Download or read book The Black Gang written by Sapper and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond discovers that a stint of bribery and blackmail is undermining England’s democratic tradition and forms the Black Gang, bent on tracking down the perpetrators. A trap is set to lure the criminal mastermind behind everything and all goes to plan until Drummond meets with an American clergyman and his daughter.

Download or read book Down Amongst the Black Gang written by Richard P. de Kerbrech and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the ' black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here deKerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers. Beginning with a journey around some of the major elements of machinery that one might encounter in the giant ships' engine and boiler rooms, the sheer skill and strength that a man in this employ must have had is brought to the fore. The human side of working for Titanic and her contemporaries is also explored through an investigation of stokers' duties, their environment and conditions: what it was like to be one of them. An oft-ignored part of Titanic's story, the importance of the black gang and the job they performed is brought to life, making poignant their fate on the maiden crossing of Titanic. This certainly is a book that no Titanic-era shipping historian or researcher should be without.

Download or read book Gang Leader for a Day written by Sudhir Venkatesh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.

Download or read book The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang written by Hans Jürgen Press and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, Angela, Ralph and Keith, known together as the Black Hand Gang, prove their skill as detectives during four exciting episodes in which they uncover a forger, capture a burglar and enlist the aid of the local police when things get a bit sticky. Every story has illustrations which provide the clues discovered by the Gang. All the necessary clues are shown so you can be a detective with them. But you have to be sharp to keep up with the Black Hand Gang! As the Gang tracks down the criminals, you can keep a score of clues you get right and add them up at the end of the book.

Download or read book Bull dog Drummond written by Herman Cyril McNeile and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Almighty Black P Stone Nation written by Natalie Y. Moore and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the Stones criminals, brainwashed terrorists, victims of their circumstances, or champions of social change? Or were they all of these, their role perceived differently by different races and socioeconomic groups? --

Download or read book The Holly written by Julian Rubinstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an “invisible city” within a historically white metropolis. While shootings there weren’t uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered anti-gang activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state’s most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun? In The Holly, the award-winning Denver-based journalist Julian Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. Much more than a crime story, The Holly is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter. With a cast that includes billionaires, elected officials, cops, developers, and street kids, the book explores the porous boundaries between a city’s elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. It also probes the fraught relationships between police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex–gang members as they struggle to put their pasts behind them. In The Holly, we see how well-intentioned efforts to curb violence and improve neighborhoods can go badly awry, and we track the interactions of law enforcement with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders of a neighborhood. When Roberts goes on trial, the city’s fault lines are fully exposed. In a time of national reckoning over race, policing, and the uses and abuses of power, Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what’s at stake.

Download or read book The Black Widow Gang written by Rick Silvestre and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Widow Gang explores the lives of Munchie, Goofer and Rey discovering fundamental truths about their characters and identity. In cinematic terms, The Black Widow Gang could be the prequel to Easy Rider, with Billy, George Hanson and Captain America before they became icons of a nation in turmoil. The story is set in Monte-Vista, California, a village tucked away in a corner of the San Francisco Bay Area. Ride with the three main characters from their early days on Sting Rays, through the awkwardness of puberty and their clumsy high school attempts at gallantry, onto motorcycles, sex and drugs. WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR PARENTAL READING. Contains graphic language, drugs, violence, teen sex, adult themes and alternative family values that may be worth exploring. "I really enjoyed the story immensely. Reality, without offense... it re-inspired me." – Dominick "Man, it was like reliving it all over again ." – Randy (a.k.a. Goofer) The book you are purchasing was borne from the author Rick Silvestre's need to self-medicate the never-ending pain from a traumatic event early in his life. The end result is forgivenss of himself and surprisingly his father.

Download or read book Black and Free written by Tom Skinner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless classic on the depths of God¿s love. Must read for every black to grasp their history and potential and every white seeking sensitivity toward their African-American brothers and sisters.

