Download or read book The Dynamite Fiend written by Ann Larabee and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynamite Fiend brings to light the stunning story behind one of the most devious criminals of the nineteenth century, Alexander "Sandy" Keith. Beginning his dark career as a Confederate secret agent, Keith helped orchestrate some of the most infamous terrorist plots of the Civil War. In peacetime, dogged by creditors and victims of his frauds, Keith kept on the move, leaving more scams, schemes, and cheated women in his wake. As his situation became more desperate, his obsession with explosives and violence became more intense, leading to a horrifying plot that he put together while posing as a prosperous American businessman living in Germany. In 1875, one of Keith's bombs exploded on a dock, killing eighty people and injuring fifty more. The world heralded the deed as the "Crime of the Century" and Keith became the "Dynamite Fiend" and a true mass murderer. In The Dynamite Fiend, author Ann Larabee unfolds this engrossing tale of hidden identity, technological obsession, and an unparalleled lust for power and profit.
Download or read book Dynamite Spies and Codes written by Thomas J. Tunney and published by Hva Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic true crime thriller from the Chief of New York City's first Bomb Squad. Before America entered the First World War, we were under attack by a new type of foe--international terrorists. Bombs were planted and ships were sunk. To protect America from this new threat the first Bomb Squad was created, headed by Thomas J. Tunney, a young captain of the NYPD. Based in New York City, his team tracked down dozens of spies, from upstate New York to Hoboken to Long Island, as well as India, Japan and beyond. In Dynamite, Spies and Codes, Tunney tells the riveting story of how he and his men pursued and apprehended these enemies of the state. His story is brimming with details about going undercover, breaking codes and hunting down anarchists. Tunney and his team were responsible for protecting America from some of the biggest threats to our country, from stopping an attempted bombing of St. Patrick's Cathedral, to uncovering the members of the infamous crime gang The Black Hand, to the capture of the man who planted bombs on dozens of American passenger ships--including the Lusitania. Dynamite, Spies and Codes is a first-hand look at early detective work by the man who has been called, "The nation's first head of Homeland Security" by New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum. Features rare photos of codebooks, homemade bombs, undercover police and criminals in disguise. This book was originally published under the title Throttled! The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters.
Download or read book Secret Spy Codes and Messages written by Christy Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did real-life spies communicate in secret? Readers get a sneak peek at real spies and the gear they used to complete their missions!"--
Download or read book Danger Dynamite written by Anne Capeci and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger: Dynamite! is the first book in a mystery series based on a page from American history, featuring a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers. Everyone in the isolated town of Scenic knows that railway workers are using dynamite to blast an eight-mile train tunnel through the Cascade Mountains. A case of dynamite is found near the schoolhouse, even though explosives aren't allowed inside the camp town where the workers and their families live. Before the source can be found, the crate disappears! Ten-year-old Billy and his best friend Finn want to find out who stole the dynamite and what they plan to do with it. The boys' search leads them back to a thirty-year-old gold robbery—and face to face with a dangerous outlaw who will stop at nothing to retrieve his treasure. This fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.
Download or read book Advocating Weapons War and Terrorism written by Ian E. J. Hill and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technē’s Paradox—a frequent theme in science fiction—is the commonplace belief that technology has both the potential to annihilate humanity and to preserve it. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism looks at how this paradox applies to some of the most dangerous of technologies: population bombs, dynamite bombs, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and improvised explosive devices. Hill’s study analyzes the rhetoric used to promote such weapons in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining Thomas R. Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, the courtroom address of accused Haymarket bomber August Spies, the army textbook Chemical Warfare by Major General Amos A. Fries and Clarence J. West, the life and letters of Manhattan Project physicist Leo Szilard, and the writings of Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski, Hill shows how contemporary societies are equipped with abundant rhetorical means to describe and debate the extreme capacities of weapons to both destroy and protect. The book takes a middle-way approach between language and materialism that combines traditional rhetorical criticism of texts with analyses of the persuasive force of weapons themselves, as objects, irrespective of human intervention. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is the first study of its kind, revealing how the combination of weapons and rhetoric facilitated the magnitude of killing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and illuminating how humanity understands and acts upon its propensity for violence. This book will be invaluable for scholars of rhetoric, scholars of science and technology, and the study of warfare.
Download or read book Anarchy and Anarchists written by Michael J. Schaack and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe" by Michael J. Schaack is a comprehensive exploration of a tumultuous period in history. Schaack delves deep into the rise of anarchism, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the movement's origins, key figures, and its impact on society. This historical account offers valuable insights into the social and political dynamics of the time, shedding light on the motivations and ideologies of anarchists. Schaack's meticulous research and engaging narrative make this book an essential read for anyone interested in the history of radical movements.
