Boss of Bosses
The FBI and Paul Castellano
Written by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
Paul Castellano headed New York's immensely powerful Gambino crime family for more than ten years. On December 16, 1985, he was gunned down in a spectacular shooting on Manhattan's fashionable East Side.
At the time of his death, Paul Castellano was under indictment. So were most of the major Mafia figures...
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Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.95
A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal...
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El rey de cocaina
Written by Ayda Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $16.00
Bautizado por la prensa internacional como “el rey de la cocaína”, Roberto Suárez Gómez llegó a exportar diariamente casi dos toneladas de la droga desde sus laboratorios en la Amazonía boliviana a sus socios del cártel de Medellín, dirigido por Pablo Escobar, a Estados Unidos, en una operación conjunta con la...
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Written by Ben Mezrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.95
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking into a highly secure laboratory wasn't easy. Thad Roberts, an intern in a prestigious...
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Spy
The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America
Written by David Wise
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $11.99
Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caught in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.
David Wise, the...
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $29.95
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible...
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Roosevelt's Secret War
FDR and World War II Espionage
Written by Joseph E. Persico
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $17.95
Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations.
Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations:
-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor
-A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly...
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