ORGANISED CRIME IS NOW THE COUNTRY'S THIRD BIGGEST INDUSTR GANGLAND SHOOTINGS, MUISI-MILLION POUND DRUG DEALS AN VICIOUS TURF WARS HAVE SPREAD OUT FROM THE INNER CITIES AN NOW AFFECT EVEN THE MOST RURAL COMMUNITIES. THE DAY-TO-DAY IMPACT OF CRIME ON OUR LIVES HAS NEVER BEEN GREATER. IN GANGS, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TONY ' THOMPSON TAKES US ON A GRIPPING JOURNEY INTO THE /UNDERWORLD. FROM TRIAD HUMAN TRAFFICKERS IN DOVER & ECSTASY FACTORY OWNERS IN LIVERPOOL, TO ALBANIAN VICE BARONS IN LONDON & GUN-TOTING TEENAGE CRACK DEALERS IN BIRMINGHAM, GANGS. REVEALS THE INSIDE STORY OF CONTEIVIPORARY ORGANISED CRIME ...

Infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied & far-reaching as Los Angeles, Bulgaria & Kenya. The author, while investigating Neo-Nazi football hooligans in Pol&, is tear-gassed at a football match as he shadows an elite police riot squad. Risking his life, he goes deep into the realms of gangland culture. ...

Life in mid-19 century New York was tough, & violence & corruption were rife. Two gangs, the Dead Rabbits & the Native Americans, were locked in an endless battle for supremacy. Amsterdam Vallon, son of the Rabbits' murdered leader, is seeking vengeance for his father's death at the hands of Bill ' The Butcher'. ...

Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner… & an international jewel thief known as The Black Cat. Now, only the memory of their extraordinary adventure to steal the Crown Jewels lives on. Then something inexplicable happens. World-famous treasures are stolen in the dead of night & the clues point to none other than The Black Cat? But that's impossible? Expect the unexpected in this wonderfully entertaining & laugh-out-loud adventure, which will have readers on the edge of their seats as they join Ben on his quest to unravel the mystery of the return of The Black Cat!   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008581404 •†Author: David Walliams •†Publisher:   Harper Collins Publishers •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 368 •†Dimensions:†19.8 x 12.9 x 2.7 cm ...

It's been two years since legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Las Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. 

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The masochistic orb Gantz has gathered a crew of ordinary citizens to play within its dangerous plot. The new draftees & returning survivors are thrown headfirst into a game promising a far more lethal prey. This time their target is a strange robot in the guise of famed Japanese folk singer Tanaka Seijin. ...

Gantz, Kei Kurono is caught with his pants down. Twice. & the first time he's got to fight the good fight with only one delayed-explosion gun. Has the confidence derived from wearing the fighting suit in the past volumes rubbed off on Kurono enough to help him through this difficult & confusing battle? ...

Gantz is getting absolutely intense. Our protagonist, the eternally awkward otaku boy named Kei, has hunted a bevy of odd & dangerous aliens living in Japan. The Onion Alien was strange enough, but then there were the dinosaur aliens & eventually some vampires who might not be aliens at all. ...

It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. & Kei is the only one who's survived. ...

The crazy world of Gantz just got a heck of a lot crazier! First, there were people being recruited at the moment of death to fight aliens living on earth, but unseen by humanity. The battles seemed to take place outside of human sight. Our reluctant hero, Kei, has lived through many of these battles, but now something strange is happening. ...