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One night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million-literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. There's just one hitch: Ghantt has entrusted the money to an oddball crew of accomplices who had wooed him into committing this massive theft in the first place-and...
2) American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
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* Finalist for the Edgar® Award in Best Fact Crime
* New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015"
* Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015"
* Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime
* Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former...
* New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015"
* Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015"
* Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime
* Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former...
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This is the true story of crime and "road rage" in the executive suite of one of America's leading trucking companies. The story begins when the highly regarded founder and owner of the Arrow Trucking Company is killed in a hunting accident. His widow then appoints their only son, Douglas, to be the new CEO. His only qualification is that he is known to be "the apple of his mother's eye." He had no experience in anything. He had only a high school...
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Everyone wants a best friend. Someone to be there in good times and bad, with whom you'll share secrets, wishes and dreams. No one ever expects that best friend to be a world class con artist who preys on your deepest desires to further her own dark agenda. In "My Best Friend is a Liar," we meet sociopath Sharon Johnson. Scams and swindles are her daily games and she's excellent at winning. With decades of destruction and victims from all walks of...
6) Corruptacy
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A forensic accountant discovers during a bankruptcy fraud investigation, a plot by two high-ranking government officials with ties to a terrorist organization. Their ultimate goal is the destruction of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and the assassination of the Vice President of the United States.
More than a mystery, this is a lesson in how bankruptcy does, and doesn't work in the United States. It addresses concerns like, What happens to...
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President Obama's 'SECRET CRIMES': Today, it is important for the Public to be aware of how dangerous and 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL' it is for the US Federal Government to have the "ABSOLUTE POWER" to secretly disobey and to not enforce the 14th Amendment (to provide all its citizens "equal protection of the laws" against Crime and Racism) as President Obama continues to secretly maintain and enjoy His UNCIVILIZED 'RACIST GRIP OF CRIME AND TERROR AGAINST...
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Not many Americans go from working for Presidents to monitoring White Supremacists and violent, neo-Nazi skinheads, but that's what happened to author Todd Blodgett. After serving on Ronald Reagan's White House staff, and President George H.W. Bush's successful presidential campaign, Blodgett took a wrong turn and found himself ensconced in the milieu of organized White Supremacy. Eventually, he - along with America's two leading Nazis, William L....
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White-collar crime is financial crime committed by the elite in society. Offenders abuse their positions for financial gain. While being like any other investigation concerned with the past, investigating white-collar crime has its specific aspects and challenges. For example, while street criminals typically hide themselves, white-collar criminals hide their crime. Burglars leave traces of the crime and disappear from the scene. White-collar criminals...
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A tragic suicide, a likely murder, wrongful imprisonment, and gripping courtroom scenes draw readers into this compelling story giving them a frightening perspective on justice corrupted and who should be accountable when evidence is withheld. Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice is the true story of the strong-arm, illegal, and unethical tactics used by headline-grabbing federal prosecutors in their narcissistic pursuit...
11) La Costa Nostra
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«La Costa Nostra» es una victoria ciudadana. El periodismo y la edición independiente se unen para contar la historia del clan empresarial y político más poderoso de Colombia.
Este libro es el resultado de la obsesión periodística de Laura Ardila, de su deseo de escudriñar un poder con alcances inimaginables y de su propósito por comprender el éxito y la habilidad en los negocios, las prácticas clientelistas y los vínculos afectivos del...
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Get the Summary of Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Mandy Matney's book "Blood on Their Hands" chronicles her investigative journalism career, focusing on her work at The Island Packet in South Carolina. Matney's approach to journalism avoids invasive tactics, preferring social media and text messages to gather information. She faced challenges in smaller newsrooms with scarce...
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These mystifying and spine-tingling stories are just what the doctor ordered and they are all true.
Doctors of Death presents ten hair-raising real life accounts of killing and mayhem in medical training ultimately causing others to die. With a sharp eye for the sort of detail that only true cases can have, they are woven together with some of the most horrifying killings that ever occurred.
Many of these extraordinary stories of doctors whose prescriptions...
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President Obama's 'COVERT-LAWLESSNESS': Today, it is important for the Public to be aware of how dangerous and 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL' it is for the US Federal Government to have the "ABSOLUTE POWER" to secretly disobey and to not enforce the 14th Amendment (to provide all its citizens "equal protection of the laws" against Crime and Racism) as President Obama continues to secretly maintain and enjoy His UNCIVILIZED 'RACIST GRIP OF CRIME AND TERROR AGAINST...
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Now as Matt, Connie and Hahn get closer to solving the murders, Matt finds himself in the middle of a prostitution ring, drug distribution network and murder — all within one or more family members of the country club.
Can he help solve the crimes of greed and murder or get too close and find himself an unfortunate victim?
When a he finds himself at the crosshair of a.357 magnum pointed at him he wonders if this is it?
Country Club Greed is all...
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JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece gracing the table. Death rang their doorbell and filled the air with the rat-a-tat-tat of an assault weapon discharging round after round into their bodies....
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'You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.'
It's easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you'd be wrong.
Born out of the ANC Women's League 20 years ago, Bosasa has come to be described as the ANC's 'Heart of Darkness'. At its helm today is Gavin Watson, a struggle-rugby-player-turned-tenderpreneur who made it his business to splash out on gifts and cash to get up close and personal with...
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Ergebnislose Meetings, falsche Entscheidungen, überbordende Bürokratie, Karrieregeilheit der einen, Unfähigkeit der anderen – und alle halten die Klappe, weil der Unsinn von oben kommt. Die Folgen sind endlose Mehrarbeit und unnötige Konflikte, die anschließend unter großem Aufwand entschärft werden müssen. Kurz: Das Management agiert nicht nach den Leadership-Prinzipien, die es selbst propagiert. Unter zu hohem Druck wird getäuscht, getrickst...
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Vom Kreml bis Peking, von Harare bis Riad und von Paris bis zum Weißen Haus - in Kleptopia folgt der preisgekrönte Enthüllungsjournalist Tom Burgis dem schmutzigen Geld, das die Weltwirtschaft überflutet, Diktatoren ermutigt und Demokratien schwächt. Burgis folgt in seinem Buch vier Spuren, die ein globales Netz der Korruption aufdecken: den Unruhestifter aus England, der über die Geheimnisse einer Schweizer Bank stolpert, den ehemaligen sowjetischen...