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¿Quién fue el sangriento asesino escocés que inspiró la historia de Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde? ¿Cómo hizo un famoso anatomista británico para asesinar y además vender los cadáveres de sus víctimas? ¿Cómo se las ingenió Ann Cotton para matar a cuatro maridos, once hijos y dos amantes sin levantar sospechas? El primer juicio "del siglo" lo protagonizó una joven supermodelo. En Alemania levantaron la única estatua en el mundo para homenajear a un ladrón. En Francia un hombre vendió dos veces la torre Eiffel y se animó a estafar a Al Capone.

Historians have previously glazed over the Mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores. Through these and other lives - including legendary mobsters Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Seigel - Ferrante tells the extraordinary story of the Mafia's rise in America, as they provided alcohol during Prohibition, created the gambling mecca Las Vegas and practically took over the island of Cuba.

Three very different men battle to control their destinies as they hurtle through the hall of mirrors of the global shadow economy. Each man, born in radically different circumstances in the 1960s, is in his own way grappling with the powerful and unstoppable forces that shape the world around us; forces which topple governments, send refugees fleeing across borders, and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias. Each has devoted his whole life to an institution - and each will eventually be destroyed or betrayed by the thing they believe in the most.

James 'Jimmy Two Guns' McIntyre was Glasgow's go-to gangland lawyer and consigliere to one of Scotland's foremost crime families. His maverick approach to the law and a client list that included some of the most feared gangland figures of the time - including the McGoverns and Paul Ferris - ensured that he was always in demand but under the constant scrutiny of the authorities.

Ha fama di playboy esuberante. È appassionato d'arte e archeologia oltre che di automobili e abbigliamento di lusso; ama Diabolik e i videogiochi, cita la Bibbia e Daniel Pennac. È un assassino spietato: «Con le persone che ho ucciso» dice «potrei riempirci un cimitero». Pupillo di Totò Riina, da Castelvetrano, in provincia di Trapani, ha costruito il proprio impero arrivando ai vertici della mafia.

Er steht mit einem Kopfgeld von fünf Millionen Dollar auf der Most-Wanted-Liste des FBI. Er steckt hinter vielen Konflikten dieser Welt. Er wird seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten von Geheimdiensten wie CIA, NSA, MI6, Mossad, BND gejagt: Der Chinese Karl Lee gilt ihnen als gefährlichster Mann der Welt. Es beginnt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ein ehemaliger FBI-Analyst meldet sich aus dem Nichts bei den Autoren, international bekannten Investivativreportern. Er berichtet von der langjährigen Suche nach einem Chinesen, der gefährlichste Waffentechnik verkauft. Der alle Embargos unterläuft.

Killing Goldfinger charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld. Palmer earned his nickname Goldfinger after smelting (in his back garden) tens of millions of pounds worth of stolen gold bullion from the 20th century's most lucrative heist; the Brink's-Mat robbery. Palmer then used his share of the millions to become the vicious overlord of a vast illegal timeshare property empire in Tenerife.

Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit. DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy. Then the wife of one of Harry's colleagues is discovered dead in her car, and Clare realises there is something more sinister at play… Can she find out who's behind the murders before they turn their attention to her?

D. 3. januar 1960 flygtede tre fanger fra det berygtede fængsel Alcatraz, også kendt som ’The Rock’. De tre fanger Frank Lee Moris og brødrene John og Clarence Anglin flygtede om natten på en flåde væk fra øen, hvor fængslet lå. Flåden og mændene blev aldrig fundet igen. Det, der blev fundet, var en paddelåre. FLUGTEN FRA ALCATRAZ er en del af FAMØSE FANGEFLUGTER, en true crime serie om menneskers trang til frihed. Det er sande fortællinger om kriminelle, der kæmper for at undslippe den monotone tilværelse bag tremmer på de mest udspekulerede måder.

While some of these cases are sure to tickle the memory of any true crime enthusiast, some might just be new to you. One thing all these cold cases have in common is that they’ve finally been solved, some with incredibly shocking outcomes.

King of the New York Streets is a gritty, utterly unrepentant memoir of growing up on the mean streets of New York City during the late 1970s.

If you want to uncover the secrets of one of the most notorious criminal organizations in American history, then you need to listen to this audiobook. Within these chapters is a riveting and in-depth exploration of the shadowy history of the DeCavalcante family, from their origins to their ultimate downfall.

When legendary old school villain Paul Massey immersed himself in the murky world of his modern-day counterparts, he was executed with a machine gun on the drive of his home. Contained within this audiobook is his story.

The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers­-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.

Día a día, lo sepan o no, los habitantes de la capital del país se someten a los dictados de mafiosos del agua, gangsters de los mercados, pandilleros del comercio, líderes de ambulantes, transportistas piratas, cárteles inmobiliarios, sindicatos tenebrosos y tratantes de personas… además de la delincuencia común. En la ciudad que alberga los poderes de la Unión, no se mueve una hoja sin que las mafias lo decidan.

Il primo atlante mondiale della grande criminalità. Le mafie sono cambiate immensamente negli ultimi decenni. Fanno meno morti, forse, ma sono molto più potenti, ramificate, ricche. Si sono internazionalizzate, spesso hanno lasciato gli affari «piccoli» (prostituzione, gioco d’azzardo ecc.) a organizzazioni minori per concentrarsi su più redditizi business (dal traffico d’armi a quello di organi ed esseri umani all’emigrazione al traffico delle scorie radioattive ecc.).

There is a torture mom in this collection whom many true crime audiences still can’t forgive and forget even till today. Together with six other serial killers, they have done it all, from torturing to cannibalism to killing hundreds.

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.

The story of one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his meteoric rise to fame. In tracing Danny "Tekashi 6ix9ine" Hernandez's life from Bushwick to the heights of the rap scene, Complex reporter Shawn Setaro illuminates the story of the young rapper who forged an alliance with a notorious street gang to bolster his image and boost his internet clout.

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a...