Special Criminals

16 TRUE AMERICAN CRIME STORIES IN ONE SPECIAL 4 VOLUME BOX SET Do you like true crime stories? You should love these tales then Originally authentic police files, True American Crime Stories are from the 1920s through to the 1950s - the era of gangster, molls and prohibition. Almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times. You may not have heard much about some of these bad guys, but they were real, ruthless hoodlums and all had their "15 minutes ...

A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background...

In this thrilling New York Times bestseller from the worlds most celebrated writer, three bodies are found in a Chicago bedroom at the same time a black book goes missing—leaving the city in more danger than the detectives on the case can handle. Billy Harney was born to be a cop. As the son...

In the late summer of 1944, 80 British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers undertook a covert commando raid, parachuting behind enemy lines into the Vosges Mountains in occupied France to sabotage Nazi-held roads, railways, and ammo dumps, and assassinate high-ranking German officers, undermining the final stand of Hitler's Third Reich. Despite their successes, more than half the men were captured, tortured, and executed. After the war ended, a top-secret black ops unit was formed to hunt down the SS commanders who had murdered their special forces comrades....

A journalist dies asking the wrong questions. A new president hides a blood-soaked secret. And one disgraced soldier won't let it go. Ben Gabriel's life is unraveling. Dishonorably discharged from British Special Forces. Fired from South African military intelligence. His girlfriend vanished without explanation. He's drinking too much, sleeping too little, and running out of reasons to care. Then a journalist is murdered in Cape Town harbor—a man who'd been investigating the president-elect's dark past. Gabriel knows what the authorities won't admit: this wasn't random violence. Someone ...

Detective Billy Harney’s reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.​ For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is...

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common---lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human cruelty.

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen...

A collection of personal remembrances of a 23 year career as a Secret Service Agent. The book details personal, interesting, humorous, and sometimes historical incidents that were experienced in real time.

In this companion to #1 New York Times bestseller The Black Book, Detective Billy Harney chases down a prison escape artist and billionaire crime boss—while a young girl’s life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the...

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest and the assassin's trade... 1942. The Second World War was at its height and still going the way of the Axis powers. In neutral Spain that same war was being carried forward in a secret and deadly game of cat and mouse. British intelligence were helping downed allied airmen and escaped prisoners of war from across occupied Europe to evade the Nazis then return to Britain where they could rejoin their units and carry on the fight. Determined to stop this, the Germans dispatched a special action unit of the Abwehr - the ...

Agent Storm is way too gorgeous for a mere mortal. Considering his looks mean nothing to him, that detail has hindered him all his life. For Kurt, it’s all about his ability to be a good Navy Seal and eventually the FBI agent that works undercover and gets the bad guys. Therefore, when a stranger gives him a hard time in a bar, and then kisses him crazy before she’s done, the aftereffects of that meeting change his whole life. From then on, her problems become his focus, and she leads him on a merry chase… especially when she informs him in no uncertain terms to back off because ...

They're dying in the same order Gabriel visited them. The police think he's the killer. And somewhere, millions in stolen gold wait to be claimed. Ben Gabriel's criminal career is catching up with him in the worst possible way. Prominent members of South African society are being murdered. Brutally. Methodically. And the police have discovered an unmistakable pattern: Gabriel interviewed each victim shortly before their death. He's the prime suspect in a serial killing spree he didn't commit. Meanwhile, the gold magnate whose fortune Gabriel stole is still hunting him with obsessive ...

Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals. In...

Spring 1942. Despite the United States entry into the war, things are still going badly for the British. They find themselves facing serious reverses on many fronts, and are stretched almost beyond breaking point. In the cold waters of the North Atlantic, a battle is raging upon which the fate of Great Britain will be decided. Within this most deadly of engagements, the Nazis have the upper hand. Allied shipping is being lost to enemy submarines at an alarming rate, a rate which cannot be sustained. Both sides know that, if the British lose this campaign, they will lose the war. The British...

Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded by tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four. Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that ...

Agent Walker drops his beloved goddaughter off at the same school where minutes later a shooter begins the devil’s work. Lori Page, an FBI profiler, spots a boy on a bus who’s acting strange. When he disembarks, she notices what appears to be a rifle in his backpack. Suspicions triggered and her instincts screaming, she follows him into his school where all hell breaks loose. Intrigued by the weird behavior of a mysterious beauty, Beau follows her into the building and they both find themselves at the same crime scene. He eventually pairs up with this fascinating woman to stop the ...

Governor Stacy Bolden fears how the world can survive so much dysfunction. When Tanner chooses to partner with Special Agent Isabella, she’s totally bummed. Desperately needing some downtime, she sure-as-he…ck doesn’t want to spend it with him. He’d been the bane of her teenage existence, and now, because of his demands, her boss is forcing her to work with him to protect a child. How the hell could she do that when little people scared her silly? She’d rather face a drugged-up sicko with a loaded handgun and frequently has. Agent Tanner understands that the Governor and her child...

A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special...

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen...