Résultats pour "Airport" dans Biographies et mémoires

On December 11, 1978, masked men stormed JFK Airport’s Lufthansa terminal and escaped with nearly six million dollars in cash and jewels—the largest cash robbery in American history. What began as the perfect crime soon unraveled into paranoia, betrayal, and murder. The Lufthansa Heist: The Mafia’s Greatest Airport Robbery pulls you inside the planning, execution, and bloody aftermath of a job that made history, destroyed lives, and remains unsolved in the eyes of the law.

Though Americans have seen plenty of news updates on the Iraq War since 2003, few know what it’s like to actually live through the harsh conditions on a daily basis. In his memoir, B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport, two-tour Iraq War veteran Sergeant Brian L. Gordon shows readers the constant challenges soldiers face on the ground in the Middle East. Serving first in 2003, Gordon drives a truck delivering bulk fuel and must regularly dodge rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs. His unit also takes on heavy firefights and rocket launcher attacks while manning the water point at the Euphrates River.

For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of life inside Colombia’s drug cartels, using unprecedented access in the cartels to trace a kilo of cocaine—from the fields where it is farmed, to the hit men who protect it, to the smuggling...