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clerks, moralising prigs to horse dopers and members of parliament to jockeys. The tide of the narrative sweeps from grand stately homes to low gambling dens, from the taverns of the day to one of the most ancient courts in the land via the many racecourses and trainers’ yards. Even the brother of Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister, was a key player in the drama. 298 paperback pages with plates in colour, sepia/w and b/w. £8.99 NOW £4
74287 DARK MARKET: Cyberthieves,
Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny Dark Market is essential reading for anybody who uses the Internet - and that means pretty well all of us. The three fundamental 21st century threats are, according to Glenny, cybercrime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage, and governments and the private sector are spending billions of what is effectively your money in a losing battle against today’s invisible, super-smart, practically uncatchable and unconvictable new breed of criminal - the hacker. Glenny illustrates the impossible task which the world’s law enforcement agencies have been set in his investigation of the rise and fall (though for how long?) of the criminal website DarkMarket. Here are the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories that will shock and amaze you, even more so considering that DarkMarket (from c.2002-2009) was relatively unsophisticated compared to today’s bad guys. The top hackers like JiLsi, Matrix and Lord Cyric, the detectives and Internet security experts and the victims. The first thing you will do is change all your passwords! 296pp paperback.
£13.99 NOW £5
72504 ASYLUM: The Renegades Who Hijacked the
World’s Oil Market by Leah McGrath Goodman From treacherous boardroom schemes to strippers, from repeated terrorist attacks to FBI stings and from grand alliances to the obscene fortunes that brought the global economy to the brink of collapse. For the first time, this outspoken book unmasks the oil market’s self-
described ‘inmates’ in all their dysfunctional glory. Here are the happily married father from Long Island, whose lust for money and power was exceeded only by his taste for cruel pranks. 398 pages, photos. £17.99 NOW £3
72506 DIAL M FOR MURDOCH: News
Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman Murdoch’s newspapers had for years been hacking phones and casually destroying people’s lives. This exposé gives the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary lengths to which the News Corporation went to ‘put the problem in a box’, how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed. 360 pages, colour and b/w photos. £20 NOW £5.50
74134 MURDER AT WROTHAM HILL by Diana Souhami
A subversive murder story and a stunning evocation of 40s Britain. Two strikingly different people eke out lives on the margins of a society shattered by six long years of war. Dagmar Petrzywalski is a gentle, eccentric spinster who saves every penny and lives by herself in a hut. Harold Hagger is a small-time crook, a man of shabby impulses and bad lies. The author takes their chance meeting on a lonely autumn morning as the starting point for a haunting and tragic account of a tawdry murder that shines a light on post-war austerity England. 325pp in paperback with map of the East Malling Cider Works and actual photos. £8.99 NOW £4.50
74120 COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ: The
Autobiography by Rudolf Hoess
In his introduction, Primo Levi said, the book is ‘filled with evil, this evil is narrated with a disturbing bureaucratic obtuseness; it has no literary quality, and reading it is agony... Yet this autobiography of the Commandant of Auschwitz is one of the most instructive books ever published because it very
accurately describes the course of a human life that was exemplary in its way.’ An extraordinary and unique document, Rudolf Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. Before this he had worked in other concentration camps, and afterwards he was at the Inspectorate in Berlin. Thus he knew more, both at first- hand and as an administrator, about Nazi Germany’s greatest crime than almost anyone. Captured by the British, he was handed over to the Poles, tried, sentenced to death, and taken back to Auschwitz and there hanged. It was while prisoner he was ordered to write this autobiography in the weeks between his trail and execution, and this translation includes the entire autobiography plus his last letters to his wife and children. ‘The Budy blood-bath is still before my eyes. I find it incredible that human beings could ever turn into such beasts. The way the ‘greens’ knocked the French Jewesses about, tearing them to pieces, killing them with axes, and throttling them - it was simply gruesome.’ 252pp in paperback with photos. £9.99 NOW £5
72666 SECRET HISTORY OF MI6 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
This is a warts-and-all view of MI6. Here are the challenges it faced trying to counter the spread of Communism and the growing threats from Germany, Italy and Japan - all this with inadequate resources. The war also brought the agency many of its greatest triumphs, among them the pioneering of cryptography
