Criminals & Outlaws
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Los Grandes, Pancho Villa
$5.95 Read more- Series: Los Grandes
- Author: Tomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2003
- ISBN10: 9706666052
- Language: Spanish
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
$19.00 Read moreIn this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking w… [more below]
- Author: Stiles, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0375705589
- Language: English
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Arkansas Godfather: The Story of Owney Madden and How He Hijacked Middle America
$22.50 Add to cartOwney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America’s most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire…. [more below]
- Author: Nown, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1935106511
- Language: English
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail
$21.99 Add to cartRusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Au
- Author: McFadden, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 371
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312330340
- Language: English
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Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
$16.95 Add to cartOffering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman’s struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new ma
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1569762856
- Language: English
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
$26.00 Read moreAn Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast–this is the fascinating true st… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 080654225X
- Language: English
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A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
$12.99 Read more“Friendships, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience-this was the ‘glue’ that held us together.”
These were the principles that the greatest Mafia “Boss if Bosses,” Joseph Bonnano, lived- Author: Bonanno, Joseph
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2003
- ISBN10: 0312979231
- Language: English
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You Can’t Win
$24.95 Add to cartYou Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction by
- Series: Tramp Lit
- Author: Black, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1936239612
- Language: English
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Front Row on Death Row
$19.95 Read moreThe author visits death row inmates over the course of six visits and recounts his frank discussions that challenge and change his beliefs about the death penalty, incarceration, and indeed the human … [more below]
- Author: Schonveld, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1929647530
- Language: English
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You Can’t Win
$16.00 Read moreThe favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hoo
- Author: Black, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1902593022
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Saved My Life
$19.99 Add to cartA female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both
Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1402273142
- Language: English
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South End Syndicate: How I Took Over the Genovese Springfield Crew
$27.48 Add to cart“The last days of the Roman Empire, if it were populated by snitches, gamblers, mobsters, lowlifes, and homicidal maniacs. In other words, this book is entertaining as hell. In chronicling one small, … [more below]
- Author: Arillotta, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1949590763
- Language: English
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The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
$10.99 Read moreTo what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meetin… [more below]
- Author: Birkbeck, Matt
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0425266850
- Language: English
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The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation
$19.95 Add to cartDiscover the definitive book on the Menendez case–and the disquieting true story behind Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a- Author: Rand, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745974
- Language: English
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Prisoner of Love
$24.95 Add to cartStarting in 1970, Jean Genet–petty thief, prostitute, modernist master–spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people… [more below]
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: January 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170288
- Language: English
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Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw
$34.75 Add to cartIn Before Billy the Kid, author Melody Groves explores the early life of the infamous outlaw, the teenage boy who loved to sing and dance. The young man who was polite, educated, and popular. A boy wh
- Author: Groves, Melody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063499
- Language: English
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West
$16.95 Add to cartWho was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author… [more below]
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038389
- Language: English
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Catching Hell: A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal
$34.95 Add to cartFour days on the job Jay Dobyns was shot point-blank in the back by a criminal suspect. The bullet travelled through his lung and exited his chest. For the next twenty-seven years, he accepted every d
- Author: Dobyns, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0692125043
- Language: English
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Serial Killers of Mexico: Chilling Stories of Evil Buried Underneath the Narcos Drug Wars
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of chilling stories of murders from Mexico, one of the world’s most prolific hunting grounds for serial killers.
“If I was a serial killer looking for new victims, I’d head over the border
- Author: Clarkson, Wensley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1802791272
- Language: English
