Titres dans Crime organisé

London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . . The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by...

From poverty to lucky in love, Belle found her happy ending with a man named Mads…or so everyone thought. But when the wealthy Mads died a mysterious death, Belle collected the life insurance policy and remarried…only for her new husband to drop dead. With things going from strange to sinister, more men mysteriously die or go missing around Belle.

Al Capone was an infamous mob boss between the two world wars in the city of New York and surrounding areas. His name and style have been emulated in movies. The mass shootings, tax evasion, and revenge on Italian murders in the mafia gangs on the United States' East Coast were so notorious that they have become iconic and stereotyped. How did Al Capone get the scars on his face? How did he manage to control so many of the gangs in the cities? How was he able to bribe the police, evade taxes, and become a terror for anyone who opposed him? And how did his life finally come to an end?

SHORTLISTED IN THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024 COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland's love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast to the billion-euro trade it has become. From Ireland's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami...

Brought to you by Penguin. When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state? On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all...

From the author of the number-one international best seller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy.

Twenty year-old "Melodie", a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has "fallen in love" with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Discover how ISIS entraps people such as the teenage girls from Bethnal Green.

Brought to you by Penguin. The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too...

With an introduction by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group...

Aunque en fechas recientes la Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) de la Guardia Civil se ha convertido en el flagelo de la corrupción política, haciendo temblar los cimientos de nuestra democracia, su historia y desempeño son mucho más diversos e interesantes. Casi cualquier ciudadano recordará episodios como el triple asesinato de las niñas de Alcàsser; el secuestro y asesinato del niño Gabriel Cruz («Pececito»); de Diana Quer; de «Lupin», el mayor ciberestafador de España o del robo y recuperación del Beato de Liébana.

Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández dentro del complejo mundo del crimen organizado en México, así como de su incesante búsqueda por entender los diversos componentes de los cárteles de la droga, los cuales tienen sumida a la nación desde hace décadas en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino.

What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a PO box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist brochures and a few scraps of information about the white nationalist terrorists in his community. What he gets is a phone call inviting him to join the KKK. So he does. 

En una época de límites borrosos entre la verdad y la mentira, el caos y el orden, el horror y la indolencia, la delincuencia organizada y el Estado, aparece Aquí no es Miami, un libro de relatos híbridos, aleación entre periodismo y literatura, que aborda lúcidamente las condiciones que germinaron el terror de la llamada Guerra contra el Narcotráfico en un estado especialmente golpeado por esta debacle como lo es Veracruz.

No Return: The Lost Children of Mexico’s Highways by Samantha J. Garcia is an investigative nonfiction account of the disappearance of more than two hundred children along Mexico’s major highway routes. Through research, field reporting, and testimony from families and experts, the audiobook exposes how corruption, organized crime, and weak institutions allow these vanishings to occur.

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking.

Más de dos años han pasado desde que empezó la pandemia por covid-19 en el mundo. Millones de personas han perdido su empleo, han tenido que cerrar sus negocios o han visto más complicado llevar dinero a sus hogares. Sin embargo, no han dejado de ser acosados por esa otra economía, la que demanda voraz sus ingresos pese a las circunstancias. A partir de 13 historias de quienes sufren la violencia en sus múltiples formas, incluyendo la que proviene de las autoridades, Manu Ureste narra cómo el crimen organizado se adaptó con suma agilidad a la pandemia.

Los crímenes del mayor asesino en serie en nuestro país, las mentiras del caso de las niñas de Alcásser, el secuestro y asesinato de un empresario gallego y de su familia... y muchos más casos que vienen a demostrarnos que en España también existe el horror del asesinato. El criminólogo Antonio Trujillo realiza un escalofriante recorrido detallando y analizando los crímenes que estremecieron a España en los últimos años.

Hay historias que mejoran con el tiempo. Sobre todo si suceden en Italia, porque allí las ondas expansivas de las investigaciones judiciales son interestelares: rascas un poco y aparecen conspiraciones de película de serie B en las que no falta ningún elemento, desde grupos terroristas a tramas vaticanas. Parece muy sofisticado, pero no se engañen: la mafia es una fábula estúpida sin ningún glamour.

A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA’S GREAT CRIME EPIC A Mystery Writers of America “Grand Master”—author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner—teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting...

No Way Home is an audiobook memoir of growing up on the run—and what happens when it comes to a stop. Tyler had lived in thirteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. A willful and curious child, she never questioned her strange upbringing, that is, until Scotland Yard showed up...