Download or read book Miss Fury written by Tarpé Mills and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois written by Illinois. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Spy in America written by John Price Jones and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spy in a Little Black Dress written by Maxine Kenneth and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "inventive spy romp that's fast, playful and fun" inspired by an actual letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jackie Kennedy, revealing her job offer from the newly formed CIA (Chris Ewan, author of The Good Thief's Guide to Venice). When young Jackie Bouvier receives her second assignment from the CIA, she knows it will go better than her first. She managed to survive the Paris job-while looking her best in Givenchy, no less-but now she's completed her official CIA training. So she's excited to show her boss exactly what she can do for her country. Her new mission: Go undercover in sultry Havana and investigate a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. But before Jackie can infiltrate the communist cabal, she's in past her hemline in danger. In another exciting adventure, she colludes with Grace Kelly, dances with Frank Sinatra, and flirts with an up-and-coming congressman from Massachusetts. As the international intrigue escalates, Jackie must use all her finely honed skills to stay ahead of her enemies . . . and make sure spying never goes out of fashion.
Download or read book Rosie Raja Churchill s Spy written by Sufiya Ahmed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling and empowering WWII adventure about the French resistance and their British allies, with a determined, Muslim heroine. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Emma Carroll, and those looking for diverse historical fiction. July, 1941. Rosina Raja is half-Indian and half-English. She has always lived in India, so when her mother passes away and she moves to England (where it rains all the time) she is miserable and doesn't have any friends. Life changes dramatically for Rosie when she discovers that her army captain father is actually a spy for the British government. She can't bear to be left behind so she stows away in his plane. Finding herself in occupied France, Rosie is soon drawn into the struggle against the Nazis. With new allies and new enemies at every turn, she must help her father complete his mission, and more importantly... make sure they both get home alive.
Download or read book Johnny Dynamite written by Ken Fitch and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burn Bomb Destroy written by Michael Digby and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime.” —New York Journal of Books Many believe that World War I was only fought “over there,” as the popular 1917 song goes, in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgium—they are wrong. There was a secret war fought in America; on remote railway bridges and waterways linking the United States and Canada; aboard burning and exploding ships in the Atlantic Ocean; in the smoldering ruins of America’s bombed and burned-out factories, munitions plants, and railway centers; and waged in carefully disguised clandestine workshops where improvised explosive devices and deadly toxins were designed and manufactured. It was irregular warfare on a scale that caught the United States woefully unprepared. This is the true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror on the American homeland before and during World War I. “Using historical records and other sources ranging from pre-World War I through the twenty-first century, Digby’s book is a compelling narrative about people involved in German-inspired events to keep America out of World War I.” —Over the Front “An excellent overview of the tangled web of German espionage in the US.” —Roads to the Great War
Download or read book Go Spy the Land written by George Alexander Hill and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies. The daring escapades of some of the first members of Britain's secret service are revealed in this account of perilous adventure and audacious missions in Imperial and revolutionary Russia. First published in 1932, Hill's rip-roaring narrative recounts tales of his fellow operatives Arthur Ransome - author of Swallows and Amazons and one of the most effective British spies in Russia - and Sidney Reilly - so-called 'Ace of Spies' and architect of a thwarted plot to assassinate the Bolshevik leadership. Unavailable for decades, this lost classic offers fascinating portraits of a world unfathomable to those growing up against a backdrop of WikiLeaks and cyber espionage, and of true-life characters whose exploits were so extraordinary that they have entered the realm of legend.
Download or read book Anarchy and Anarchists written by Michael J. Schaack and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this long and detailed account of the investigations into the Haymarket case was a member of the police force and a colleague of Inspector Bonfield, the police officer who led the police into the crowd at Haymarket on May 4, 1886. The book, which was widely distributed at the time, included many documents from the case, descriptions of testimony at trial, and many drawings of people and incidents. The author, Michael Schaack, and Inspector Bonfield were subsequently dismissed from the Chicago Police after an investigation for corruption. Subsequent investigations of the trial uncovered perjured testimony by police witnesses and others, and jury rigging by the prosecution.
Download or read book Six Million Dollar Man Fall of Man 4 written by Van Jensen and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there love in the air? Is that even relevant with the questions facing Steve Austin? Such as… Is Steve losing his humanity? Who can he trust? Are his enemies bringing the world closer to the end times or to the precipice of the singularity? Who exactly ARE those enemies? As the answers start to reveal themselves, the ultimate question remains: Who will survive and what bionic parts will be left of them?
Download or read book Bettie Page 7 written by David Avallone and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bettie goes to the Cannes Film Festival! Invasion of the Space Commies isn’t up for the Grand Prix, but that won’t keep our plucky heroine from chasing spies on the French Riviera! David Avallone and Esau Figueroa take you back to 1952, in the next installment of the Secret Diary of Bettie Page.