on an industrial scale - such as the breaking of the Enigma codes - and the devising of some of the methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming’s novels. By scouting sites for the D-Day invasion and contributing to stunning deception operations before the Allies landed, MI6 also uncovered crucial info on Germany’s V rockets. 810 pages, archive photos. $39.95 NOW £6
74065 TITANIC THOMPSON by Kevin Cook
The colourful biography of the card- sharking, gun-slinging, fast-living American legend. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver and a suitcase full of cash, the legendary Titanic was married five times to five different women, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he would say ‘They’d all agree that they had
it coming to them’. He lost and won millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something. Filled with famous faces like Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow. 246pp, illus paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50 73287 MAN WHO WOULD BE JACK: The Hunt
for the Real Ripper by David Bullock
The Whitechapel murders and their perpetrator, Jack the Ripper, have been as source of public fascination for ever since those blood-soaked pea-souper nights over a century ago. According to David Bullock’s research, the police had their man back in 1891. Inspector William Race was tasked with the apprehension of Thomas Cutbush, who has carried out savage knife attacks on two girls in east London and escaped from the Lunatic Ward of Lambeth Infirmary where he is awaiting trial. On 9 March Race gets his man, but during his hunt he has been struck by the wealth of similarities and connections with the 1888 Whitechapel murders and starts to wonder whether his has in fact just apprehended Jack himself. Gory details, police reports, coroner’s reports, court records. 310pp. £16.99 NOW £6
72432 BLACK SHIP by Dudley Pope
HMS Hermione was the Black Ship which in 1797 saw the worst mutiny in British naval history. The ship’s commander Captain Pigot had been in trouble the year before at anchor in Haiti, when he ordered an American skipper to be swished with a rope’s end after his ship the Mercury had rammed Pigot’s Surprise. Casey apologised but
refused to go down on his knees. Other officers petitioned Pigot not to carry out a flogging, but 150 crewmen of all nationalities were summoned to witness the punishment. The humiliation of Casey triggered a violent rampage in which not only Captain Pigot was savagely slaughtered but also others who were completely innocent. 367pp, paperback, b/w reproductions. £15.99 NOW £6
74038 CHICHESTER MURDERS AND
MISDEMEANOURS by Philip Macdougall In the 1860s, rural West Sussex Constabulary would frequently seek the help of the Metropolitan Police when it came to ensuring that the annual Goodwood races were relatively crime free, despite hoards of ‘fingersmiths’. The book looks at a number of notorious crimes that have over time beset the Chichester area, ranging from the murderous drunken assault upon a soldier recruited into the army of George III to the discovery in the 1950s of an unknown and decapitated body in the waters of Chichester Harbour. Each a cause célèbre in its day, the book is a superb investigation of early policing methods, plus laxity, inefficiency and crude blundering. Dozens upon dozens of sad, scary stories, executions, kidnappings and police hunts. 124 page paperbacks with mug shots. £12.99 NOW £4.50
73775 ESSENTIALS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
CRASHES AND COLLAPSES by Thomas Bohan
Accident reconstruction, the causes of vehicle crashes and structural collapses, the Critical-Speed-Scuff-Mark technique, the interpretation of test data, Newton’s laws of motion, law and technology in the forensic field, physical evidence and the role of weather in accidents are all brought into play in this extraordinary book. It looks at forensic cases and investigative methods from forensic engineering, as well as other engineering fields. 80 photos and line illus. Web resources. 312pp, paperback.
£11.50 NOW £4.50
72140 SECRET HISTORY OF MI6 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
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Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service - also commonly known as MI6 - during the war years formed significant and highly influential ties with the US. Here are the challenges it faced trying to counter the spread of Communism and the growing threats from Germany, Italy and Japan - all this with inadequate resources. Read for the first time some of the human consequences, including embezzlement, treachery and suicide, as well as high-profile blunders. The war also brought the agency many of its greatest triumphs, among them the pioneering of cryptography on an industrial scale and the devising of some of the methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming’s novels. 810 pages, archive photos.
