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Released: May 3, 2011
"Certain to engender controversy in the law-enforcement realm, as James has previously done in the world of baseball, where his seemingly revolutionary notions are now accepted by some members of the establishment."
An offbeat, sweeping examination of true crime in America (and occasionally other nations).
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NONFICTION
Released: April 20, 2011
"A well-told tale of true crime that provides a few good arguments for why it should not be a crime at all."
High times on the high seas: Investigative reporter Ryan recounts the glory days of dope smuggling and their terrible denouement.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 13, 2011
"Burton should receive an A for effort. If in truth he has identified the killer--he concedes he has not identified a second man who drove the getaway car--he should receive an A+ as a detective."
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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