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Book The Informer

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  • Author : Liam O'Flaherty
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780156443562
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Informer written by Liam O'Flaherty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish rebel secretly betrays his hunted friend to the British authorities for the price of twenty pounds in hopes of winning back his girl. But he has become an informer, the most hated of all traitors to the Irish revolutionary underworld.

Book The Informer

Download or read book The Informer written by Sean O'Callaghan and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a police station and gave himself up. Sentenced to 539 years' imprisonment for IRA crimes including two murders and many terrorist attacks, O'Callaghan served six of those years before being released by royal prerogative. The reason? For the previous sixteen years O'Callaghan had been the most highly placed informer within the ranks of the IRA and had fed the Irish Garda with countless pieces of invaluable information. He prevented the assassination of the Prince and Princess of Wales at a London theatre; he sabotaged operations, explained strategy and caused the arrests of many IRA members. He has done more than any individual to unlock the code of silence which governs the IRA's members, and in effect made it possible to fight the war against the terrorists. The Informer is the story of a courageous life lived under the constant threat of discovery and its fatal consequences. It is the story of a very modern hero, who is not without sin but who has done and is doing everything in his power, and at whatever personal cost, to atone for the past. From the Hardcover edition.

Book The Informer s Winding Sheet  Or  Nine Oaths for a Shilling  Being a Parable in Five Allegorical Discourses     By Sir Mawdcope Moreclarke

Download or read book The Informer s Winding Sheet Or Nine Oaths for a Shilling Being a Parable in Five Allegorical Discourses By Sir Mawdcope Moreclarke written by Sir Mawdcope MORECLARKE and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Informer

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  • Author : Akimitsu Takagi
  • Publisher : Soho Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 1569472432
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Informer written by Akimitsu Takagi and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he loses his job as a trader after the stock market crashes, Shigeo Segawa is offered lucrative work as an industrial spy. How could he say no? He is soon assigned to seduce an ex-girlfriend and steal an important formula from her husband, who runs a large chemical company. But when the husband is found murdered, Segawa becomes the prime suspect.

Book Informers

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  • Author : Roger Billingsley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-01-11
  • ISBN : 1134032625
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Informers written by Roger Billingsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide? Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the use of informers, there has been a growing debate about the subject, and many feel that stricter controls are needed - but how is this to be achieved without undermining the effectiveness of the system? This is the first book of its kind on informers in Britain, providing an invaluable source of information and analysis from key authorities in the field.

Book The Informers

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  • Author : Bret Easton Ellis
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-06-09
  • ISBN : 0307756440
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Informers written by Bret Easton Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. • “Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland…. Arguably Ellis's best.” —The Boston Globe The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, “You're tan but you don't look happy.” Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

Book Informers Up Close

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  • Author : Mark A. Drumbl
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-02
  • ISBN : 0192667246
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Informers Up Close written by Mark A. Drumbl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informers are generally reviled. After all, 'snitches get stitches.' Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While informers may themselves be victims enlisted by the state, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, are central to the proliferation of endemic human rights abuses. Yet, little is known about exactly why ordinary people end up informing on--at times betraying--other people to state authorities. Through a case-study of Communist Czechoslovakia (1945-1989) that draws from secret police archives, oral histories, and a broad gamut of secondary sources, this book unearths what fuels informers to speak to the secret police in repressive times and considers how transitional justice should approach informers once repression ends. This book unravels the complex drivers behind informing and the dynamics of societal reactions to informing. It explores the agency of both informers and secret police officers. By presenting informers up close, and the relationships between informers and secret police officers in high resolution, this book centres the role of emotions in informer motivations and underscores the value of dignity and reconciliation in transitional reconstruction. This book also leverages research from informing in repressive states to better understand informing in so-called liberal democratic states, which, after all, also rely on informers to maintain law and preserve order.

Book Snitch

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  • Author : Steve Hewitt
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 1441190252
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Snitch written by Steve Hewitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snitch! offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others.

Book Informers in 20th Century Ireland

Download or read book Informers in 20th Century Ireland written by Angela Duffy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informers have been active during many periods of unrest in Ireland but, until Tudor times, they had never been an organized phenomenon until the twentieth century. The decision (or refusal) to inform is dangerous—thus the motives of the informers are compelling, as is their ability to deceive themselves. Drawing on firsthand and newspaper accounts of the Easter Rising and other events, this book provides a history of the gradual development of informing in Ireland. Each informer’s story details their life and secrets and the outcome of their actions. All of them have shared two experiences: the accusation of informing, whether true or false, and betrayal, whether committed or endured.

Book A Plague of Informers

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  • Author : Rachel Weil
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-28
  • ISBN : 0300199287
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book A Plague of Informers written by Rachel Weil and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk.

Book Three Seconds

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  • Author : Anders Roslund
  • Publisher : Quercus
  • Release : 2013-12-03
  • ISBN : 162365341X
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Three Seconds written by Anders Roslund and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PROPULSIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JOEL KINNAMAN, ROSAMUND PIKE, AND COMMON ONE MURDER. Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. But when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes fatally wrong, his secret life begins to crumble around him. TWO MEN. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is assigned to investigate the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann's true identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. THREE SECONDS. Hoffmann must desperately maintain his cover, or else he is a dead man walking. But in the doggedly perceptive Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies.

Book The Informers

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  • Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 1408834537
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Informers written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa) 'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.

Book Informer 001

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  • Author : Yuri Druzhnikov
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 2012-09-30
  • ISBN : 1412849616
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Informer 001 written by Yuri Druzhnikov and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period when Russia was under Stalin, a young boy namedPavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (now called the KGB) that his fatherwas an enemy of the regime. As a result, Pavlik's father wasarrested and disappeared in a Soviet concentration camp. Enemies of theparty later killed the boy, whereupon people proclaimed him a hero.Informer 001 is the first independent study of the Morozovaffair. In book after book, author Druzhnikov discoveredinconsistencies on every fact relating to Morozov. As Druzhnikov piecedtogether the story about Morozov's life, death, and legacy, itbecame clear that the campaign to keep Morozov a hero was centrallydirected. Informer hero number 001, remained a fearful reminder to all;to those who inform, and those who become the victims of denunciations.

Book The Outlook

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 854 pages

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 2534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law

Download or read book The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law written by David Shephard Garland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States of America V  Waller

Download or read book United States of America V Waller written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: