Download or read book Gangsters Whores written by G. S. Willmott and published by Crabtree Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangsters & Whores is a romp through some of the more colourful characters of Australian history. G.S. Willmott tells their stories with his trademark mix of dramatisation and fact, embellishing them with the dialogue and vintage photos, facts, figures and a sly sense of humour. This is not Ned Kelly country - this is the stamping ground of notorious madam Tilly Devine, her violent husband Big Jim, her rival Kate Leigh and Squizzy Taylor. Around them racket the gangs of the 1920s and '30s, shooting, slashing, swearing, stealing and terrorising the locals. Feuds and vendettas, blood and sly grog - it's all here. Who got murdered in his bed during a bout of flu? Who went AWOL so often he was more out of the war than in it? Who stole a shop-load of clothing for his girlfriend? Don't know? Find out, in Gangsters & Whores. From the turbulent times in Australia, the story moves to the US and then to Britain, piling more facts, figures and local colour onto the foundation. More fun than a run through the gauntlet but similarly buffeting... Gangsters & Whores is an unforgettable visit to the days of yore (and a quick glimpse into the equally lively resent as the author brings us up to date.) - Sally Odgers, Editor
Download or read book Gangsters written by Lewis Yablonsky and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why young people participate in violent gang behavior The effects of gang violence are witnessed every day on the streets, in the news, and on the movie screen. In all these forums, gangs of young adults are associated with drugs and violence. Yet what is it that prompts young people to participate in violent behavior? And what can be done to extract adolescents from the gangster world of crime, death, and incarceration once they have become involved? In Gangsters: 50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America, Lewis Yablonsky provides answers to the most baffling and crucial questions regarding gangs. Using information gathered from over forty years of experience working with gang members and based on hundreds of personal interviews, many conducted in prisons and in gang neighborhoods, Yablonsky explores the pathology of the gangsters' apparent addiction to incarceration and death. Gangsters is divided into four parts, including a brief history of gangs, the characteristics of gangs, successful approaches for treating gangsters in prison and the community, and concluding with a review and analysis of notable behavioral and social scientific theories of gangs. While condemning their violent behavior in no uncertain terms, Yablonsky offers hope through his belief that, given a chance in an effective treatment program, youths trapped in violent behavior can change their lives in positive ways and, in turn, facilitate positive change in their communities and society at large.
Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.
Download or read book The Last Pass written by Gary M. Pomerantz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret"--
Download or read book Undersee Sud written by James Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor vilage boy from The Bremerhaven area joins the Army and gets transferred into the new Luftwaffe. He becomes a fighter ace in Spain with the Condor Legion and is awarded an Iron Cross and meets The Fuhrer. He is then transferred to work for a Field Marshall and meets his love for life on a visit to a death camp in Poland. He saves her life and they marry in Bremerhaven via a friendly priest. He designs an escape plan in early part of war, for senior Nazis and Military to escape to Argentina, if the war was ever lost which was impossible for it to be. However it is lost by The Fuhrer's decisons and they escape to Argentina and make new lives there. His Jewish wife and him raise a family and start businesses and live happily. Until a happy event goes badly wrong and they both die; but their love survives Nazi hatred; and they meet once again out there in the Cosmos to be together for eternity.
Download or read book White But Not Quite written by Kalmar, Ivan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s. Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.
Download or read book Cocaina written by Magnus Linton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pablo Escobar, Colombia's “King of Cocaine,” was killed, the world thought—or hoped—the cocaine industry would crumble. But ten years later the country's production had almost quadrupled, and since 2001, Colombia has produced more than 60% of all the cocaine consumed in the world. Cocaine is both a curse and a salvation for Colombians. Farmers grow coca for cash but fear discovery. Families must cooperate with drug-funded guerrillas or go on the run. Destitute teens become trained killers for a quick buck in a ruthless underworld where few survive for long. At the same time, tension grows between Colombia's right-wing government and its socialist neighbors in Latin America. With the failed US War on Drugs playing into this geopolitical brew, the future of cocaine is about more than what happens to street dealers and their customers. Based on three years of research and more than 100 interviews with growers, traffickers, assassins, refugees, police, politicians, and drug tourists, Cocaína is a brilliant work of journalism, and an insight into one of the world's most troubling industries.
Download or read book Memoirs of My struggles written by Neil Chuma and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war on drugs has created many problems in our society......This book is an autobiographical alternative account of the author's life and how he came to face one of the most difficult laws ever imposed. The book explores many themes such as racial identity, prison, crime and punishment, poverty, sex, love, drugs, politics, religion, philosophy, death and human identity. The author delves deep into many themes considered taboo and dares to write what many fear to even consider an issue. Discover a new way of looking at the world from the eyes of the man who has faced adversity in all its might.
Download or read book Plays written by Robert David MacDonald and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webster; Summit Conference; Chinchilla; De Sade Show. A memorial volume featuring four of the acclaimed playwright's works following his death earlier this year.
Download or read book Vulgar Tongues written by Max Décharné and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang—from highwaymen to hip-hop—is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all the vocabularies available to us, slang is the most alive, constantly evolving and—as it leaks into the mainstream and is taken up by all of us—infusing the language with a healthy dose of vitality. Witty, energetic and informative Vulgar Tongues traces the many routes of slang, beginning with the thieves and prostitutes of Elizabethan London and ending with the present day, where the centuries-old terms rap and hip-hop still survive, though their meanings have changed. On the way we will meet Dr. Johnson, World War II flying aces, pickpockets, schoolchildren, hardboiled private eyes, carnival geeks and the many eccentric characters who have tried to record slang throughout its checkered past. If you’re curious about flapdragons and ale passion, the changing meanings of punk and geek, or how fly originated on the streets of eighteenth-century London and square in Masonic lodges, this is the book for you.
