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Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos

Giovanni's Ring is the story of 'Giovanni Rocco,' a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as 'Giovanni Gatto,' who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as 'the real Sopranos.' Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization. Giovanni's Ring is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life inevitably entails.

Giovanni Rocco (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator)

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Memorias de un infiltrado

«¿Iban a sacar sus armas y matarnos a todos? ¿Así es como terminaba mi vida, en una ostentosa guarida de narcotraficantes en la playa de San Diego? ¿Me podría identificar Inez, mi esposa, en la morgue? ¿Qué pasaría con mi familia?» Los capos a los que ayudó a encarcelar lo conocen como Roman Caribe -uno de sus tantos sobrenombres- y sus contactos del FBI, la DEA y la CIA como C. S. 96 (Confidential Source 96). Ésta es la impresionante historia de Caribe, quien operó y coordinó durante años una red de entrega de narcóticos en los Estados Unidos, provenientes de algunos de los cárteles más importantes y mortíferos de México. Con un ritmo trepidante, estas memorias, escritas con la ayuda de Robert Cea, nos muestran cómo Caribe escaló posiciones entre los bajos mundos de la droga gracias a sus grandes dotes de negociador, hasta que un día es detenido transportando un cargamento de cocaína. A partir de ese momento decide colaborar con las agencias federales estadounidenses y se convierte en el informante más exitoso en términos de drogas decomisadas. A la par que Caribe rectifica su camino y lleva una doble vida entre despliegues policiales y arriesgadas operaciones, los peligros se multiplican para él y su familia hasta llegar al punto de casi perder el control. Éste es el épico testimonio de un hombre que logró atravesar un camino de sombras, así como un retrato de la batalla que se libra en contra de feroces traficantes que asolan el imperio de la ley.

Robert Cea, Roman Caribe (Author), Antonio Raluy (Narrator)

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Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous drivers, or corporate gross negligence. There are a lot of ways you can kill someone. I know because I've seen most of them at close quarters.' As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author has presided over many of the high-profile cases that all too often grab our attention in dramatic media headlines - for every unlawful death tells a story. But, unlike most of us, a judge doesn't get to turn the page and move on. Nor does the defendant, or the family of the victim, nor the many other people who populate the court room. Peeling apart six dramatic murder and manslaughter cases, Unlawful Killings removes this distinction between 'them' and 'us'. By detailing the inner workings of the Old Bailey and UK law, the author makes clear that each of us has a vested interest in what happens in the court room - especially when it comes to the death of a fellow human being. Any one of us could end up in the witness-box or even in the dock. And yet most people have only the sketchiest idea of what happens inside a Crown Court. With breath-taking skill and deep compassion, the author describes how cases unfold and illustrates exactly what it's like to be a murder trial judge and a witness to human good and bad. Sometimes very bad. Right now, with our courts straining under the weight of the many heinous crimes being committed, it's not merely the system that is flawed. The fracture lines that run through our society are becoming harder and harder to ignore and, from a unique vantage point, the author warns that we do so at our peril. © Anonymous 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Her Honour Wendy Joseph Kc, Her Honour Wendy Joseph Qc, Wendy Joseph (Author), Her Honour Wendy Joseph Kc, Her Honour Wendy Joseph Qc, Rachel Bavidge, Roy Mcmillan, Wendy Joseph (Narrator)

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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

On the morning of November 4, 2019, a caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities-fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international headlines for weeks, and prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to send in the US Army. In The Colony, Sally Denton delves into the complex story of the LeBaron clan. Their homestead-Colonia LeBaron-is a portal into the past, a place that offers a glimpse of life within a polygamous community on an arid and dangerous frontier in the mid-1800s, though with smartphones and machine guns. Rooting her narrative in written sources as well as interviews with anonymous women from LeBaron itself, Denton unfolds an epic, disturbing tale that spans the first polygamist emigrations to Mexico through the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s and up to the family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult, whose now-imprisoned leader, Keith Raniere, may have based his practices on the society he witnessed in Colonia LeBaron.

Sally Denton (Author), Ann Richardson (Narrator)

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Ciudad de odios: Instantáneas de furia, crimen e intolerancia

El odio es un habitante más de la Ciudad de México, uno poderoso y omnipresente. Viaja en metro, se mete en la vida privada, quema y destroza. Se ensaña con lo diverso, con lo diferente. En esta obra se compendian decenas de crímenes de odio. Producto de una década de investigación, Fernando del Collado reconstruye, con ternura y valentía, buena parte de los casos que evidencian el rostro intolerante y homófobo del odio. Relata el sinsentido de más de cien asesinatos. En un ejercicio inédito entre el periodismo y la literatura, aparecen las vidas segadas, la desolación de las parejas, los amigos y las familias, el silencio de la sociedad indolente. El amor quebrado.

