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Mike Dash
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Mike Dash is a historian with an M.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. A former professional journalist whose work has appeared in numerous national newspapers and magazines, Dash is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Satan’s Circus, Thug, Batavia’s Graveyard, and Tulipomania. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
Written by Mike Dash
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello–known as “The Clutch Hand”–and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known... Read more >

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Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Written by Mike Dash
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $15.95
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became... Read more >

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The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Written by Mike Dash
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $13.95
In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate... Read more >

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The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Written by Mike Dash
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $15.95
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly.
The company also sent along a... Read more >

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Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Written by Mike Dash
Read by David Ackroyd
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $29.95
Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder.
They called it Satan’s Circus–a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, murder was... Read more >
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Written by Mike Dash
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $27.00
Explore the Borderlands...
* The charred remains of Helen Conway, whose body "exploded."
Was this a case of spontaneous combustion?
* Discoveries of 130-foot-long boa constrictors and twelve-foot giant kangaroos.
What other species have gone undiscovered?
*In England, a town is pelted from the sky by hundreds of tiny rose-colored frogs.
Is this a one-time event... Read more >
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Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Written by Mike Dash
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became... Read more >
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Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Written by Mike Dash
Read by David Ackroyd
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.98
Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder.
They called it Satan’s Circus–a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, murder was... Read more >
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The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Meeting
Written by Mike Dash
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $15.95
From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The... Read more >
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Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Written by Mike Dash
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $22.50
Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder.
They called it Satan’s Circus–a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, murder was so... Read more >
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Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
Written by Mike Dash
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello–known as “The Clutch Hand”–and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known... Read more >