Download or read book Front Sight written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of three interconnected novellas follows each generation of the iconic Swagger family—grandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Lee—from New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and “true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Stephen Hunter. In The Night Train, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he’s brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug—it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and kills many of the rest. Will Charles be able to stop the ring before it’s too late? Or is he in over his head among the dark streets of Chicago? Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery in Johnny Tuesday that left two dead and a fortune missing in small-town Maryland. At every turn, however, he’s met with silence and hostility from the townsfolk, which makes sense when he uncovers municipal corruption, working-class exploitation, gang politics, jaded aristocrats, scheming gamblers, a hitman, a femme fatale. And a whole bunch of men with guns. Luckily, Earl has brought his own guns in this unputdownable noir mystery. Finally, in Five Dolls for the Gut Hook, a thirty-two-year-old Bob Lee Swagger is back from Vietnam nearly broken over good men lost for nothing. He’s turned hard down that whiskey road to hell. But one afternoon he’s wakened from his nightmares by two men with a problem. As nearby Hot Springs tries to retool its image from gambling paradise to family resort, a butcher has begun to prey on the city’s young women, a figure straight out of a horror movie. Hot Springs Homicide is baffled. “I’m a sniper,” says Bob, “not a detective.” “But,” comes the reply, “you are the son and grandson of two of the greatest detectives this state has ever produced.” On that premise alone, Bob takes up the hunt for a killer who not only kills but desecrates. Using his sniper’s mind, Swagger is able to see things others have missed, drawing ever closer to a showdown. But equally, we understand, Bob Lee Swagger is hunting his own salvation.
Download or read book 1G 6T Part 2 written by James Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in the 3 book trilogy of an air force pilot being transfered into the Police and coming to terms with all the corruption and poor performance; with his attempts to make the Police as good as the air force. In this book he goes from University and Inspector to become a Regional Police Chief.His love for his wife continues and they raise a family and a golden labrador.He loves his job, but it has a dark side to it; and he is shot on patrol which nearly breaks his darling wife's heart. His millionaire friend goes crackers because he is relying on Greg taking over his business empire gradually.
Download or read book Where Angels Dare written by Roger Elwood and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th volume of the best-selling Angelwalk series. Bret Erlandson, a family man and political activist, wages a war with the bright lights and cheap thrills of the gambling casinos. His only hope for victory is an angel named Darien - a soldier of God who has faced these battles many times before. This is the powerful and poignant story of lives wrecked by gambling fever, of desperate players who trade their souls for chips, coins, and a shot at the jackpot. Only the power of God can save them from temptation.
Download or read book Fair Game written by Pathfinder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic Words written by Lance Parkin and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore's graphic novels have inspired a number of Hollywood adaptations, including V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell.
Download or read book Gruco Crime Family The Complete Mafia Romance Series written by Nicole Cypher and published by Nicole Cypher. This book was released on with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Las Vegas, ruled by the Gruco Crime Family, where you'll find… A spicy alphahole politician who has a fake relationship with a woman on the run - His Promise An unhinged mafia capo who’s out for revenge against the tree-hugging vegan who shut down his casino shows - His Pet A jerk of a mob boss who has a one night stand with a rival without knowing her identity - His Prize A talent-appreciating capo who is tasked with deciding the fate of a clever pickpocket after she steals from the mafia - His Puppet A sadistic soldier who gets the opportunity of a lifetime with a masochist willing to keep his secrets - His Property A cinnamon roll capo who decides the fate of a woman after she overhears his mob meeting - His Passerotta A note from Nicole: These books are dark mafia romances that contain abusive content that may be disturbing to some. Especially His Pet (degradation) and His Property (pain play).
Download or read book His Prize A Forbidden Lovers Mafia Romance written by Nicole Cypher and published by Thrilling Dark Romance. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex... He won me in a poker game. It wasn’t my fiancé’s place to bet me, but what do you expect from a man who’s being forced to marry you? Imagine my surprise when the man I met at a chance encounter, the same one I later learned was the don of the Italian mafia, is the one who claims me as his prize. As the daughter of a Russian member of the bratva, I’m supposed to be a peace offering for the Italians. But the don seems to have no idea about it. Settimo Gruco is rumored to be as sinister as he is dangerous, and I’m told if he learns who I am, he’ll kill me. But in a world full of criminals, he becomes the one I trust the most. Settimo... I won her in a poker game. All I wanted was another night with the beautiful girl I met on one of the darkest days of my life, and her fiancé was stupid enough to give it to me. I tell myself Alex is just another girl, but she’s becoming an addiction, and I can’t seem to curb my craving. When I find out her connection to my greatest rival, I’m forced to weigh the benefits of keeping her alive. Despite where she comes from, I trust her. If my gut instinct is right, by the end of the war with the bratva she’ll be my biggest ally… if they don’t kill her first. Tempers are rising, with threats closing in from all sides. In an escalating war, can two opponents join forces? Or is blood truly thicker than water? A note about Gruco Crime Famiy: This is an 18+ standalone mafia romance series with varying tropes and heroes with diverse personalities, intentions, and tolerances for violence. Because of this, each book can be very different, and it’s perfectly okay to hop around! Here’s a brief breakdown of the series. His Promise - Gritty and spicy but not very dark with an alphahole hero and a fake relationship. His Pet - DARK. Lorenzo is out for revenge, and he’s going to get it. His Prize - Gritty and spicy but not very dark with an alphahole hero and a forbidden love. His Puppet - Mid-level dark with a captive heroine. His Property - DARK. Hero is a sadist who loves pain play. His Passerotta - Low-level dark with a captive heroine and a hero who is soft with her.