Fernando Del Collado (Author), Héctor Mena (Narrator)

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La ira de México: Siete voces contra la impunidad

Los periodistas más importantes de México dan voz a la indignación popular, en uno de los países más peligrosos para ejercer el periodismo. En estas páginas se reúnen los trabajos de varios de los periodistas más importantes de México: Juan Villoro, Lydia Cacho, Marcela Turati, Segio González Rodríguez, Anabel Hernández, Diego Enrique Osorno, y Emiliano Ruiz Parra. Un alegato imprescindible y estremecedor que denuncia la devastadora situación del país y pone en evidencia que la tragedia nos concierne a todos. Con prólogo de Elena Poniatowska. Introducción de Felipe Restrepo Pombo. Todos saben que el oficio periodístico significa resistencia y muchas veces arriesgar la propia vida. Estamos en uno de los países más peligrosos para ejercer el periodismo, no sólo por el acecho de los criminales, sino porque el poder corruptor de éstos ha convertido a policías y funcionarios del gobierno en sus aliados. Aun así, cada reportero, desde su trinchera, levanta la voz para exponer la degradación institucional, la ineficacia de las autoridades, la violación de los derechos humanos, la corrupción, la impunidad, la violencia. Y en el centro de su escritura están las víctimas, la necesidad de contar sus historias, la necesidad de no olvidar. Sólo una sociedad civil vigorosa e informada logrará afrontar el horror y el caos. Sólo dando voz a la indignación, México podrá empezar a exorcizar sus fantasmas. Del prólogo de Elena Poniatowska: '¿Cuántas 'mayores tragedias' le esperan a México? ¿Cuántas más habrán de sumarse a las víctimas bajo tierra cuyos cuerpos ahora aparecen en todo el territorio nacional? ¿Cuántas fosas más quedan por encontrar? Del suelo de México y sus esqueletos enterrados estalla el dolor, la rabia de vivir en medio de tanta podredumbre...'

Anabel Hernandez, Anabel Hernández, Diego Enrique Osorno, Elena Poniatowska, Emiliano Ruiz Parra, Juan Villoro, Lydia Cacho, Marcela Turati, Sergio González Rodríguez (Author), Karina Castillo, Ricardo Méndez (Narrator)

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A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise-until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime. A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC, she earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University to study aerospace engineering. She was the ultimate girl next door, sweet, generous, and well-adjusted. But Sharon had disturbing secrets so shocking and unique, they took more than a decade to unravel... This is the horrifying true story of a mysterious young woman caught in the violent web of the murderous fugitive she called her father-and a heartrending testament to the profound courage and perseverance of one woman trapped in the grip of extreme evil.

Matt Birkbeck (Author), Skye Borgman (Narrator)

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Shan Hai Jing—A Book Covered With Blood: The Story Of Developers Of The Catalog Of Human Population

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In essence, this story is about how a certain person was searching his bookshelf for something to read and in the end found a book, which turned out to be the source, from which it is possible to obtain absolutely any kind of information about absolutely any person. Meaning, information to the smallest particulars and details about what his or her qualities of personality are, how he or she lives, what he or she really wants to achieve, what he or she hides, and much more. And, it does not matter, if the subject is some person, who lived in the distant past or lives in the present or someone, who will live in the future. Since, as it turned out later on, this literary monument is nothing other than the Catalog of Human Population. In other words, the encyclopedia of Homo sapiens; in essence, the same as encyclopedias, reference books for specialists, which contain complete information about representatives of a particular subspecies of animals, plants, etc. Although at some point, the course of this story turned banal: 'bad guys' from security services, intelligence services, politics decided to not only use this source of knowledge for their dirty deeds, but also to appropriate it solely for their personal use. And, the way they tried to do this is also banal: by physically destroying the author of discovery of the Catalog of Human Population and all of his colleagues. However, the ending of this story makes it stand out from the category of ordinary spy stories. At least because the main characters of this story managed to survive not due to favorable concatenation of circumstances or someone’s help, but thanks to that knowledge, which they discovered in the ancient text, which turned out to be the Catalog of Human Population. Of course, such an outcome upset and continues to upset not only the Russian special services, but also all those people in whose way developers of the Catalog of Human Population got...

Kate Bazilevsky (Author), Digital Voice Matt G (Narrator)

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The Hunt for the Silver Killer: The Shocking True Story of a Murderer who Remains at Large

'A truly astonishing murder mystery - this is proper journalism' Jeremy Clarkson Following a long investigation by the world-famous Sunday Times Insight team, David Collins tells the truly unique story of a string of murder-suicides in north-west England and poses the terrifying question: are they the work of a serial killer who has been operating undetected since the mid-nineties? In 1996 and 1999, two elderly couples died in the small town of Wilmslow, Cheshire. In each case the husband was blamed for turning berserk and killing his wife using a horrifying level of violence. The police failed to make a link between the deaths - despite the similarities. That might have been the end of the matter. But when two coroner's officers began to piece together the evidence, it revealed a pattern which may prove the existence of a sadistic attacker known as 'the silver killer'. Using interviews with dozens of witnesses, including police investigators, forensic and crime scene experts, coroner's officers and family members, the author pieces together the clues in an attempt to solve the mystery of what really happened. A gripping true-crime investigation, the book reveals how suspicions were aroused and set investigators on a new trail to uncover the truth. Collins, whose reporting helped the police to convict the serial killer Levi Bellfield of killing Milly Dowler, has written a brilliant account of a crime that nearly went undiscovered which is sure to become a classic of the genre.