$39.95 NOW £6
73622 INTO THE HEART OF THE MAFIA: A Journey Through the Italian South by David Lane
A sensitive portrait of heroic, often isolated, individuals who have fought against 150 years of criminality. Tragically, the hold of the Mafia on southern Italy - from
Naples, through Calabria, to Sicily, the cradle of Cosa Nostra - is as strong as ever. His book describes in painful detail the unceasing Mafia pressure endured by priests and politicians, trade unionists, businessmen and ordinary citizens, and the risks taken by police, magistrates and members of civil society whose commitment to their cause has weakened - but has not destroyed - the Mafia’s influence. 261 pages with map. $24.99 NOW £6
73612 DICTIONARY OF ESPIONAGE:
Spyspeak into English by Joseph C. Goulden
More than just an alphabetical series of definitions, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the lingo and the operations of the CIA, the FBI, M15, MI6, Mossad, the KGB and many other top-secret organisations. Loaded with anecdotal incidents that provide entertainment as well as information, it offers page-turning excitement from the clandestine world of spies and spying. Enjoy a lively tour through the plain talk, double talk and euphemisms of Spyspeak as really rendered by its practitioners. 256 paperback pages, $14.95 NOW £5.50
72795 WORLD THAT NEVER
WAS by Alex Butterworth Interweaves biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the last years of the 19th century. This was an era that saw the birth of a new phenomenon - international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening the social order. Key
players include Emma Goldman - leading figure of the anarchist movement, and William Morris - author, poet, artist and prominent socialist. 502 paperback pages with dramatis personae, timeline, b/w illus. £9.99 NOW £2.50
73467 SLEEPERS: A True Story by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything - the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York’s violent West Side, until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school. 12 months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed forever. 11 years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand. 373pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £3
73280 FRENZY by Neil Root
Subtitled ‘Heath, Haigh and Christie, the First Great Tabloid Murderers’. The cases of three serial killers, all apprehended and executed just after the end of WWII, which changed the nature of crime reporting in Britain forever. The loathsome trio were Neville Heath, a “charming” sadist who killed two women, John Haigh, who killed between six and nine people and disposed of their bodies in an acid bath, and the necrophile John Christie, who killed between six and eight women, including his wife Ethel and one Beryl Evans and her 14 month old daughter Geraldine, a despicable crime for which Beryl’s husband Timothy was hanged in 1950 in one of the worse miscarriages of justice ever seen in this country. Court transcripts and newspaper reports. 314pp paperback. £12.99 NOW £4.50
73651 INVENTION OF MURDER: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by Judith Flanders Over the course of the 19th century, murder became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, theatre, melodrama, opera and even puppet shows and performing dog acts.
Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, with Dickens’ Inspector Bucket, influencing Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes - as well as modern writers. The author explores some of the most gripping and gruesome cases, both famous and obscure. Here are Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around London by omnibus, Burke and Hare, Eleanor Pearcey, who murdered her lover’s wife and child and many more. 556 pages, colour and b/w.
£20 NOW £5
73279 FACTS ARE SUBVERSIVE: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash
Consider the statement made by the head of Britain’s secret intelligence service, known only by his traditional moniker ‘C’. It is a horrifying thought that, if the ‘facts’ about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction had been known instead of ‘fixed’, the British Parliament might not have voted to go to war in Iraq. A digital photo can be falsified at the tap of a keyboard. 441 paperback pages, map. £9.99 NOW £2.50
71852 DEATH ON THE WATERWAYS by Allan Scott-Davies
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Here is a chilling glimpse into the murky depths of the criminal underworld whose murderous inhabitants used the country’s rivers, pools, lakes, bridges and tunnels to conceal the evidence of their nefarious activities. Did you know, for instance, that the infamous Burke and Hare both worked on the Union Canal or that the notorious Victorian baby farmers used waterways to dispose of the unfortunate infants in their care? 159 paperback pages, illus. £12.99 NOW £3
72116 HILLIKER CURSE by James Ellroy Born in Los Angeles in 1948, Ellroy is the author of The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz known as the LA Quartet. The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker has divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son James was 10 years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and “summoned her dead”. She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all a cri de coeur. A stark rendition of murder. 203pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £1.75
