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Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129903Author Nicholas PileggiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249g -
No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald
RRP: £16.99£11.085 ***** Mail on Sunday 'An absolutely gripping read' Andrew Marr 'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlett Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a... -
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£6.73A Sunday Times top-five bestseller'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair StewartJohn Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being... -
American Cops by James Patterson
RRP: £20.00£14.29For these men and women, it isn't just a job. It's a calling.PROTECTThey are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people.SERVEThese cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They're in the... -
A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories of the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen 9780856409721
RRP: £9.99£8.42In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart... -
Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals by Danni Brooke 9781035006724
£7.96Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke.For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in... -
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth
£7.96This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and... -
Crossing the Line: Lessons From a Life on Duty by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£6.73A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS'Extraordinary . . . urgent and compelling. We all have lessons to learn from this... -
Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars by Neil Samworth
£7.31A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors.Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years as a prison officer at HMP Manchester,... -
The Coppers' Lot: Frontline Policing in the UK by Rob Hindley
RRP: £9.99£7.36“Policing is a uniquely dangerous, harrowing and challenging profession where officers are expected to do far more than prevent and detect crime. To be a police officer is also to be a social worker, marriage guidance counsellor, mental health worker and... -
The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective by Liam Thomas
RRP: £17.99£12.95'An extraordinary writer' James O'Brien'The best account of life as an undercover cop that I've read' Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of the DS Max Craigie series'A compelling and powerful account from the darker side of policing and the terrifying... -
Lethal Force: My Life As the Met's Most Controversial Marksman by Tony Long
RRP: £12.99£9.34Tony Long was the best 'shot' the Met ever had. Under the codename 'Echo 7', he was 'licenced to kill' bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been... -
My Hero Theo by Gareth Greaves
RRP: £12.99£7.45'I'd been in so many scrapes with Theo and he'd always saved me. Those days were the hardest of my life so far and ... at the darkest point, those big brown eyes and that torn ear where I needed them to be. Right there next to me.' ... -
Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and Their Arrival in Hong Kong by Les Bird
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554738Author Les BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 216g -
The Killer Across the Table: From the authors of Mindhunter by John E. Douglas
RRP: £10.99£7.50'John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling' Patricia Cornwell GET INSIDE THE MINDS OF PSYCHOPATHS WITH THE GODFATHER OF CRIMINAL PROFILING ... -
The Secret Prison Governor by The Secret Prison Governor
RRP: £8.99£6.16An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what it's really like behind bars. How do you bring order to the lawless? The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner... -
Frank Serpico: 44 Years With A Bullet In MY Head by Riccardo Lo Faro 9781725794368
RRP: £9.13£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725794368Author Riccardo Lo FaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Broken Blue Line: How Life as Britain's Supercop Broke Me by Alistair Livingstone 9781472144768
RRP: £16.99£4.27Ali was dubbed Supercop for the number of arrests he made: more than 1,000 over one eighteen-month period, when the average arrest rate for officers in England and Wales is just nine a year. In his work as a police officer, he dealt with life-and-death... -
Calling Detective Crockford: The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1950s by Ruth D'Alessandro
RRP: £8.99£6.70This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man's world.It's 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and... -
American Sherlock: Remembering a Pioneer in Scientific Crime Investigation by Evan E. Filby
RRP: £30.00£17.43Luke S. May played a significant role in the development of scientific methods of crime investigation. Although basically self-taught in scientific matters, May spent over a half century practicing scientific crime detection and built a solid reputation... -
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective. by Jackie Malton
RRP: £20.00£18.02Jackie Malton was a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three... -
Black and Blue: The True-life Story of Britain's Most Senior Asian Policewoman by Parm Sandhu
RRP: £20.00£14.69In an enthralling narrative, Parm Sandhu chronicles her journey from life in 1960s Birmingham as the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab to the senior ranks of the Met. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage aged just 16, Parm eventually picked... -
Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu
RRP: £10.99£7.57'Inspiring... Important' Observer'A page-turner which everyone who cares about policing and justice in Britain should read.' Meera SyalAt the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman... -
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 9780857201058
RRP: £35.00£24.29Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023... -
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry 9780393321289
RRP: £19.99£18.16Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid... -
Murder Under the Microscope: Serial Killers, Cold Cases and Life as a Forensic Investigator by James Fraser
RRP: £10.99£7.57'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes 'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to... -
Stalling For Time by Gary Noesner
RRP: £14.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511281Author Gary NoesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Murder Under the Microscope: Serial Killers, Cold Cases and Life as a Forensic Investigator by James Fraser 9781786495945
RRP: £18.99£13.23'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve... -
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
£3.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250192455Author James ComeyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield by Martin Pearce
RRP: £11.99£8.68'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school who found himself... -
Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police: Fifty accounts from officers of Hong Kong's colonial-era police force by Royal Hong Kong Police Association
RRP: £13.99£9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963882Author Royal Hong Kong Police AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 366g -
My Hero Theo: The brave police dog who went beyond the call of duty to save lives by Gareth Greaves
RRP: £10.99£7.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I'd been in so many scrapes with Theo and he'd always saved me. Those days were the hardest of my life so far and ... at the darkest point, those big brown eyes and that torn... -
Wolf Boys: The extraordinary true story of two teenage assassins and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel by Dan Slater
RRP: £8.99£6.33At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug... -
"Kill The Black One First": Now available as A Search For Belonging in paperback by Michael Fuller
RRP: £9.99£6.66Now available as A Search For Belonging in paperback 'Absorbing... revealing and affecting. There are pleasures here, and lessons to be learnt, whatever colour you are' - The Sunday Times 'Michael Fuller is an extraordinary man with a remarkable and... -
Broken Blue Line: How Life as Britain's Supercop Broke Me by Alistair Livingstone
RRP: £9.99£6.73'Broken Blue Line is a rollercoaster of a ride depicting the realities of twenty-first-century policing on the front-line. Its well written, honest and informative. Alistair Livingstone put his life on the line, and now he's put his heart on the line... -
The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton
RRP: £26.99£18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525558194Author Bill BrattonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th by Harry Dunn 9780306831133
RRP: £29.00£17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306831133Author Harry DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 145mm * 28mm -
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
RRP: £19.99£14.28'Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world' Joseph Wambaugh'Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking'James Frey'More chilling than even the most realistic cop dramas on TV'People'A great book...with the testimonial... -
The Governor by John Lonergan
RRP: £15.99£11.61In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison, Mountjoy,... -
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala
RRP: £9.99£6.89Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the...