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Only a month after his
arrest for planting bombs
which killed three and
mutilated scores in
London in 1999, Nazi
nailbomber David Copeland
began a passionate
correspondence with a
delightful young English
rose called Patsy. As he
awaited trial, Copeland
bombarded Patsy with
letters detailing his
disturbed background,
crackpot beliefs and most
intimate feelings.
Through letters alone,
he fell madly in love
with his tender-hearted
penfriend.But Copeland
wasn't writing to the
petite 20-year-old blonde
of his imagination. His
'sweetheart' was in fact
a burly 40-year-old
nightclub bouncer called
Bernard O'Mahoney, who
in the past had used the
same means to coax
confessions from two
child-killers.
O'Mahoney's earlier
hoaxes helped secure life
sentences for these
murderers and so too did
his correspondence with
Copeland when the letters
surfaced at the
nailbomber's Old Bailey
trial. But the
extraordinary tale of how
O'Mahoney snared Copeland
is only a small part of
Hateland's larger, more
remarkable story. For the
book is primarily the
narrative of O'Mahoney's
own gradual transition
from Nazi thug to Nazi
opponent. It marks his
public renunciation of
the hate-filled world he
left behind and of the
racist misfit he once
was. In Hateland,
O'Mahoney writes with
unblinking honesty about
the violence he inflicted
upon others, and that
which he was subjected
to, during his time as a
foot soldier of fascism.
His frank analysis of his
background, motivation
and actions produces a
disturbing self-portrait
that offers a chilling
but often darkly comic
insight into many of the
strange individuals who
constitute Britain's
fascist movement.
Gradually disillusioned
and ashamed - partly as a
result of his unexpected
friendships with blacks
and Asians - O'Mahoney's
decisive break with his
Nazi past comes when he
infiltrates.........
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Assassin, noun: a
person who commits
murder; especially; one
who murders a politically
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Sometimes the best
intentions can have the
worst results. In 1905,
British reformers banned
the export of Indian
opium to China. As a
result, the world price
of opium soared to a new
high and a century of
lucrative drug smuggling
began. Criminal producers
in other countries
exploited the prohibition
and gang wars broke out
across South-East Asia.
It was the greatest gift
the British Empire gave
to organised
crime.
Empire
of Crime introduces
the reader to a whole new
collection of heroes and
villains, including
pioneering narcotics
investigator
Major-General Russell
Pasha, commandant of the
Cairo police force;
master criminal Du
Yue-Sheng, drug lord of
the Shanghai underworld;
and tough, Pashtofluent
North-West Frontier
police chief
Lieutenant-Colonel
Roos-Keppel, nemesis of
Afghan criminal
gangs.
Author Tim
Newark weaves hidden
reports, secret
government files and
personal letters together
with first-hand accounts
to tell the epic story of
a global fight against
organised
crime.
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Mad Frankie Fraser has
become a household name,
known to millions as one
of London's most
notorious gangsters. In
Mad Frank's London - his
fourth book - Frank
continues the shocking
stories of his life of
crime.
Frankie Fraser
recalls the good and the
bad times, brings the
criminals of his
acquaintance to life,
and guides us through the
darker streets of London
- as only a born
Londoner, and true
gangster could.
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Michael Finkel was a top
New York Times Magazine
journalist publicly fired
and disgraced for making
up a composite character
for a big investigative
news piece about Africa.
This book is about how
this brilliant,
hardliving, high
achieving journalist
found himself at that
point in his life; but in
parallel it's also about
Christian Longo, a man
accused of the multiple
murder of his own wife
and 3 children (their
bodies were found in
Oregon waterways, the
largest and the smallest
in suitcases), who then
passed himself off as
Michael Finkel, NY
journalist, while on the
run in Mexico.
These
two weird stories come
together as Finkel in
turn becomes fascinated
(obsessed, even) with
Longo the accused
murderer, who while in
prison would talk only to
Finkel. Who is using
whom? It's all about
truth and lies, and
where journalistic truth
deviates from reality;
and about lives that take
a wrong turning. It's
very well written,
disturbing in many ways
and utterly gripping.
There is an acknowledged
moral ambiguity about the
whole venture which makes
it problematic but even
more interesting- And in
April 2003 Longo, who
had pleaded guilty only
to 2 counts of murder,
was sentenced to death
for all 4. Finkel visited
and talked to him
throughout the
trial.
