Crimes category: 7162 books
Blood on the Streets
A-Z of Glasgow Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime. From Madelaine Smith and Oscar Slater, by way of the Bridgeton Billy Boys and the Norman Conks, through to modern villains like Paul Ferris and Tam McGraw, Glasgow's streets have spawned a succession...
Streetfighters
Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
In every city and town, there are men who have earned notoriety with their fists. Hardmen, bouncers, bareknuckle brawlers and enforcers, they are throwbacks to an age when disputes when settled in blood.
In this revealing book, Julian Davies interviews two dozen of the toughest streetfighters...
Terrorist Cop
The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Terrorist Cop is a colorful, haunting, and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Dzikansky's career began with a yarmulke on his head, patrolling Brooklyn's streets, and going undercover to catch a band of Torah thieves. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel...
There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
A Revelation of Audacious Frauds, Scams, and Cons -- How toSpot Them, How to Sto p Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
One in nine Americans will lose money as a victim of fraud
• Every man and woman in the country (and every child with an email address) will be targeted by professional fraudsters-multiple times.
• Seven out of every eight frauds go unreported.
• Most fraudsters will get away with their...
by John McShane
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The tragic and violent death of 17-month old Baby P at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for him has sickened the nation. That such unimaginable cruelty could be unleashed on an innocent child - and fail to be picked up on by the authorities - has led to a public outcry and a media...
Death Comes Knocking
Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described...
The Devil
Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you.
Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through 'taxing' the...
Powder Wars
The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine...
The Cartel
The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is Britain’s biggest drugs organisation, a shadowy network stretching from the freezing, fog-banks of the Mersey to the glittering marinas of Marbella, from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to the trading...
Crossing the Line
Losing Your Mind as an Undercover Cop
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition, becoming one an elite group of officers, the reality of covert work turned his life into a nightmare.
To catch criminals,...
by Stephen Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A hard hitting, brutally honest account of police work during the late 1960's and 1970's. Whilst explicit, it is often humorous, refreshing and equally unbelievable. In this ?rst book of a trilogy the author takes the reader through his early police service and in doing so reveals many working practices...
by Colin Blaney
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
THE INTER CITY JIBBERS. WHERE UNITED WENT, THEY FOLLOWED. MAYHEM WAS NEVER FAR BEHIND.The Inter City Jibbers were the most notorious Manchester United hooligan crew of the last thirty years, and Colin 'Beaner' Blaney was up to his neck in it. His years as an ICJ and Wide Awake Firm (WAF) footsoldier...
Bouncers and Bodyguards
Tales from a Twilight World
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.
Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged...
by Alan Lord
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge.After experiencing a troubled childhood during which Alan was in and out of children's homes - after...