NONFICTION
Released: April 12, 2011
"A disturbing, haunting journey into unrepentant hatred."
NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"A comprehensive, still-shocking exhumation of racial discord in America."
NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"A vivid law-enforcement procedural with a larger-than-life central character."
The saga of New Jersey political and money-laundering scandals, tied together by an unlikely FBI informant.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A useful and readable addition to Mob Lit."
The inside story of a notable organized-crime prosecution, in which a son turned on his ferocious father.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"An entertaining narrative, roguishly told, and also a pungent explanation of prohibition's inevitable failure."
Provocative, troubling treatise on how large-scale cocaine smuggling has tainted all aspects of the global economy.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"A riveting, sad coda to an American tragedy."
A bestselling author and a veteran Miami police sergeant tell the whole story behind the 1981 kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 22, 2011
"A compelling ride."
Max "Vision" Butler--currently in a federal penitentiary--once sat atop a billion-dollar criminal empire trafficking in stolen credit-card numbers. How he got there and how the authorities finally managed to topple him is a harrowing tale shot through with technology and tragedy.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 18, 2011
"In-your-face violence and resilient heroism that leaps off the page."
NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 7, 2010
"Less immediate than Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah (2007) and less engaging than George De Stefano's An Offer We Can't Refuse (2006), though still of interest to fans of true-crime stories--and there are many in these pages."
Close-up study of the Sicilian Mafia, which is both different from its American counterpart and very much the same.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 7, 2010
"Merely serviceable, offering few surprises--much less vigorously written than Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett's Alphaville (2010), which covers some of the same ground."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2010
"Codella secures justice of a sort in this taut true-crime tale, which varies from by-the-numbers to genuinely exciting."
Tough-talking memoir of a street cop turned detective who battled the druglords of New York City's Lower East Side.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 7, 2010
"An uneven but well-documented mix of forensic science, narrative nonfiction and criminal psychology."
Important developments in 19th-century forensics and criminal justice are interwoven with the killing spree of French serial killer Joseph Vasher.
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