal kingpin and the empire he builtKILLING GOLDFINGER charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from... -
The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Crypto Con That Fooled the World by Jamie Bartlett
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An astonishing read, plunging you into a toxic world of Insta-wealth, betrayal and ruthless ambition... A con that made Theranos look like small fry' - The Telegraph'The largest financial scam ever' - Fortune'The story of OneCoin stands out even among... -
Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi 9780393347333
RRP: £12.99£11.46Parkland is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History, a huge and historic account of the event and all...