Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves.
In May 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel, a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased Marrow, beat him unmercifully, and killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. 30 years after the murder, the author returns to his hometown to make sense of what happened.
Gangsters, guns, and political battles—this book has them all. From Capone to Raymond Parks, the moonshining founder of NASCAR, this book examines the Prohibition era of American history.
A former confidence man and master impostor recounts his crimes, capture, imprisonment, and current career as a highly paid crime consultant, in a new edition of his best-selling, firsthand account of his international exploits.
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building inNew York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. Themurderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.
In 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas charged three teens—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teens were convicted.
In the spring of 1865, President Lincoln travels through Washington, D.C., after finally winning America's bloody Civil War. In the midst of celebrations, he is assassinated at Ford's Theatre by a famous actor named John Wilkes Booth. What follows is a thrilling chase, ending with a fiery shoot-out and swift justice for the perpetrators.
In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche—a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates.
At age 12, Simeon Wright saw and heard his cousin Emmett Till whistle at a white woman at a grocery store; he was sleeping in the same bed with him when Emmett was taken; and he was at the sensational trial. This is his gripping coming-of-age memoir and the story of a grotesque crime that became the catalyst for the civil rights movement.
New Orleans right after WWI. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axe and hacking them right in their own cushy beds! The pattern is the same: a piece of the door is removed for entry, and the assailant aims straight for the head! Why? How could he fit through that piece in the door? The man is never found for sure but speculations abound!
This graphic novel tells the real-life story of an 11-year-old gang member from Chicago who shot a little girl, and then was hunted by both the police and members of his own gang. Gritty black and white art by Randy DuBurke illustrate the darkness and despair of life on the run in mid-90s Chicago.
In the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer terrorized the area near San Francisco, California, killing at least five people. The killer mailed letters to newspapers written in code, daring police to discover his identity. He taunted the police and spread fear around San Francisco and beyond. Would the police and the public, working together, find this terrifying monster?