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Michael Finkel was a top
New York Times Magazine
journalist publicly fired
and disgraced for making
up a composite character
for a big investigative
news piece about Africa.
This book is about how
this brilliant,
hardliving, high
achieving journalist
found himself at that
point in his life; but in
parallel it's also about
Christian Longo, a man
accused of the multiple
murder of his own wife
and 3 children (their
bodies were found in
Oregon waterways, the
largest and the smallest
in suitcases), who then
passed himself off as
Michael Finkel, NY
journalist, while on the
run in Mexico. These two
weird stories come
together as Finkel in
turn becomes fascinated
(obsessed, even) with
Longo the accused
murderer, who while in
prison would talk only to
Finkel. Who is using
whom-? It's all about
truth and lies, and
where journalistic truth
deviates from reality;
and about lives that take
a wrong turning. It's
very well written,
disturbing in many ways
and utterly gripping.
There is an acknowledged
moral ambiguity about the
whole venture which makes
it problematic but even
more interesting- And in
April 2003 Longo, who
had pleaded guilty only
to 2 counts of murder,
was sentenced to death
for all 4. Finkel visited
and talked to him
throughout the trial.
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Running With The Krays
lifts the lid off
London's underworld,
from street gangs and
race-course con games to
protection rackets,
beatings, maimings,
intimidation and even
murders. It reveals
elements of police
corruption and provides
insights into the
interdependence of both
sides of the underworld
scene - a compelling and
gruesome account of how
the other half of London
lives.
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Tracing its beginnings as
an underground society
which sprang up in
Sicily, to the Mob which
went on to run organised
crime throughout Italy
and America, The
Mafia: The First 100
Years tells the
gripping story of the
most mythical and
misunderstood criminal
organisation.
How
did the Mob evolve from a
gang of bumbling killers
into the smooth-running
international
'corporation' of today?
Drawing on nearly two
decades of research,
William Balsamo -
great-nephew of the
original godfather - and
George Carpozi Jr. reveal
the Mafia's coalescence
into an organisation
whose insidious influence
reached across the
Atlantic and into a
presidential
administration.
Delving behind
the headlines to uncover
the true extent of the
Mafia's influence,
The Mafia: The First
100 Years reads like
the most compelling crime
fiction, yet is the
terrifying, deadly
truth.
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In December 1968 two
girls - Mary Bell,
eleven, and Norma Bell,
thirteen (neighbours,
but not related) - stood
before a criminal court
in Newcastle, accused of
strangling, within a
six-week period, Martin
Brown, four years old,
and Brian Howe, three.
Norma was acquitted. Mary
Bell, the younger but
infinitely more
sophisticated and cooler
of the two, was found
guilty of manslaughter
rather than murder
because of 'diminished
responsibility' and was
sentenced to 'detention'
for life. Step by step,
the extraordinary
murders, the events
surrounding them, the
alternately bizzare and
nonchalant behaviour of
the two girls, their
brazen offers to help the
distraught families of
the dead boys, the
police work that led to
their apprehension, and
the trial that itself are
grippinly re-created in
this rare-study of the
wanton murder of child by
child. What emerges with
equal force is the
inability of society to
anticipate such events
and to take adequate
steps once disaster has
struck.
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In May 2003 the body of
nineteen-year-old Jessica
Kate Williams was found
by a railway track in
Portland Oregon: beaten,
broken and horribly
burnt. But the terrible
chain of events that led
to her death had been put
in place almost a decade
before.
James
Daniel Nelson first hit
the streets as a teenager
in 1992, joining a
clutch of runaways and
misfits who camped out
together in a squat under
a Portland bridge. Within
a few months the
group
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Filled with intriguing
true stories, and packed
with black-and-white
illustrations and
photographs, The
Forensic Casebook
draws on interviews with
police personnel and
forensic scientists -
including animal
examiners, botanists,
zoologists, firearms
specialists, and
autopsists - to uncover
the vast and detailed
under workings of
criminal investigation.
Encyclopaedic in
scope, this riveting,
authoritative book leaves
no aspect of forensic
science untouched,
covering such fascinating
topics as securing a
crime scene, identifying
blood splatter patterns,
collecting fingerprints,
and feet, lip and ear
prints and career paths
in criminal science.
Lucidly written
and spiked with real
crime stories, The
Forensic Casebook
exposes the nitty-gritty
that other books only
touch
upon.
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Killing Charlie
charts the
extraordinary rise and
spectacular fall of
Charlie Wilson,
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There has been no other
epoch in American history
where corruption,
debauchery, sleaze and
horrific murder has
intersected with a
society as speciously
glittering and innocent
as the Los Angeles of the
1940s and 50s.
The
Tinseltown of that age
had movie star glamour on
the surface but a dark,
violent and unrepentant
heart. None knew this
dichotomy better than the
Los Angeles Police
Department, whose story
became the most
successful police drama
in television history,
Dragnet. Jack Webb
was the star and creator
of the show, but much of
what he unearthed was too
sensational to be
broadcast on prime time.
Those stories he saved
for his classic, The
Badge.
Crimes
like the sex slaying of
Betty Short, the Black
Dahlia: tortured for
days, drained of blood,
cut in two and dumped in
Leimert Park, the
subject of James
Ellroy
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Herbert Asbury, author
of The Gangs of New York
and The Gangs of Chicago,
turns his attention to
chronicle the seedy
underworld of San
Francisco, from its
gold-rush glories to its
subterranean opium dens.
Houses of ill repute play
host to shanghaied
sailors, and the Chinese
tong wars rage around the
city. San Francisco's
historic past is here
brought to life in all
its scintillating and
infamous glory.
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Peter Manuel was an
icy-eyed psychopath and
sexual predator, a petty
thief and a relentless
liar given to violent and
uncontrollable rages. His
unprecedented crimes
presented the Scottish
police and public with a
new sort of criminal: the
ruthless serial killer.
Manuel was
hanged at the age of
thirty-one and convicted
of seven murders, but
suspected of many more.
He slew many of his
victims as they lay
sleeping in bed, while
others were picked up in
lonely places and
strangled or savagely
beaten to death. Right up
to his final arrest, he
played a taunting game
with the police, mocking
their bungling attempts
to trap him and
continuing to kill with
impunity
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Peter Manuel was an
icy-eyed psychopath and
sexual predator, a petty
thief and a relentless
liar given to violent and
uncontrollable rages. His
unprecedented crimes
presented the Scottish
police and public with a
new sort of criminal: the
ruthless serial killer.
Manuel was hanged
at the age of thirty-one
and convicted of seven
murders, but suspected
of many more. He slew
many of his victims as
they lay sleeping in bed,
while others were picked
up in lonely places and
strangled or savagely
beaten to death. Right up
to his final arrest, he
played a taunting game
with the police, mocking
their bungling attempts
to trap him and
continuing to kill with
impunity
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In December 1995, three
key members of the
infamous Essex Boys firm
were executed in their
Range Rover after being
lured to a deserted farm
track by the promise of a
lucrative drug deal. The
police predicted that the
void left as a result of
the murders would cause a
gangland war that would
extend across London and
much of the
south-east.
Essex
Boys, The New
Generation tells the
chilling true story of
the gang that destroyed
everything that stood in
their way to take control
of their fallen
predecessors
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Glasgow is known as the
murder capital of Britain
and no one understands
why better than Joe
Jackson. For over 30
years, Jackson worked
the crime beat, first as
a uniformed cop then as a
seasoned murder squad
detective. In this
hard-hitting memoir of
his most memorable cases,
he reveals the reality
behind chasing killers
and other crooks in
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Mr Nasty charts the rise,
fall and ultimate
redemption of a wannabe
player in the global
narcotics business. From
humble beginnings on the
streets of London's East
End, Cameron White
rapidly ascended the drug
ladder of London's club
scene before notorious
local criminals forced
him to move to the US.
There, he soon found
himself aboard a
cocaine-fuelled
roller-coaster ride,
transporting him from
encounters with
psychotic, crack-dealing
Jamaicans in New York to
luncheons with
Hollywood's glitterati.
The American adventure
was to reach its
inevitable conclusion in
a drive-by shooting in
the barrios of LA.Back in
London, a dull
nine-to-five existence
did nothing to quell
White's
narco-inclinations. Cue a
chemical vacation in
Thailand and an
effortless metamorphosis
from recreational drug
user to fully fledged
smack addict in Berlin.
White's eventual wake-up
call came after he robbed
some innocent tourists to
feed his heroin habit.