David Collins (Author), Nick Biadon (Narrator)

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Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist's long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell Cleveland, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and investigates Jorell's tragic fatal shooting. In 2005, soon after Ben Westhoff moved to St. Louis, he joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and was paired with Jorell Cleveland. Ben was twenty-eight, a white college grad from an affluent family. Jorell was eight, one of nine children from a poor, African American family living in nearby Ferguson. But the two instantly connected. Ben and Jorell formed a bond stronger than nearly any other in their lives. When Ben met the woman who'd become his wife, she observed that Ben and Jorell were "a package deal." They were brothers. In the summer of 2016, Jorell was shot at point blank range in broad daylight in the middle of the street, yet no one was charged in his death. Ben grappled with mourning Jorell, but also with a feeling of responsibility. As Jorell's mentor, what could he have done differently? As a journalist, he had reported on gang life, interviewed crime kingpins, and even infiltrated drug labs in China. But now, he was investigating the life and death of someone he knew personally and examining what he did and did not know about his friend. Learning the truth about Jorell and the man who killed him required Ben to uncover a heartbreaking cycle of poverty, poor education, drug trafficking, and violence. Little Brother brilliantly combines a deeply personal history with a true-crime narrative that exposes the realities of life in communities like Ferguson all around the country.

Ben Westhoff (Author), Ben Westhoff, Dan Bittner (Narrator)

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The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti—and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether. John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history. He became the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashion—with the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan in 1985. Not one to stay below law enforcement's radar, Gotti instead became the first celebrity crime boss. His penchant for eye-catching apparel earned him the nickname "The Dapper Don;" his ability to beat criminal charges led to another: "The Teflon Don." This is the captivating story of Gotti's meteoric rise to power and his equally dramatic downfall. Every step of the way, Gotti's legal adversary—John Gleeson, an Assistant US Attorney in Brooklyn—was watching. When Gotti finally faced two federal racketeering prosecutions, Gleeson prosecuted both. As the junior lawyer in the first case—a bitter seven-month battle that ended in Gotti's acquittal—Gleeson found himself in Gotti's crosshairs, falsely accused of serious crimes by a defense witness Gotti intimidated into committing perjury. Five years later, Gleeson was in charge of the second racketeering investigation and trial. Armed with the FBI's secret recordings of Gotti's conversations with his underboss and consigliere in the apartment above Gotti's Little Italy hangout, Gleeson indicted all three. He "flipped" underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano, killer of nineteen men, who became history's highest-ranking mob turncoat—resulting in Gotti's murder conviction. Gleeson ended not just Gotti's reign, but eventually that of the entire mob. An epic, page-turning courtroom drama, The Gotti Wars is a brilliantly told crime story that illuminates a time in our nation's history when lawyers and mobsters dominated the news, but it's also the story of a tenacious young man, in the glare of the media spotlight, who mastered the art of becoming a great attorney.

John Gleeson (Author), Adam Grupper (Narrator)

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Periodismo escrito con sangre (Colección Estampas de un sexenio fallido): Antología periodística: Te

Periodismo escrito con sangre es un homenaje al periodista ejecutado por decir la verdad, por dar voz a los desposeídos, a quienes tienen en el rostro la herida viva, ardiente, ocasionada por el crimen organizado y la indiferencia o complicidad de las autoridades. Selección, prólogo y notas: César Ramos. El 15 de mayo de 2017 fue asesinado en Culiacán el periodista Javier Valdez Cárdenas, autor de una serie de libros excepcionales para entender el fenómeno del narco y el voraz crecimiento de la delincuencia organizada en México. Periodista valiente y puntual, crítico hasta el extremo con la realidad de nuestro país, su trabajo logró reconocimiento internacional y, sobre todo, por una pluma vibrante, conmovedora, profundamente humana. Se recogen en este libro trabajos de sus libros Miss Narco, Los morros del narco, Levantones, Con una granada enla boca, Huérfanos del narco y Narcoperiodismo. Hay un denominador común en las crónicas, investigaciones y reportajes de Valdez Cárdenas: su acercamiento intenso al ser humano, a las madres muertas en vida por no saber de sus hijos; al adicto que mira derrumbarse toda ilusión en un escenario de violencia impasible; a la víctima del levantón, del ejercicio terrible del sicario; al policía baleado; al niño despojado de toda esperanza en una casa donde se come desgracia; a las jóvenes que cambiaron la ilusión por el infierno del narco, el glamour por la ejecución feroz en un baldío. Queda claro que Javier Valdez Cárdenas vive ahora en sus escritos y justo, imprescindible, es leer su trabajo periodístico porque esa voz no será apagada jamás por ningún balazo.

Javier Valdez Cárdenas (Author), Fernando álvarez Rebeil (Narrator)

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