Crime Control

It is six years since special agent Samuel Lynch left the FBI following the disappearance of his son, Daniel. Lynch believes an underground organisation known as The Railroad is responsible and has never stopped searching.

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page turner from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. "Harrowing ... powerful." -Associated Press Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a...

On the night of February 14, 2020, celebrated therapist Amie Harwick returned to her Hollywood Hills home after an evening with friends. Hours later, police found her gravely injured beneath her third-floor balcony. Inside the house were signs of a violent struggle—and evidence that the man she had once feared had waited years to reach her again. Amie had built a remarkable life from difficult beginnings. Intelligent, ambitious, and fiercely compassionate, she transformed herself from a small-town Pennsylvania girl into a respected marriage and family therapist, author, educator, and ...

Before the crash, there were messages. Thousands of them. The Crash is a chronological transcript of the publicly released text-message records between Dominic Russo and Mackenzie Shirilla, covering 12 January 2020 to 30 July 2022. Compiled from digital evidence records and arranged from oldest to newest, this book allows readers to follow the conversation as it unfolded over time. The messages are reproduced as faithfully as possible, preserving original spelling, punctuation, slang, profanity, abbreviations, emotional tone, timestamps, reactions, attachments, and entries with no ...

Gun-rights advocate John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, rebuts recent antigun “factoids” with real statistics. When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that’s accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, politicians, and media want you to...

Bowart's Operation Mind Control: The Cryptocracy's Plan to Psychocivilize You is a classic in the annals of conspiracy research. It is a disturbing account of the secret use of mind control technology, by a secret government (or "cryptocracy"), with an aim to pacifying whole populations and furthering private global-investment strategies. Meticulously researched and well-written, it remains - even today - one of the best books on the topic.

Controlled Access is a psychological conspiracy thriller about a hidden organization that does not need to kidnap people by force—it simply controls the systems meant to protect them. Mercer operates through schools, courts, hospitals, airports, correctional facilities, private carriers, and government databases. A changed custody order, an altered medical chart, a cloned credential, or a redirected transfer can make an ordinary person disappear while every official involved believes they followed proper procedure.

On the morning of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts and her two young daughters vanished from their home in Frederick, Colorado. Within days, the case would expose one of the most disturbing acts of domestic homicide in modern American history. The Watts Family Murders: Disengagement, Deception, and Erasure is a comprehensive true crime case analysis that moves beyond headlines, speculation, and sensationalism to examine how this crime became possible—and why it was so widely misunderstood. Rather than presenting a recycled narrative of shock or focusing on lurid detail, this book ...

One match. One grudge. One killer? DCI David Garrick faces his most dangerous case yet. A predator is stalking victims through dating apps—selecting targets, gaining trust, and killing without leaving a trace. At the same time, a ruthless arsonist is setting fires across the city—each blaze more deliberate, more destructive, and hiding something far darker beneath the flames. At first, the cases seem unconnected. They’re not. As the investigations collide, Garrick and his team are pulled into a deadly game of deception where every lead is a lie—and every suspect has something to ...

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. 

On July 4, 2022, a shooter climbed onto a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois, and opened fire on a Fourth of July parade below, killing seven people and wounding dozens more. Prosecutors charged Robert “Bobby” Crimo III with the mass shooting. But this attack was part of something even more insidious. Bobby had created an elaborate game—complete with cryptic videos, a book of numbers, and an eerie online presence—designed to seed a conspiracy theory about the massacre.

A respected law professor. A bitter custody dispute. A murder-for-hire plot that took more than a decade to fully expose. On July 18, 2014, Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor and devoted father of two, was shot in the garage of his Tallahassee home after an ordinary morning with his children. At first, the crime seemed almost impossible to understand. Dan was not a man tied to violence. He was a scholar, a son, a friend, and a father fighting to remain close to his boys after divorce. But as investigators followed the evidence, the case moved far beyond the driveway. The ...

"The Parisian Underworld: A Tale of John Wick and the Battle for Control" is an action-packed, thrilling novel that takes you on a journey through the streets of Paris as one man battles for power and control in the criminal underworld. John Wick, the infamous assassin known for his deadly precision and loyalty, finds himself in the heart of Paris as he is drawn into a war between two powerful factions vying for control of the city's criminal empire. With his signature guns and combat skills, John sets out to restore order and put an end to the violence and chaos that has overtaken the city...

“A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar...

THE BOY THEY WIRED TO A CHAIR. Fall 1959. A room on Divinity Avenue with a one-way mirror. Harvard asks a seventeen-year-old boy to write an essay — his deepest beliefs, his understanding of the purpose of human life. Then they hand his words to a trained adversary and tell him to take the boy apart. The experiment ran for three years. Twenty-two subjects. More than two hundred hours of filmed psychological destruction. The youngest subject was given a code name. The code name was LAWFUL. His name was Theodore John Kaczynski. File 007 of The Unsealed Archives traces the full arc — from ...

A self-proclaimed vampire. His harem of “witches.” And the small-town murder that shocked America. When twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe disappeared after a Tinder date, the quiet town of Wilber, Nebraska was stunned. Days later, her dismembered body was found scattered across nearby...

What makes ordinary people surrender everything to dangerous leaders? Why do intelligent followers remain loyal even when abuse, manipulation, and fear become impossible to ignore? And why do cults continue emerging in the modern world despite decades of public warnings and infamous tragedies? Dangerous Cult Leaders explores the chilling true stories behind some of history’s most manipulative and destructive movements. From apocalyptic prophets and extremist communes to modern online influence networks and psychological control systems, this gripping nonfiction book examines how ...

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police...

I dared a Guardian dragon to kiss me. Now he's my husband. I sneak out to a nightclub and end up pregnant by the coldest dragon guardian in Avalora… Zephran Knoxon—stoic, terrifyingly disciplined, painfully handsome, and emotionally unavailable. After we are forced to marry, I wake to find breakfast waiting every morning. He learns exactly which foods I can keep down because pregnancy has made me nauseous. He lets me help hunt the monster murdering dragon-shifters across Avalora. Now we are examining a crime scene. I notice a clue everyone else missed. That's the moment he starts seeing...

Oxford colleges. Milton Keynes estates. Affluent Berkshire. Fifteen documented crimes that shattered the belief that serious violence always happens somewhere else. The Thames Valley is commonly presented as the safe side of England: prosperous commuter towns, respected institutions, carefully planned communities and quiet residential streets within easy reach of London. But respectability is not the same as protection. Spanning more than a century of British true crime, Thames Valley examines fifteen murders, attacks, miscarriages of justice and institutional failures from Oxfordshire, ...