War Dogs

War Dogs
Author: Guy Lawson
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781451667608

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"Previously published as: Arms and the dudes."

The Brotherhoods

The Brotherhoods
Author: Guy Lawson,William Oldham
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781416523383

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The last great mob story, this definitive inside account is an historic, unprecedented portrait of two brotherhoods - the NYPD and the Mafia - and the two cops who allegedly belonged to both.

Merchant of Death

Merchant of Death
Author: Douglas Farah,Stephen Braun
Publsiher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781118038987

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Praise for Merchant of Death "A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious arms dealer--a page-turner that digs deep into the amazing, murky story of Viktor Bout. Farah and Braun have exposed the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive businesses--the international arms trade." —Peter L. Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know "Viktor Bout is like Osama bin Laden: a major target of U.S. intelligence officials who time and again gets away. Farah and Braun have skillfully documented how this notorious arms dealer has stoked violence around the world and thwarted international sanctions. Even more appalling, they show how Bout ended up getting millions of dollars in U.S. government money to assist the war in Iraq. A truly impressive piece of investigative reporting." —Michael Isikoff, coauthor of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War "Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun are two of the toughest investigative reporters in the country. This is an important book about a hidden world of gunrunning and profiteering in some of the world's poorest countries." —Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 "In Merchant of Death, two of America's finest reporters have performed a major public service, turning over the right rocks that reveal the brutal international arms business at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Viktor Bout, they have given us a new Lord of War, a man who knows no side but his own, and who has a knack for turning up in every war zone just in time to turn a profit. As Farah and Braun uncover and document his troubling role in the Bush Administration's Global War on Terror, his ties to Washington almost seem inevitable." —James Risen, author of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration "An extraordinary and timely piece of investigative reporting, Merchant of Death is also a vividly compelling read. The true story of Viktor Bout, a sociopathic Russian gunrunner who has supplied weapons for use in some of the most gruesome conflicts of modern times--and who can count amongst his clients both the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the U.S. military in Iraq--is a stomach-churning indictment of the policy failures and moral contradictions of the world's most powerful governments, including that of the United States." —Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Fall of Baghdad Two respected journalists tell the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout’s vast enterprise of guns, planes, and money has fueled internecine slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American military in Iraq. This book combines spy thrills with crucial insights on the shortcomings of a U.S. foreign policy that fails to confront the lucrative and lethal arms trade that erodes global security.

The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime
Author: Letizia Paoli
Publsiher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780199730445

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This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.

Octopus

Octopus
Author: Guy Lawson
Publsiher: Scribe Publications
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781921844959

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Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge-fund fraud and the wild search for a secret financial narket. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all – until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980's, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program he'd created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. But his future was already beginning to unravel. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a 'secret market' run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in 'the Upperworld' a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the 'secret market' was real or a con, Israel was all in – and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus' tentacles. 'Octopus is a reminder that the truth sometimes is stranger than fiction . . . A Wall Street thriller for our time.' Alex Berenson, bestselling author of The Faithful Spy and The Shadow Patrol 'A rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a book that is utterly impossible to put down.' Scott Anderson, author of Triage

Slow Getting Up

Slow Getting Up
Author: Nate Jackson
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780062383211

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One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here—from scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies to glorious touchdown catches—even knowledgeable football fans will glean a new, starkly humanized understanding of the NFL's workweek. Fast-paced, lyrical, dirty, and hilariously unvarnished, Slow Getting Up is an unforgettable look at the real lives of America's best athletes putting their bodies and minds through hell.

Buff Dudes Cutting Book

Buff Dudes Cutting Book
Author: Hudson White,Brandon White
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0692985727

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A 112 page food and fitness guide to getting lean with an included 12 week workout plan and eating routine.

Devi s Distraction

Devi s Distraction
Author: Ruby Dixon
Publsiher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1096440369

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It's hard to make friends with the other women at the Icehome camp when you'd rather be dissecting the local fauna. Which is why I'm surprised when one of the big, brawny islanders asks me to help him make a prosthetic leg. I don't know N'dek, but since I'm a scientist, he wants my help. And while I'm more into dinosaurs than anatomy, I love a challenge. As we work together, I come to see that N'dek's not just clever and determined, he's also protective and sweet. And he kisses like a fiend.He's a distraction I don't need...but he might be everything I've ever wanted. Too bad he says he's going to resonate to someone else.