Stunned to realise how
low he had sunk, he was
determined to get clean
and his gold-star efforts
at rehabilitation were
rewarded with an
opportunity to start
again in Australia. Faced
with temptation once
more, White's good
intentions were to prove
short-lived and he slid
into the murky world of
substance abuse in
Sydney. But this time
things were different and
a gradual but
life-defining epiphany
rescued White from the
edge. Mr Nasty is a
thrilling yet cautionary
tale of a decade lived
within the narcotics
underworld. Illuminating
both the exciting and
destructive sides of such
an existence, it is
ultimately a testament to
how a strong will can
sometimes overcome the
lure of vice and break
the chains of addiction.
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A beautiful island lying
in the northern part of
the Irish Sea between
England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales, the
Isle of Man was once a
popular holiday
destination. It is
perhaps better known
today for the TT
motorcycle races held
there, its tail-less
cats and Manx kippers.
However, with a
population of around 75,
000 it also has its
darker side.MANX MURDERS
is a gripping and
mysterious collection of
murder cases committed on
the island over the last
150 years, from the
brutal murder of a
spinster one dark night
on a lonely track near
Ramsey to an equally
savage attack on a widow
in her garden in the busy
centre of Douglas. Both
murders, incidentally
remain unsolved to this
day. The complex
political situation that
existed in an internment
camp during World War I,
which led to the fatal
stabbing of one Finnish
prisoner by another, is
also covered. So too is
the bizarre, seemingly
motiveless murder
involving two British
Army officers in another
camp during World War II.
There is also the
bewildering incident of a
once loving father and
husband who killed three
of his young children
before committing suicide
and the disturbing case
in which a toddler was
battered to death by his
mother's lover. Using
information obtained from
newspapers, inquest
records and trial
transcripts whenever
these were available,
each murder is described
against the back-drop of
events on the island at
the time and has been
carefully reconstructed
in a way that gives the
reader a distinct flavour
of life there during the
period in which the crime
occurred. This
informative and
fascinating collection is
sure to evoke a number of
conflicting emotions in
the reader. While each
case is unique, all
share an overwhelming
sadness and tragedy
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Twenty-five years after
Richard Ramirez left
thirteen dead,
paralysing the city of
Los Angeles, his name is
still synonymous with
fear, torture and
sadistic murder. Philip
Carlo's US bestseller
The Night Stalker,
based on three years of
meticulous research and
extensive interviews with
Ramirez, revealed the
killer and his horrifying
crimes to be even more
chilling than anyone
could have imagined. From
watching his cousin
commit murder at age
eleven to his nineteen
death sentences to the
juror who fell in love
with him, the story of
Ramirez is a bizarre and
spellbinding descent into
the very heart of human
evil.
Incredibly, after The
Night Stalker was
first published,
thousands of women from
all over the world
started to contact Carlo,
begging to be put in
touch with the killer.
Carlo began to interview
them and, in this
compelling new edition,
presents their disturbing
stories and the dark
sexual desires that would
drive them towards a
brutal murderer. Also,
in an exclusive death-row
interview, the killer
himself gives his
thoughts on
the
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The true story behind the
most infamous mass murder
case ever.
On
August 9th 1969,
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This book traces the
Mafia's beginnings from
an underground patriotic
society which sprang up
six hundred years ago in
Sicily, through the
group of Italian
immigrants - the Black
Hand - who savagely tore
control of New York's
waterfronts away from
Irish racketeers, to the
Mob which went on to run
organised crime
throughout Italy and
America.
Drawing
on previously unavailable
information and nearly
two decades of research,
William Balsamo -
great-nephew of the first
godfather - and George
Carpozi Jr. trace the
Black Hand's coalescence
into an organisation
whose insidious influence
reached across the
Atlantic and into a
presidential
administration. And they
go behind the headlines
to reveal with chilling
clarity the true extent
of the Mafia's influence
today.
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As research for his
acclaimed true-crime
books, Philip Carlo
interviewed at length
some of the most infamous
criminals and killers of
our times in prison and
on death row. He was able
to forge a trusting
relationship with his
subjects, enabling him
to extract the facts
behind their infamy and
identify what motivated
them to commit their
horrific crimes.
