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In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence, in many European countries, of "stay-behind" units consisting of 5,000 to 15,000 military operatives.

Coca, farlopa, perico, merca, Fariña. Nunca Galicia comercializó un producto con tanto éxito. Aunque ahora parezca una pesadilla lejana, en los años 90 el 80 por ciento de la cocaína desembarcaba en Europa por las costas gallegas. A través de testimonios directos de capos, pilotos de planeadoras, arrepentidos, jueces, policías, periodistas y madres de toxicómanos, Nacho Carretero retrata con minuciosidad este paisaje criminal. Fariña incluye, además, un repaso inédito por los clanes que siguen operando hoy en día.

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.

La Banda Battestini, così chiamata per il cognome di due fratelli che ne facevano parte, è stata una banda criminale pescarese, attiva dalla fine degli anni 70 all'inizio degli anni 80 e protagonista di una serie di rapine. Ne facevano parte i fratelli Rolando e Pasquale, Italo Ceci (freddato poi nel 2012 a Pescara), Massimo Ballone, Raimondo Coletta e altri.

En la historia de la delincuencia un nombre destaca sobre los demás: el de Pablo Escobar. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, nieto del también traficante Roberto Gaviria Cobaleda, nació y creció en una familia colombiana humilde, pero abandonó pronto los estudios para dedicarse al contrabando, el tráfico de drogas, la extorsión, la corrupción política y el asesinato, entre otros muchos delitos. Fundó el cartel de Medellín, con el que controlaba casi la totalidad de la producción de cocaína del mundo y con el que declaró la guerra al Estado de su país.

Il true crime sulla vicenda di Roberto Calvi. L’amara caduta all’inferno del banchiere del Vaticano. Londra, 1982. Un uomo dilaniato dalla solitudine scrive a un caro amico, raccontandogli della vicenda che l’ha portato a fuggire dall’Italia. Una lettera struggente, colma di rimorso, da cui emerge la storia di una vita alla ricerca di un potere redentivo e totalizzante.

El libro que visibiliza la invasión silenciosa y violenta del narcotráfico mexicano en la Argentina. La corresponsal Cecilia González, única periodista que cubrió de manera permanente el juicio por "la ruta de la efedrina", revela en esta profunda investigación las operaciones de los...

Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), the most decorated officer in U.S. military history, including two Medals of Honor, wrote a searing critique in War is a Racket. Drawing from his service in conflicts from the Spanish-American War to World War I, he exposed how wars enriched corporations, bankers, and industrialists while soldiers and civilians bore the devastating costs. With unflinching candor, Butler revealed the profiteering motives behind global conflicts, delivering a timeless call for peace.

El asesinato como forma de ganarse la vida es la pregunta fundamental de esta crónica. La investigación aborda la figura del sicario —con sus días siempre al borde del abismo— como ineluctable resultado de la descomposición social y de la incapacidad del Estado para evitar que sigan proliferando.

Gianni Russo was a handsome twenty-five-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set up her brother Sonny, played by James Caan, for a hit. Russo didn't have...

Un viaggio reale nel Messico della guerra sucia dello stato corrotto e in quella infinita dei cartelli del narcotraffico. Francesco Forgione negli anni ha incontrato ministri, magistrati, poliziotti. Ha conosciuto i familiari dei desaparecidos. Ha ascoltato la voce dei preti di strada e della gente delle comunità indigene che resistono, degli attivisti per i diritti umani e dei giornalisti che mettono a rischio la propria vita. Ha raccolto le storie delle vittime innocenti di questa guerra sporca, di coloro che si sono trovati nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato.

From New York Times best-selling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In 2011, Ulbricht, a 26-year-old libertarian idealist and former Boy Scout, launched 'a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them'. He called it Silk Road, opened for business on the Dark Web, and christened himself the Dread Pirate Roberts.

SOON TO BE A TV MINISERIES ON PARAMOUNT+ WINNER OF THE DANGER PRIZE 2018 John Ibrahim's incredible life story told in his own words. Last King of the Cross lays bare Australia's most notorious underworld figure. In the mongrel tongue of the streets, John writes of fleeing war-torn Tripoli with...

One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other...

Carlos Lehder es mundialmente famoso por haber sido uno de los fundadores y principales capos del cartel de Medellín, tal vez el más singular del grupo, y el primero de ellos en ser extraditado a los Estados Unidos, en 1987, luego de ser traicionado por Pablo Escobar Gaviria, su socio y cabecilla indiscutible del cartel. Lehder fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua y 135 años adicionales, que logró reducir por su colaboración en el juicio de Estados Unidos contra el dictador panameño Manuel Antonio Noriega.

Brought to you by Penguin. Four gripping stories from the Old Bailey that force us to consider: What is justice? Do our legal courts dispense it? Has our judicial process improved, for the victims, the accused and for society? And what more must be done to ensure genuine justice is carried out...

'Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but in the world's deadliest commodity. Heroin.' As part of Scotland Yard's undercover team, it was Peter Bleksley's job to infiltrate some of the capital's most dangerous gangs and bring them...

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. “A tour de force of shoe-leather...

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel - the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly-born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine.