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Description Bob Hamer - The Last Undercover

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There have been many books concerning FBI undercover agents on perilous assignments, but this one by a veteran FBI

agent goes most of them one better with his full-tilt voyages into the darkest fringes of society. After his training

and recruitment into the criminal netherworld, Hamer assumed several identities—such as drug dealer and contract

killer—to penetrate the closed societies of the Chinese, Russian and Iraqi mobs. However, Hamer's controlled

theatrics are most compelling as he infiltrates the security-obsessed North American Man/Boy Love Association disguised

as an aging pedophile, to crack the group and their extensive international network. The sneak peek into that dank

society of chicken hawks is illuminating in its depiction of child sexual abuse. With his practiced lies and disciplined

behavior, Hamer is a peerless undercover agent, although his book sometimes breaks its narrative focus and wanders into

several cases at once. Still, this book possesses power and conviction without being pretentious or pious.



Tommy Dades - Friends Of the Family

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Detectives Louie Eppolito and Steve Caracappa were the most corrupt and dangerous cops in American history. When they

retired in the early 1990s, they left behind a pile of bodies—and for more than a decade, it looked like they were

going to get away with it.



As highly decorated NYPD detectives with access to the department's most sensitive information, they sold their badges

to the Mafia—and became murderers for the mob. Eventually they retired to Las Vegas, believing they had put their

lives of murder and mayhem safely behind them. And they would have lived happily ever after, if not for one dedicated

cop at the end of his career and an assistant district attorney. Detective Tommy Dades and Brooklyn Assistant DA Mike

Vecchione turned this seemingly unsolvable cold-blooded case into one of the great law-and-order stories in the annals

of New York City. And for the first time, in this book, Dades and Vecchione tell the whole inside story of the

investigation.



For Detective Tommy Dades, the case began with a phone call from a distraught mother who just happened to mention an

almost forgotten meeting that had taken place years earlier. Dades and Mike Vecchione had performed cold-case miracles

before, but this one seemed impossible. Together, quietly and tenaciously, they began to uncover the hideous truth. A

highly secret joint state and federal task force began building a body-by-body case against an incredible array of

characters, from one of the most viciously insane Mafia bosses in history—who wanted to kill people he dreamed

were plotting against him—to the one-eyed Jew who knew all the secrets. As the cold case got front-page-headline

hot, Dades and Vecchione encountered an unexpected obstacle: the federal prosecutor plotted to take the case—and

those headlines—away from Brooklyn.



For the first time, the two men who brought this incredible story to life reveal the epic confrontations that occurred

behind the scenes and led to a stunning courtroom announcement—and came perilously close to destroying the case

against the Mafia cops.



Friends of the Family is the complete, inside story of the historic case that rocked the world of law enforcement.





Dave Hall - Into the Devil's Den

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In 1996, the Aryan Nations was considered to be the most dangerous white supremacist group in the United States. This

brutally violent neo-Nazi organization dreamed of carving an isolated homeland out of the American northwest–a

dream they would finance by robbery, intimidation, and murder. For years, the FBI had sought to infiltrate the Aryan

Nations, only to be thwarted by the group’s extreme paranoia of new members.



Enter Dave Hall, a tattooed, 350-pound, six-foot-four former biker. A black belt in martial arts, he could fight,

drink, and ride with the best–which is to say, the worst–of them. But Hall was no stereotypical biker. A

thoughtful, articulate man blessed with a photographic memory and an unshakeable core of decency, Hall was looking for a

new direction in life. After Hall was arrested for his minor involvement in a drug deal, FBI special agent Tym Burkey

gave him a choice: go to jail or become an informant. Hall didn’t go to jail.



So began a most unlikely partnership, between a hell-raising former biker and a by-the-book FBI man. The oddest of odd

couples, they would slowly forge a unique friendship based on trust and support–a friendship that Hall especially

would come to value in the months and years ahead.



For what was supposed to be a short-term assignment grew to something much longer, and bigger in scope, as Hall became

the Ohio Aryan Nations leader’s right hand man. And more and more, Hall suspected that a significant terrorist

action was being planned, something on the order of the Oklahoma City bombing.



Yet with the clock ticking, Hall found his hold on reality crumbling as he was forced into behaviors and beliefs that

repelled him. With the ever-present threat of discovery and death hanging over his head, he felt his psyche start to

fragment, leading to estrangement from his family and friends, and vicious bouts of insomnia, night terrors, and panic

attacks. But it was too late to back out. Together, Hall and Burkey would have to finish their dance with the Devil.







Harrowing and intense, this true-life thriller is a testament to bravery, dedication, and friendship–and a timely

reminder that America’s homegrown terrorists can be just as deadly as those from overseas.Erik Larson - The Devil In the White City

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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers

may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a

highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the

fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was

immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to

construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and

the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo

Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be

responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the

World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his

own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in

alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century

Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing.Robert L. Depue - Between Good and Evil

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The FBI's former top serial-killer hunter shares his unique perspective as both a lawman and a member of the clergy

counseling convicts--revealing the dangerously thin line between good and evil.