His successful
books reveal the truth
about notorious
characters such as LA
serial killer Richard
Ramirez (The Night
Stalker), Mafia
contract killer Richard
Kuklinski (The Ice
Man) and crime-family
boss Anthony Casso
(Gaspipe), and,
working closely with the
DEA, Carlo also wrote
the definitive account of
Bonanno Mafia family
assassin Tommy 'Karate'
Pitera (The
Butcher).
Carlo
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Twenty-five years after
Richard Ramirez left
thirteen dead,
paralysing the city of
Los Angeles, his name is
still synonymous with
fear, torture and
sadistic murder. Philip
Carlo's US bestseller
The Night Stalker,
based on three years of
meticulous research and
extensive interviews with
Ramirez, revealed the
killer and his horrifying
crimes to be even more
chilling than anyone
could have imagined. From
watching his cousin
commit murder at age
eleven to his nineteen
death sentences to the
juror who fell in love
with him, the story of
Ramirez is a bizarre and
spellbinding descent into
the very heart of human
evil.
Incredibly,
after The Night
Stalker was first
published, thousands of
women from all over the
world started to contact
Carlo, begging to be put
in touch with the killer.
Carlo began to interview
them and, in this
compelling new edition,
presents their disturbing
stories and the dark
sexual desires that would
drive them towards a
brutal murderer. Also,
in an exclusive death-row
interview, the killer
himself gives his
thoughts on
the
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It was a time of hope and
desperation, a time of
reckoning...
In
the early
1960s,
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Twenty-five years after
Richard Ramirez left
thirteen dead,
paralysing the city of
Los Angeles, his name is
still synonymous with
fear, torture and
sadistic murder. Philip
Carlo's US bestseller
The Night Stalker,
based on three years of
meticulous research and
extensive interviews with
Ramirez, reveals the
killer and his horrifying
crimes to be even more
chilling than anyone
could have imagined. From
watching his cousin
commit murder when
Ramirez was 12 to his 19
death sentences and the
juror who fell in love
with him, the story of
Ramirez is a bizarre and
spellbinding descent into
the very heart of human
evil.
Incredibly, after The
Night Stalker was
first published,
thousands of women from
all over the world
started to contact Carlo,
begging to be put in
touch with the killer.
Carlo began to interview
them and, in this
compelling new edition,
presents their disturbing
stories and the dark
sexual desires that drove
them towards a brutal
murderer. Also, in an
exclusive death-row
interview, the killer
himself gives his
thoughts on
the
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As research for his
acclaimed true-crime
books, Philip Carlo has
interviewed at length
some of the most infamous
criminals and killers of
our times in prison and
on death row. He has been
able to forge a trusting
relationship with his
subjects, enabling him
to extract the facts
behind their infamy and
identify what motivated
them to commit their
horrific crimes.
His successful books
reveal the truth about
notorious characters such
as LA serial killer
Richard Ramirez (The
Night Stalker),
Mafia contract killer
Richard Kuklinski (The
Ice Man) and
crime-family boss Anthony
Casso (Gaspipe),
and, working closely
with the DEA, Carlo also
wrote the definitive
account of Bonanno Mafia
family assassin Tommy
'Karate' Pitera (The
Butcher).
Carlo
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In December 1995, three
key members of the
infamous Essex Boys firm
were executed in their
Range Rover after being
lured to a deserted farm
track by the promise of a
lucrative drug deal. The
police predicted that the
void left as a result of
the murders would cause a
gangland war that would
extend across London and
much of the
south-east.
Essex Boys, The New
Generation tells the
chilling true story of
the gang that destroyed
everything that stood in
their way to take control
of their fallen
predecessors
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As research for his
acclaimed true-crime
books, Philip Carlo
interviewed at length
some of the most infamous
criminals and killers of
our times in prison and
on death row. He was able
to forge a trusting
relationship with his
subjects, enabling him
to extract the facts
behind their infamy and
identify what motivated
them to commit their
horrific crimes.
His successful books
reveal the truth about
notorious characters such
as LA serial killer
Richard Ramirez (The
Night Stalker),
Mafia contract killer
Richard Kuklinski (The
Ice Man) and
crime-family boss Anthony
Casso (Gaspipe),
and, working closely
with the DEA, Carlo also
wrote the definitive
account of Bonanno Mafia
family assassin Tommy
'Karate' Pitera (The
Butcher).
Carlo
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