71568 THE NUREMBERG TRIALS by Paul Roland
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began on 20th November 1945 and ended on 13th April 1949. At the first trial, 24 leading Nazis were indicted, but only 21 defendants made an appearance. On 9th December 1946, 12 subsequent trials of ‘lesser war criminals’ were held by the Americans. A summary of these hearings will be found in the final chapter. The book aims to reveal certain aspects of the trials and the personalities involved that are not generally known. One of the main reasons for writing the account was to give voice to the survivors of Nazi atrocities, women such as Clara Greenbaum who survived Belsen who with her two children. Goering, Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess and other prominent Nazis were brought before the Allied court. 384pp in paperback, photos. £6.99 NOW £3.50
71499 OPERATION KRONSTADT: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain’s Greatest Spy, The Man with a
Hundred Faces by Harry Ferguson In May 1919, only months after the end of World War I, the Bolsheviks’ Red Army had begun to get the upper hand against the US and British-backed White Army. Paul Dukes, a 30-year old concert pianist, master of disguise, dubbed The Man With A Hundred Faces, was the only English spy in Russia and he was cut off in Petrograd after infiltrating the Bolshevik Government and stealing top-secret information. A naval lieutenant called Gus Agar, with his hand-picked team of seven men, boarded plywood boats to try to reach the island fortress of Kronstadt, the most well-defended naval target in Russia, right in the jaws of the Soviet fleet. Would it succeed? 363 pages, archive photos, maps. $26.95 NOW £5
72311 VILLAINS’ PARADISE: A History of
Britain’s Underworld by Donald Thomas Explores the shadowy ganglands where armed robbery, prostitution, drugs and protection flourished. It charts the paths of crooks and thugs like Johnny the Gent, the Ferret, the Hat and Big Albert, who stole, collected, peddled, pimped and killed, and the cops that they ‘bent’. Between 1944 and 1945, the incidence of armed robbery and violent crime increased by 40 per cent. By 1970, the UK crime rate had tripled. Why? 506 paperback pages, illus. $16.95 NOW £3.50
72597 BRIDGE OF SPIES: A True Story of the Cold War by Giles Whittell
Here is the true story of three extraordinary characters: Rudolf Abel - a British-born KGB agent jailed by the FBI, Gary Powers - the American U-2 pilot shot down whilst flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia, and Frederic Pryor - a young American graduate student mistakenly arrested as a spy by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Here is the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Khrushchev to deploy missiles to Cuba. The three men were exchanged. 274 pages, photos. $24.99 NOW £4
72534 MOSSAD
by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is known the world over for the courage, daring and often self-sacrifice of its agents. It also has critics, but the authors of this gripping book take the view that without Mossad, the aftermath of the Arab Spring would be even worse than it is. A key name in Mossad history is former commando Meir Dagan, author of a daring anti-terrorist infiltration into Gaza in 1971 and subsequently creator of “Rimon”, the first undercover Israeli commando unit. By 2011 about half of Iran’s centrifuges were immobilised and George Bush himself wrote Meir a personal letter. The book covers famous incidents such as the hunting and capture of Adolf Eichmann, led by Isser Harel. 388pp.
£20 NOW £7 72327 WHODUNITS: More Than 100
Mysteries for You to Solve by Tom Bullimore et al
This book offers 100 whodunits with the added perk that it invites you, the reader, to work shoulder to shoulder with some expert detectives. A crime has been committed, you have to untangle the evidence and name the guilty party. But, naturally, it is not that simple. Is the crime a frame-up? How did the perpetrator gain access to commit their crime, when it appears impossible? Just how innocent is that innocent bystander? Examine the clues one at a time. Then see the solution at the back. 275pp softback, drawings. £5.99 NOW £3
72377 BRIDGE OF SPIES: A True Story of the Cold War by Giles Whittell
In February 1962, the news bureaux in Berlin had all got wind of a previously unheard of event - a spy exchange between the Soviets and the Americans. The three men - Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy and master of disguise; Gary Powers, a US pilot captured when his U2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviets, and Frederic Pryor, a young idealistic doctor mistakenly identified as a spy and captured by the Soviets - in this three-way political swap had been drawn into the Cold War by duty and curiosity. The pilot and the spy were the original WMD seekers; the third was an intellectual, in way over his head. 274pp, b/w photos. £18.99 NOW £3
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