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No Angel
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns... Read more >
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns... Read more >
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Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $16.00
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil... Read more >
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $16.00
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil... Read more >
Also available as an
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Written by John Berendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1999
Price: $15.00
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly... Read more >
Written by John Berendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1999
Price: $15.00
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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No Angel
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns... Read more >
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
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The Serial Killer Files
The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $18.95
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the... Read more >
The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $18.95
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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In Cold Blood
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Bob Colacello
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $22.00
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine... Read more >
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Bob Colacello
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $22.00
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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"I Heard You Paint Houses"
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Written by Charles Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.95
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran... Read more >
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Written by Charles Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.95
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Under and Alone
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $7.99
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $7.99
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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American Lightning
Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow... Read more >
Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow... Read more >