Roger L. Depue spent decades tracking down America's most depraved criminals. First as a small town police chief, then

as a S.W.A.T. team member, and ultimately as head of the FBI's famed Behavioral Sciences Unit--the unit responsible for

profiling and hunting serial killers--where he pioneered revolutionary law enforcement programs and techniques that

remain in use today by the FBI and police departments across the globe. In his quest to comprehend the true nature of

good and evil, Depue embarked on a mid-career spiritual sabbatical to become a Brother of the Missionaries of the Holy

Apostles, counseling maximum security inmates. With his combined experiences as both a law enforcement professional and

a member of the clergy, Depue explores the criminal mind and soul as no one has ever done before.James Waller - Becoming Evil

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From the Turks' massacre of Armenians in 1915 through the Serbians' slaughter of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims during

the 1990s, the 20th century was an era of mass killing. Social psychologist Waller (Face to Face: The Changing State of

Racism Across America) develops a four-layered theory of how everyday citizens became involved. First considering

factors in evolutionary psychology such as humans' instinctive xenophobia and desire for social dominance Waller

examines psychosocial influences on the killers, from people's willingness to obey authority even when causing others

physical pain (the famous Milgram experiments of the early 1960s play a role here) to elements of rational self-interest

(subscribing to, or at least not dissenting from, the norms of a military or other group). Waller's third element

focuses on how some groups can create a "culture of cruelty," in which initially reluctant individuals

ultimately commit heinous acts. In his last and most interesting section, Waller shows how a perpetrator learns to see

his victim as a less-than-human "other," so that, in some cases, the victim is even blamed for his or her

death. There is no new research here, and Waller's theory is quite complex. But he clearly and effectively synthesizes a

wide range of studies to develop an original and persuasive model of the processes by which people can become evil.



Susan Scott - Return Of the Black Death

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If the twenty–first century seems an unlikely stage for the return of a 14th–century killer, the authors of

Return of the Black Death argue that the plague, which vanquished half of Europe, has only lain dormant, waiting to

emerge again—perhaps, in another form. At the heart of their chilling scenario is their contention that the

plague was spread by direct human contact (not from rat fleas) and was, in fact, a virus perhaps similar to AIDS and

Ebola. Noting the periodic occurrence of plagues throughout history, the authors predict its inevitable

re–emergence sometime in the future, transformed by mass mobility and bioterrorism into an even moreSheriff David Reichert - Chasing the Devil

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Several years after Ted Bundy’s killing spree began in Washington, the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history

embarked on a murderous rampage that would remain unsolved for two decades. Both preyed on young women but, while

Bundy’s victims were often college students, the Green River Killer pursued prostitutes: runaway teenagers and

women whose precarious lifestyle, Reichert says, made them easy targets for a murderer. The author, then a homicide

detective in the King County Sheriff’s Office, was the lead investigator on the Green River case from the

beginning, when the bodies of three women were found in and near the Green River in suburban Seattle in August 1982.

Twenty years later, DNA testing linked Gary Ridgway to his first victims, and he eventually confessed to killing 53

women. Reichert, by then the county sheriff, finally got to close a case that many thought would never be solved. His

absorbing account offers an in-depth look at the obstacles and the frustrations, the leads that went nowhere and the

prime suspects who were eventually cleared. In this straightforward, just-the-facts approach, Reichert downplays some of

the more sensational aspects that TV has seized on, such as detectives calling on the imprisoned Bundy for help and

using an FBI profiler. He illustrates how policing evolved during the course of the case, thanks to new technology, and

only occasionally slips into defensiveness. Reichert vehemently stands up for his office, which was constantly

second-guessed by the feds, criticized by the press and mistrusted by the victims’ families, who thought the

police would have made a greater effort to find the killer if the women had been more respectable. A great book for true

crime fans, Reichart’s account gives readers a chance to see the hard work that went on behind the scenes.Roy Wendzl - Bind, Torture, Kill

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For thirty-one years, an unremarkable family man stalked, killed, and terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas. He was

a devoted husband. A helpful Boy Scout dad. A reliable, conscientious employee. A dependable church president. And

behind it all, the notorious serial killer BTK-a self-anointed acronym for "bind, torture, kill."



Now that he's in prison serving ten consecutive life sentences, the whole world knows that Dennis Rader is BTK. But the

intricate twists and shocking turns of this story have never before been told by the people who were intimately

acquainted with the BTK killer and Rader the family man, or by the dedicated cops who finally caught him. Bind, Torture,

Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door takes readers behind closed doors, revealing the full and horrific

tale as seen through the eyes of the killer, his victims, the investigators, and the reporters who covered it all.



Bind, Torture, Kill is written by four award-winning crime reporters for The Wichita Eagle with the enthusiastic help

of Wichita police lieutenant Ken Landwehr and his BTK Task Force. With hours of exclusive interviews with key Task Force

members; in-depth interviews with the families of victims; an interview with Jeff Rader, the notorious killer's brother;

and over thirty years' worth of original reporters' notes, archival news stories, photos, documents, and material

previously suppressed at the request of the police, Bind, Torture, Kill lays bare the secret story behind the BTK

psychopath and the people who brought him down.Nigel Cawthorne - Killers

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Killers - The Most Barbaric Murderers of our Times



'On 24 February 1994, the police turned up at 25 Cromwell Street, an ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester,

with a warrant to dig up the back garden. The door was answered by Stephen West, the 20-year-old son of the householders

Fred and Rosemary West. The police told him that they were looking for the body of his sister Heather, who had

disappeared in May 1987 at the age of 16.' The world's most depraved murderers were somebody's neighbour, someone else's

father. What turns a person into a killer? Enter the dark world of true crime. With nineteen chilling chapters on

notorious killers including Harold Shipman and Charles Manson, those less