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This title presents the truth at last about one of the world's great unsolved crimes. The death of Roberto 'God's Banker' Calvi, found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 days before his bank's collapse, remains one of the most extraordinary crimes of all time. Straight from the dark heart of Italy, it involved dark Masonic rituals, political involvement at the highest level, bizarre forensics, intense mafia involvement, the Vatican, a man on the run, and phenomenal sums of money swirling ar...

BAD, LIKE JESSE JAMES is a novel based on the incredibly true story of an unbelievably corrupt ATF agent who engaged in extortion, drug trafficking, fraud and armed robbery (among many other crimes) in 1970's Detroit, and yet was thought to be an exemplary agent. BAD, LIKE JESSE JAMES tells the mind-bogglingly true tale of a man who was so brazen that he once plotted to rob a Brinks truck, and then threatened to blow up Detroit Metro Airport unless he was paid one million dollars. It tells the a...

Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel and their accomplices. When the police finally closed th...

"Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em" introduces the general public to the world of professional poker. The guide clearly explains the complex and exciting methods behind well-timed bluffs, calls, and lay-downs. From the basics to more complex game theory, Hellmuth delivers all the know-how to win the game. In this comprehensive guide, Phil Hellmuth, an extraordinarily successful professional player, offers remarkable insight into the ultimate of poker games, Texas Hold'em. Providing strategy for all...

Corporate Liability for Insider Trading examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested civil proceedings, against corporations for insider trading, and analyses the various rationales for prohibiting insider trading. It reviews the insider trading regulatory regime and describes its key features, using both national and international examples. The book inspects a variety of criminal and civil models of corporate liability and considers the h...

Based on a true story about one of the biggest and most successful undercover operations in the history of the FBI as seen through the eyes of the criminal.

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, sex and corruption. Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire - especially a taste for young girls - resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the police officers investigating the appalling charges against him, Filthy Rich examines all sides o...

In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. Journalist Eichenwald transforms the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, suitable for readers of thrillers and business books alike. In the roller-coaster style of a novel, the narrative takes readers...

Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness is a casebook of fascinating true stories from Singapore, Malaysia, HK, The Philippines and Indonesia. Its opening case begins when the body of a woman is found in a Singapore nature park. Nobody has reported her missing. Nobody knows who she is. The only clue to her identity is a set of tiny numbers etched into a series of implants in her teeth. Police door-knock the dentists of Singapore until they find the one who treated her...

Jabez, as he was universally known, was a business man, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. He was also an astonishing scoundrel - a liar, adulterer and cheat - who perpetrated the most destructive fraud of the nineteenth century. When the Liberator building society collapsed under the weight of its own extravagant malpractice, thousands of people were left defrauded and destitute. Jabez, the Liberator's moving spirit, immediately took flight to Argentina, accompanied...

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota - George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the £10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle 1.2 million dollars from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees...

Offers an inside look at a federal sting operation that brought down three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the deputy mayor of New Jersey in 2009.

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? In "The Wizard of Lies", Diana B. Henriques of "The New York Times" - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke - has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than one hundred interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime, including Madoff's first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henri...