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True stories
Num Pages: 240 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- NBM Publishing Company United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681120638
- ISBN
- 9781681120638
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.85
€ 30.99
€ 27.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896300733
- ISBN
- 9781896300733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.90
€ 19.00
€ 15.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JF; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750960199
- ISBN
- 9780750960199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.71
€ 19.71
Hardback. Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, with the medals to prove it, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. BIC Classification: BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786062543
- ISBN
- 9781786062543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.77
€ 26.99
€ 18.77
Paperback. 'Packs a surprising, epic, life-affirming punch' THE SUNDAY TIMES Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA; BT; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749928759
- ISBN
- 9780749928759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
hardcover. As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't and Eliot Ness couldn't. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution of the ruthless, murderous bosses who ruled American cities without fear of the law. Num Pages: 372 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597974882
- ISBN
- 9781597974882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
Paperback. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with mocking notes telling where he would strike next. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed 37 dead. He was never caught. This book tells the inside story of the hunt for the hooded killer, and finally reveals his possible true identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; BG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 25. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Media tie-in
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845765316
- ISBN
- 9781845765316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848567368
- ISBN
- 9781848567368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.97
€ 11.99
€ 9.97
Paperback. Series: Criminal Justice and Public Safety. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BTC; JKV; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461372158
- ISBN
- 9781461372158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Paperback. Detectives work the streets - an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence - to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. This work examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032323
- ISBN
- 9780674032323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.06
€ 36.99
€ 31.06
Paperback. A tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. A daring escaper, he broke out of Scotland's grim prison fortress of Peterhead five times - three times in one year! A likeable rogue, he was a gentle man who in peacetime shrank from violence. Num Pages: 212 pages, 8 pp. plate section. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226. The Extraordinary True Story of the Safe Blower Who Became a War Hero. 212 pages, 8 pp. plate section. A tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. A daring escaper, he broke out of Scotland's grim prison fortress of Peterhead five times - three times in one year! A likeable rogue, he was a gentle man who in peacetime shrank from violence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BTC. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight: 234.
- Publisher
- Black & White Publishing
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845023461
- ISBN
- 9781845023461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. Tells the story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge' on the town's wild, storm-battered coast, it became what some call Scotland's gulag. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 pp. colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845025380
- ISBN
- 9781845025380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Hardcover. Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. This book presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. It explores the cultural value of these final statements and asks what we can learn from them. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226202686
- ISBN
- 9780226202686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.27
€ 26.99
€ 22.27
Paperback. Robert Kee's vivid account of his years in a German prisoner-of-war camp - and his flight across Europe when he escaped. A classis survival story. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BTM; BTP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- W&N
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826744
- ISBN
- 9780753826744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, 1. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 109 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780425250471
- ISBN
- 9780425250471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.26
€ 11.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations; maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552124195
- ISBN
- 9780552124195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Film Tie-In
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552172110
- ISBN
- 9780552172110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardback. More than a century's worth of atrocities culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and incisive text written by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. Num Pages: 320 pages, 500 b&w and colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; BTC; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 318 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2180. Fine copy in fine dustwrappers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0014254
- ISBN
- 9780316391238
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.94
€ 11.94
Paperback. An inside look at our first line of defense against terrorists and hostage takers. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; JKSW1; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738202624
- ISBN
- 9780738202624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.88
€ 27.99
€ 19.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSC; BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KTG0005887
- ISBN
- 9781574091335
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823271559
- ISBN
- 9780823271559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.70
€ 84.70
paperback. An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival.. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; BGH; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780553815399
- ISBN
- 9780553815399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.64
€ 16.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. An insider's view of Japan's underworld of organized crime. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780330679
- ISBN
- 9781780330679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. The incredible true story of the rise and reign of Pablo Escobar, the most wanted criminal in history, told by the one man who was with him every step of the way - his brother Roberto. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2x4 page plate sections. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340951101
- ISBN
- 9780340951101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33