Download or read book The Black Gang written by H. C. McNeile and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearsome cadre of ex-soldiers joins Bulldog Drummond on his second explosive adventure Eight evil men assemble in an English country house. Thieves, white slavers, drug dealers, and communists, they share one common goal: the destruction of everything that England holds dear. Police surround the manor in preparation for a raid. Suddenly, a gang of men in black masks appears and knocks the officers unconscious. Whips in hand, the Black Gang enters the house—and the crooks inside beg for the soft touch of the police. A conspiracy against the English crown is afoot, the plotters operating just within the boundaries of the law—making it impossible for Scotland Yard to intervene. Thankfully, the Black Gang has no such restraints. Led by the fearless veteran Bulldog Drummond, they will stop at nothing to save England, no matter how many lashings they must deliver along the way. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Download or read book Williams Gang written by Jeff Forret and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Download or read book The Black Dog Gang written by Robert Newton and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our bags full of rats, the five of us began walking towards the line. We'd gone only a few yards when a voice sounded off to our left. 'What 'ave we 'ere, then?' it said. We turned our heads and say Bluey Lonnegan lifting himself up off a sandstone wall. 'You're lookin' at the Black Dog Gang,' said Mickey. 'No doubt ya heard a us?' The gang was Mickey's idea. We'd heard the rumours – rats were coming in off the ships and spreading disease. Then the government started offering tuppence a rat, so we decided to get stuck in. But we hadn't counted on someone getting sick. Or on Mickey's dad finding his rats chaining Mickey up. And what happened next . . . well, it would change things forever . . .

Download or read book MS 13 written by Steven Dudley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the year’s most important books, a gripping meticulously reported account of the rise of one of the world’s most notorious street gangs.” —Mitch Weiss, Pulitzer Prize winner Winner of the Lukas Prize An NPR Best Book of the Year The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, Alex and his brother fled El Salvador for the US and formed the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Initially bound by a love of heavy metal music, the group soon took on a harder edge, selling drugs, stealing cars and killing rivals. Gang members like Alex were incarcerated and deported. But in the prison system, the group only grew stronger. Today, MS-13 is one of the most infamous street gangs on earth—and also largely misunderstood. Longtime organized crime investigator Steven Dudley brings readers inside the nefarious group to tell a broader story of flawed US and Central American policies and the exploitative, unequal systems that shape them. “A remarkable feat of reporting; the ways in which the United States is complicit in the creation and preservation of MS-13 might well keep you awake deep into the night, as it did me.” —Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises “By detailing the experiences of gang members and victims alike, he anatomizes the complex, fluid dynamics of this elusive transnational network. A startling book.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times–bestselling author of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks “The definitive account of MS-13 . . . An outstanding book for true crime readers.” —Library Journal (starred review)

Download or read book Life Lessons written by Lorenzo 'El Heru' Fosselman, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life & Lessons gives readers a historical breakdown of events and circumstances that gave rise to the black criminal street gang mentality. Exploring topics such as: The effects of social, economical, environmental and psychological subjugation. 150+ years of Black struggle for human & civil rights. Criminal laws enacted as traps & pitfalls in the making of modern mass incarceration. [I.e. Black Codes, Jim Crow, Crime Bill, Step Act, Mandatory Minimum sentences and Three Strikes etc.] Life & Lessons offers a critical analysis of the gang culture; and a resurgent call for reform & decriminalization; insight into manhood, & the G-code. Including a manual for self development equipped with tools necessary to creating a game plan for survival and success.

Download or read book The Black Hand Gang written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of neighborhood children, known as the Black Hand Gang, have caught a thief and a smuggler, helped a street child return to school, and are now on the verge of trouble as they trail a mystery man.

Download or read book The Black Gang written by Herman Cyril Mcneile and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the Great War is over it seems that the hostilities are not, and when Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond discovers that bribery and blackmail is undermining England's democratic tradition, he forms the Black Gang to track down the perpetrators of such plots.