Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels The dirty bankers & businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella a wealthy mob-connected big shot living the good life Together they partied in expensive hotels drank the world's finest champagnes drove Rolls-Royce convertibles & flew in private jets But under Mazur's designer suits & hidden away in his quality briefcase recorders whirred quietly capturing the damning evidence of their crimes Then at his own staged wedding he led a dramatic takedown that shook the underworld In the end more than eighty men & women were charged worldwide Operation C-Chase became one of the most successful undercover operations in the history of US law enforcement & evidence gathered during the bust proved critical to the conviction of General Manuel Noriega The Infiltrator is the true story of how Mazur's undercover work helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords
- including Pablo Escobar & the infamous Medillin cartel
- corrupt politicians tax cheats & terrorists It is a shocking chronicle of the rise & fall of perhaps the biggest & most intricate money-laundering operation of all time & at its heart it's a vivid portrait of an undercover life & the sacrifices it requires Filled with dangerous lies near misses & harrowing escapes The Infiltrator is as bracing & explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers
- only it's all true


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A science-fiction series that asks the age-old question " What would you risk for a chance at true love?" Meet Teddy a young woman who lives in a faraway future where time traveling is a common practice & her job is to maintain the status quo by correcting time paradoxes But when she meets Ano "a time paradox" & the girl of her dreams Teddy must decide between fixing the time stream or the love of her life both of which have unique consequences A dynamically graphic science-fictiony poetical paradoxical wunderkind of a sexy time-traveling adventure-packed comic ...

In this game-changing book University of Cambridge Professor Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between depression & inflammation of the body & brain 256 pages Bullmore Edward ...

A cutting-edge research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us & how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better Part of our daily job as humans is to influence others; we teach our children guide our patients advise our clients help our friends & inform our online followers We do this because we each have unique experiences & knowledge that others may not But how good are we at this role? It turns out we systematically fall back on suboptimal habits when trying to change other's beliefs & behaviors Many of these instincts-from trying to scare people into action to insisting the other is wrong or attempting to exert control-are ineffective because they are incompatible with how the mind operates The principle idea of this book is that an attempt to change will be successful if it is well-matched with the core elements that govern how our brain works Sharot unveils the hidden power of influence good & bad & enables us to identify instances in which we fall prey to delusions The book will search deep below the surface-relying on the latest research in neuroscience & psychology-to provide new insight into human behavior ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play When financial pressures escalate Marc Duval (Gilles Lellouche Mesrine) a Frenchman expatriated to Gibraltar becomes a spy for French customs on the nation s border Navigating through debase trafficking & shady cargo he slowly wins the confidence of Claudio Lanfredi (Riccardo Scamarcio) a powerful but dangerous cocaine importer As Duval becomes further immersed in both the perils & temptations of the drug trafficking underworld he is forced to live on a knife edge where only his lies can keep him alive But it is when English customs land to arrest Lanfredi that Duval must take the greatest risk of all placing his family in the heights of jeopardy Inspired by true events the writer of Mesrine & A Prophet brings a hard-hitting suspense thriller that will make you question the very borders of the land you call home Actors Gilles Lelouche Tahar Ramin Riccardo Scamarcio Directors Julien Leclercq Format PALLanguage French English Subtitles English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Comedy crime drama from director Steven Soderberg starring Matt Damon & Scott Bakula based on the true story told in the best-selling book by Kurt Eichenwald Mark Whitacre (Damon) was a high flier in a hugely successful agricultural foods company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) who along with other senior employees engaged in price fixing until he decided to turn informer for the FBI gathering evidence against the corrupt company Whitacre agreed to wear a wire & take recordings all under the misguided impression that he would emerge from the investigation as the good guy However the FBI gradually learn that their star informer
- & the key to their whole case
- has not fully disclosed his own suspect dealings & it becomes increasingly difficult for them to determine if Whitacre is being truthful

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Comedy crime drama from director Steven Soderberg starring Matt Damon & Scott Bakula based on the true story told in the best-selling book by Kurt Eichenwald Mark Whitacre (Damon) was a high flier in a hugely successful agricultural foods company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) who along with other senior employees engaged in price fixing until he decided to turn informer for the FBI gathering evidence against the corrupt company Whitacre agreed to wear a wire & take recordings all under the misguided impression that he would emerge from the investigation as the good guy However the FBI gradually learn that their star informer
- & the key to their whole case
- has not fully disclosed his own suspect dealings & it becomes increasingly difficult for them to determine if Whitacre is being truthful

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 the world's leading prize for popular science writing We live in the information age But every era of history has had its own information revolution the invention of writing the composition of dictionaries the creation of the charts that made navigation possible the discovery of the electronic signal the cracking of the genetic code In The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use transmit & keep what they know From African talking drums to Wikipedia from Morse code to the bit' it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea & a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives ...

The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...

The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...