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「私達のM資金は本物です」「やっぱりあれはあったんですね…」昭和から次々と大企業経営者たちが飲み込まれてきた「Ｍ資金詐欺」。

被害総額60億円。大規模特殊詐欺、強盗、殺人。通称「ルフィ」事件にかかわった実行犯12人の素顔。あまりに短絡的で、心も懐も貧しくなった～現代日本の写し鏡「広域特殊詐欺事件」実行犯…

スマホを通じてあなたにも犯罪者の脅威が忍び寄る！闇バイト、特殊詐欺、路上売春、ランサムウェア……近年ニュースをにぎわす犯罪は、従来の常識を覆すほど「デジタル化」が著しく、犯罪者たちの顔が見えない。

'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James Patterson Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written...

Brought to you by Penguin. London, 1932. Thomas James Wise is the toast of the literary establishment. A prominent collector and businessman, he is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for unearthing the most stunning first editions and bringing them to market. Pompous and fearsome, with...

12 verstörende wahre Kriminalgeschichten von Mord und ChaosBand 17 der Reihe „Wahre Verbrechen"Diese Reihe kann in beliebiger Reihenfolge gehört werdenZwölf sorgfältig recherchierte Berichte über unaussprechliche Verbrechen, die ganze Gemeinden erschütterten und unser Verständnis des Bösen auf die Probe stellen. Von prachtvollen Anwesen bis hin zu ruhigen Kleinstädten – diese Fälle beweisen, wie sich tödliche Absichten hinter alltäglichen Fassaden verbergen, oft dort, wo wir sie am wenigsten erwarten.

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into...

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei — a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect — pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was...

From the moment an eccentric woman walked into the Knoedler Gallery with a Mark Rothko painting, everyone was fooled. For the next ten years, she ran an $80 million forgery ring, selling or consigning forty expertly crafted counterfeits claimed to be the works of Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and others. Director of the documentary Made You Look Barry Avrich reveals new information, evidence, and inside stories about how a quixotic art dealer, master forger, and two cunning con artists managed to fool billionaire art collectors, journalists, and esteemed art appraisers.

When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year “A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” —Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times...

David Miller had a dream job and a beautiful family. But one perfect life wasn't enough. So he pretended to be an attorney, then a CIA agent. And he secretly married another woman. He juggled it all quite well—until the day his two wives found out about each other. Miller groped for ways to hold on to his finances and reputation. But when he tried using a gun to silence his second wife, his carefully constructed façade of power and wealth exploded.

After parting ways with the eponymous McAfee Antivirus software company in 1994, John McAfee embarked on innumerable business, political, and criminal enterprises. From investing in cybersecurity and cryptocurrency to accusations of murdering his neighbor in Belize to making two unsuccessful bids for President of the United States—the latter attempt done in exile following a federal indictment—this larger-than-life man nurtured a rakish public profile while evading law enforcement for his involvement with drugs, weapons, and murder.

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar...

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as his life disintegrated, his self-esteem eroded, and he lined the pockets of Gans and her cult.  

It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Spider Network by David Enrich, read by Mike Chamberlain. Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The Spider Network is the almost-unbelievable and darkly entertaining inside account of the Libor scandal – one of the...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen comes the true story behind one of America’s most shocking cases of religious manipulation and murder. On the day after Christmas 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a small house on a quiet...

Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say the police have been calling murder an accident. They have a name for it–serial murder. They have a map–the first thirty-five cases fell along one stretch of Interstate 94, from Michigan to Montana. They have smiley faces spray-painted near the water where the men went in, and a victim count that started at forty and eventually passed seven hundred. The FBI says there is no evidence any of it is connected.

The justice system is not what the public imagines. A police force that is crumbling, suffocating under the bureaucracy and perverse incentives of those at the top. Domestic abusers walking free whilst victims are being failed. Broken homes leaving children to be groomed into a world of crime. A court system that is corrupted by politics, holding on by a thread. A prison system hollowed out for profit. Is justice working, and is it truly blind and fair for all?