Titres dans Crime organisé

In January 1950, eleven men walked into the Brinks Armored Car Depot in Boston and pulled off what was then the largest cash heist in American history. Wearing Halloween masks and stolen uniforms, they vanished with over $2.7 million—and left behind almost no clues. For years, it looked like they had committed the perfect crime.

Imagine a valley so pristine it is the envy of all places near it. Complete with soft rolling hills, clear-water brooks, thermal springs, lakes for water sports, and crystal mines for discovering quartz, plus the only diamond mine in America. It was so attractive. The first on the scene were native Indians followed by explorers, and by 1832, Hot Springs became the first US National Park. Of course, something this special was instantly noticed. And then along came the settlers, proprietors, and anyone interested in turning a dollar.

At last! The complete Alpha Female Files: Books 1-3 are available in a single volume! It looked like an ordinary email. But when she opened it, a Hong Kong housewife unwittingly uncovered a decade's old plot to blackmail her and her husband. Determined to find out who was responsible, she soon finds herself thrust into a shadowy underworld of sex, lies, and dirty money. The men who had orchestrated the plot thought that because she was a woman, she was weak.

Numa realidade paralela ao cotidiano sangrento da guerra às drogas nas periferias, emergem aqui diversas tramas, nas quais circulam os mais variados tipos: dos jovens de classe alta que ganham dinheiro com o delivery de maconha orgânica nos bairros mais nobres de São Paulo aos ricos empresários que controlam o transporte aéreo de cocaína, ligando produtores e clientes no Brasil.

In The Lufthansa Heist: The Mob’s Big Score, author James G. Edwards II delivers a gripping account of the people, the plan, and the bloody aftermath of the crime that stunned law enforcement and fed the public imagination for decades. From Jimmy Burke’s deadly leadership to Henry Hill’s later confessions, this book explores how mob discipline broke down, how investigators struggled to connect dots, and how Hollywood mythologized a heist that remains shrouded in mystery.

Las terribles imágenes grabadas en el puerto de Barbate la noche del 9 de febrero de 2024 fueron un aldabonazo para la sociedad española. Ese día descubrimos cómo los narcos del Estrecho, con naves más rápidas y sofisticadas, embestían y hundían una zodiac de la Guardia Civil, asesinando a dos guardias e hiriendo a otros dos.

La storia vera di un poliziotto romano catapultato a Palermo a caccia dei grandi latitanti mafiosi negli anni più caldi della lotta a Cosa nostra. Ne emerge un racconto avvincente, appassionato, talvolta venato di sottile e amaro umorismo, che ci fa rivivere la prosaicità di ogni guerra: quando l'attimo dell'"azione" è preceduto da interminabili giornate di pedina­menti e intercettazioni passate a "studiare il nemico", a estrarre prove e indizi da un segno all'apparenza insignificante, da un sussurro carpito al telefono, da un silenzio sospetto.

Ha venticinque anni quando suo padre, Pio La Torre, viene ucciso da Cosa nostra, il 30 aprile 1982. Franco La Torre a metà degli anni Novanta raccoglie il testimone dalla madre e si assume, come impegno quotidiano, di continuare la battaglia contro il sistema di potere politico-mafioso. In questo libro ci sono l’antimafia storica e quella contemporanea.

Un viaggio reale nel Messico della guerra sucia dello stato corrotto e in quella infinita dei cartelli del narcotraffico. Francesco Forgione negli anni ha incontrato ministri, magistrati, poliziotti. Ha conosciuto i familiari dei desaparecidos. Ha ascoltato la voce dei preti di strada e della gente delle comunità indigene che resistono, degli attivisti per i diritti umani e dei giornalisti che mettono a rischio la propria vita. Ha raccolto le storie delle vittime innocenti di questa guerra sporca, di coloro che si sono trovati nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato.

Il true crime sulla vicenda di Roberto Calvi. L’amara caduta all’inferno del banchiere del Vaticano. Londra, 1982. Un uomo dilaniato dalla solitudine scrive a un caro amico, raccontandogli della vicenda che l’ha portato a fuggire dall’Italia. Una lettera struggente, colma di rimorso, da cui emerge la storia di una vita alla ricerca di un potere redentivo e totalizzante.

"Las tríadas son como los virus, malignas, ponzoñosas y mutables; se aprovechan de los demás en beneficio propio... Son las peores sanguijuelas." Las han bautizado con multitud de nombres, pero las sociedades que nacieron para derrocar a los Qing y restaurar a los Ming han degenerado hasta convertirse en un cáncer para la sociedad globalizada. Se han adaptado al medio para sacar el máximo partido de los negocios ilícitos que ya lucraban a ciertos movimientos secretos desde los albores de la historia de China.

At the dawn of the country’s brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were hundreds of bomb blasts—most infamously at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront—and countless targeted hits on druglords and gang bosses.

Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984. From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence.

In un mondo sempre più interconnesso, dove le distanze vengono annullate da un click e i luoghi d'incontro virtuali stanno soppiantando quelli reali, anche le mafie stanno imparando ad adattarsi: sfruttando le potenzialità della tecnologia, si addentrano nello spazio digitale come fosse un nuovo territorio di conquista. Ancora una volta, la criminalità organizzata dà prova di essere estremamente flessibile e capace di stare al passo coi tempi. Non si serve più di picciotti rozzi e sfrontati, ma di abili professionisti con competenze nel settore informatico e finanziario.

Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialization of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings. Drawing on his research of over a thousand incidents of hired assassinations, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders are used to exert a mafia-type control over the country’s legal and illegal economic activity. Contracted assassinations, and the organized criminal activity behind them, contain sinister linkages with the upper world, most visibly in relation to disputes over tenders and access to government resources.

Follow infamous Italian mafiosos, cocaine cowboys, hitmen, jewel thieves, outlaw bikers, and others as they leave a trail of carnage on their climb to the top of the criminal underworld. It’s a vicious and dangerous game as determined authorities and bloodthirsty rivals try to take them down by any means necessary. With vivid scenes of murder, mayhem, and millions of dollars, Criminal Escapades chronicles the rise and fall of 20 of the most notorious gangsters to ever walk the cities, slums, and prisons in the modern era.

THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALL In 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by an ex-MI5 agent and International Diamond Security Organization...

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

Alle 16.58 del 19 luglio 1992 in via D’Amelio, a Palermo, scende la notte. Un’esplosione devasta la strada e le auto parcheggiate uccidendo il giudice Paolo Borsellino e cinque agenti della scorta. È l’attentato più annunciato della storia. A meno di due mesi dalla strage di Capaci in cui è morto Giovanni Falcone, senza che sia stato fatto nulla per evitarlo. E senza essere arrivati, trent’anni dopo, a una verità definitiva su mandanti e responsabili.