Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37879-8 (0-307-37879-9)

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

McMafia
A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Written by Misha Glenny

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9512-4 (1-4000-9512-3)

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would... Read more >

While They Slept
An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
Written by Kathryn Harrison

Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-51660-2 (0-345-51660-5)

Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free... Read more >

Last Chance in Texas
The Redemption of Criminal Youth
Written by John Hubner

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75998-7 (0-375-75998-0)

A powerful, bracing, and deeply spiritual look at intensely troubled youth, Last Chance In Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.

While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that ran the most aggressive--and one of... Read more >

The Snakehead
An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Written by Patrick Radden Keefe

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-385-52130-7 (0-385-52130-8)

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss

In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the... Read more >

High
Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler
Written by Brian O'Dea

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-310-1 (1-59051-310-X)

Having completed a ten-year sentence for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, Brian O’Dea placed a classified ad headed “Former Marijuana Smuggler” in the Employment Wanted section of a newspaper–a typical act for a resilient and impudent man. Among the advertiser’s references was the U.S. district attorney who... Read more >