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Joseph Di Prisco's latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the 50's and 60's. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts of New York State Appellate Division trials, where his dad was the star witness against corrupt NYPD cops--cops with whom he collaborated. Suddenly, Pope's...

Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Sing a Battle Song brings together the three complete and unedited publications produced...

I put a whole lot of bad people in prison, when I was a Denver Policeman. I arrested bank robbers, stick-ups, burglars, big time drug dealers, guys who kidnapped babies, murderers, arsonists, rapist, FBI top ten most wanted, drunk drivers, felons with guns, child molesters and a many other criminals. I loved my job so much that if I could have afforded it I would have paid to be a policeman. My wife of 55yrs told me if I would write the stories the...

A hedonistic descent from innocence to narcissism into the dark culture of IV methamphetamine, psychedelics, organized drug crime and sex in 80's Los Angeles. Pot & alcohol at 14, LSD by 15 and slamming-dope by 17. Scott's high-school friends became a notorious counterfeit & drug-dealing group in L.A. Intense, shocking and brutal to the senses, A Stone's Throw teleports you on a journey he barely survived. A sinister, secret society of sex, crime...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, from Bar Harbor to Boca Raton, the ragtag crew known as the K&A Gang robbed wealthy suburban neighborhoods with assembly line skills. It was hard to imagine a more unlikely crew of successful thieves, writes Allen Hornblum. [They were] two-fisted, beer-guzzling, ear- and nose-biting hoodlums from a blue-collar section of Philadelphia called Kensington. The gang infuriated homeowners up and down the East Coast, while baffling...

Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in the United States in August 2001. He is currently in a federal prison in Virginia, charged with "conspiring with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania." Moussaoui , who trained to be a pilot in Oklahoma, admits to being a member of Al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the events of September 11. He has opted to defend himself. Written by his brother,...

Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided: the absence of women's voices then, and in the retelling; the incompetence...

They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in '60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the Motherfuckers, who influenced the Yippies and members of SDS; makes vivid the art, music, and politics of the era; and reveals the colorful,...

Le 10 juillet 2022, l'annonce de la mort de Maurice «MOM» Boucher, clt un sombre volet de l'histoire du crime organisé au Québec. L'ancien président du chapitre Nomads des Hells Angels, purgeait une peine d'emprisonnement à perpétuité pour avoir commandé les meurtres de deux gardiens de prison, Diane Lavigne et Pierre Rondeau. Maurice «MOM» Boucher, le chef de guerre des motards, est l'un des criminels les plus notoires de l'histoire du...

"An unprecedented look inside a ruthless and obscenely wealthy branch of the Italian Mafia and the electrifying story of the brave women who decided to fight back"-- Provided by publisher. The Calabrian Mafia is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls most of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe, brokers illegal arms deals, and plunders the treasuries of...