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Tell no-one anything. Don't ask questions. Be invisible.This was the mantra of mafia associate John Kruger.Born into a family of criminals, John Kruger began his life of crime while still in primary school. Bagman of the Brothel follows his tumultuous upbringing in southern Sydney and into adulthood, where he found himself employed by a mafia organisation during the 1980s.Set against a background of police corruption, seedy characters, and violence,...
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Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the...
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These short stories are actual true events, in which I was personally involved. They occurred between 1982 and 1995 while I was serving as a Police Officer, Detective in the Bomb and Arson Unit, Homicide Unit, the Burglary and Auto theft Units with KCPD. These incidents are taken from my memory of the events as they took place. They are not in any way, meant to hurt or cause discredit to anyone or any place described or resembled in these stories....
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In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to...
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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts,...
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Down the street or shopping, you always see the ones who are trying to be the macho man. They walk toward you, so you have to sidestep and make way for them. I always wonder how tough he would be if someone did not move and pounded the piss out of them. I put my theory to work in the mall parking lot. I am 5'5" and macho man a 6 foot plus shoved into me when I did not move. I beat the crap out of him and left him crying like a baby. All you people...
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Back In The Hey Days Of The Source Magazine Mike McNeill Was A Recording Artist That Was Signed To Ray Benzino's Surrender Records. Mike Had One Foot In The Music Industry As A Part Of A Rap Group Calle The Wiseguys Doing Music With Elite Artist Such As Wyclef, Scarface, 32, An Spice 1 An A List Of Top Producers All While Having His Other Foot Deep Into The Drug Selling An Gang ViolenceOf The 90'S An Early 2000'S. As Wiseguys Reigned As The Biggest...
10) Carried
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Carried is a true crime story of a divorced mother's fight to save herself and her three children from a knife-wielding fifteen-year-old intruder in her home, and her battle in the courtroom to keep their attacker from terrorizing her family again. Carried is true and fully and completely describes a mother's worst nightmare and the many blessings that followed the horrible attack on April 18, 1996.
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Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster, but he, never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50-years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family. Balls is, written by Scott Dietche and Ken Sanz.
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Ming presents his life through the eyes of Mike Lee, just coming home from prison and trying to make a life for himself. The obstacles Mike faces and his handling of them dictates the course of his life as he tries to better himself and find a place in this world. While trying to get his life together, a series of events leads Mike down a familiar path. This Book is not to Glorify one's past but, to share a person’s mistakes. As Mike deals with...
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Joseph Di Prisco's latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the 50's and 60's. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts of New York State Appellate Division trials, where his dad was the star witness against corrupt NYPD cops--cops with whom he collaborated. Suddenly, Pope's...
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17 is a biographical account of two years in the life, ages 16 and 17, of an Oklahoma boy starting out as a completely innocent youth and transforming into one of the wildest street running, vagabond traveling, drug using, crime committing, womanizing, crazy people imaginable. People who grew up in the 60s and 70s will recognize a lot of the activities and parts of life described, but few will have experienced them to the extent that the subject of...
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Kim L. Smalls was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smalls as a baby boomer. She was educated by the public school system when prayer was a part of their protocol. She was baptized at the tender age of seven.
Kim later received her Bachelor of Science degree at New York Institute of Technology in 1979 and majored in Sociology. She was a Case Manager by profession, lived the life of parties, drugs, tobacco and alcohol which included the riotous...
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In alternating voices, Judith Wright Favor and Rosie Alfaro take the reader on a frank, frustrating, and unforgettable journey. Friending Rosie: Respect on Death Row bridges the chasm between souls consigned to life behind bars, and souls enjoying the privileges of freedom.
Rosie's letters from Central California Women's Facility, interwoven with Judith's reflections and questions, highlight perspectives from authors of different races, religions,...
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Hay muchas personas que han manifestado su incredulidad con respecto al hecho de que todo este libro sea en sí, la narración de un terrorista, y tienen dudas sobre la veracidad de la historia. Me gustaría responderles a todos ellos con ese adagio tan conocido de que: "A veces, la realidad supera a la ficción " Lo que tenemos que entender aquí es que, la mayoría de los terroristas en el mundo son jóvenes engañados; sus mentes han sido manipuladas,...
19) Caught by a Pimp
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Caught by a Pimp is the true story about a pimp who turns a young girl out. She's trying to take care of her daughter and sick mother. He's on crack, and the young girl knows nothing about drugs. The young girl gets married at the age of sixteen because she has a baby. Her husband goes to prison for armed robbery and leaves her to take care of their baby by herself.
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It's Mayberry RFD meets Breaking Bad when a small town Opie-like boy become a big time drug dealer. This is the semi-true story (selected changes to protect the innocent and the guilty) of Rick Carle, raised with strong upstanding Midwestern values, until he takes a bad turn and travels down a crooked road. Join him on the wacky, sometimes heartfelt, often humerous ride that includes his encounters with State Patrolmen, Hell's Angels, and other unsavory...
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