Résultats pour "The Confession" dans Crime organisé

This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars, auto thieves, and members of Mafia and Mexican drug smuggling operations. In this riveting tale, the author recounts fascinating experiences and the creative methods he used to succeed and survive in a difficult and sometimes extremely dangerous underworld life.

When alleged mob hitman Giuseppe “Joe” Parisi gunned down Carlo Siniscalchi—the ruthless “King of Bootleggers”—as his limousine idled at the curb, he set off one of the bloodiest Mafia vendettas in New England history. The fallout was immediate and savage. A retaliatory strike on Parisi’s unsuspecting family and attorney. A deadly car-to-car gunfight on a desolate Connecticut roadway.

At the birth of the 20th century the advent of train travel throughout the United States brought assorted smooth-talking, quick-thinking con men. These men took people's money. Seasoned journalist Will Irwin chronicled the true confessions of a master swindler, card cheat, circus barker and master of persuasion. THE CONFESSIONS OF A CON MAN details one man’s apprenticeship into larceny and his journey as a criminal mastermind of daring swindles.

The book that inspired the feature film The Stranger (Netflix), starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris. The disappearance of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe was one of the most heartbreaking and confounding child abduction and murder cases of the century, spanning almost a decade prior to...