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Tokyo Vice
Tokyo Vice
Written by Jake Adelstein
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378798
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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 >
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Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032808
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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 >
American Lightning
American Lightning
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307346957
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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 >
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Written by John Berendt
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679751526
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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 >
No Angel
No Angel
Written by Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307405852
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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 >
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
Written by Truman Capote, Introduction by Bob Colacello
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375507908
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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 >
The First Family
The First Family
Written by Mike Dash
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400067220
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The First Family
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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The Serial Killer Files
The Serial Killer Files
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345465665
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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 >
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Under and Alone
Under and Alone
Written by William Queen
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345487520
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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 >
Runaway Devil
Runaway Devil
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771073601
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Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $23.95

Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April... Read more >
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