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Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio
Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Traversing through rain forests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country's journey into the global spotlight, and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs, and poverty.
Chantal Fernando, Misha Glenny (Author), Bridget Haight, Zach Villa (Narrator)
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Never Enough: The Shocking True Story of Greed, Murder, and a Family Torn Apart
At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife, three young children, and what a friend described as “the best marriage in the universe.” That marriage—to investment banker Robert Kissel—ended one November night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong’s glittering Victoria Harbour when Robert was murdered and Nancy became the prime suspect. Her 2005 trial captivated Hong Kong’s expatriate community and attracted global attention. Less than a year after the jury returned its unexpected verdict, Rob’s brother, Andrew, was also found dead, stabbed in the back at his multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion. Never Enough is the harrowing true story of two brothers, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart, and of Nancy Kissel, a modern American woman for whom having it all might not have been enough. “It’s riveting and compulsively readable...McGinniss patiently unravels the case with plenty of fresh reporting.”--Entertainment Weekly
Joe McGinniss (Author), Michael McConnohie (Narrator)
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Consumed these past twenty years by a "biblical holocaust," Colombia has endured leftist insurgencies, right-wing death squads, currency collapses, cholera epidemics, and, most recently and corrosively, drug trafficking. Returning to his days as a reporter for El Espectador, Gabriel García Márquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in late 1990 when Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin cartel. Ten men and women were abducted by Escobar's henchmen and used as bargaining chips against extradition to the United States. From the testimonies and diaries of the survivors, García Márquez reconstructs their bizarre ordeal with cinematic intensity, breathtaking language, and rigor. We are drawn into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great García Márquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.
Gabriel García Márquez (Author), Christopher Salazar (Narrator)
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From Matthew Lysiak, the reporter who received national recognition for his coverage of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, comes the definitive account of the Newtown tragedy. 12/14/2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut We remember the numbers: 20 children and 6 adults, murdered in a place of nurture and trust. We remember the names: teachers like Victoria Soto, who lost her life protecting her students. A shooter named Adam Lanza. And we remember the questions: outraged conjecture instantly monopolized the worldwide response to the tragedy, while the truth went missing. Here is the definitive journalistic account of Newtown, an essential examination of the facts-not only of that horrific day but the perfect storm of mental instability and obsession that preceded it and, in the aftermath of unspeakable heartbreak, the controversy that continues to play out on the national stage. Drawn from previously undisclosed emails, police reports, and in-depth interviews, Newtown: An American Tragedy breaks through a miasma of misinformation with its comprehensive and astonishing portrayal. This is the vital story that must be told today if we are to prevent another American tragedy in the days to come. A portion of the proceeds from this audiobook will be donated to the Avielle Foundation.
Matthew Lysiak (Author), Adam Verner (Narrator)
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UNA HISTORIA REAL DE CRIMEN Y MEMORIA EN IRLANDA DEL NORTE Mejor libro del año 2019 según The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times y Time Magazine GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD GANADOR DEL PREMIO ORWELL FINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD En diciembre de 1972, varios encapuchados secuestraron a Jean McConville, una viuda de treinta y ocho años con diez hijos a su cargo. Nadie dudó, en aquel barrio católico de Belfast, que se trataba de una represalia del IRA. Sin embargo, el crimen no empezó a resolverse hasta 2003, cinco años después de los acuerdos de paz del Viernes Santo, al ser desenterrados los restos mortales de McConville en una playa solitaria. Cuando Patrick Radden Keefe se propuso investigar las ramificaciones de este caso, ignoraba que terminaría escribiendo una crónica total sobre el conflicto norirlandés que ha sido aclamada de manera unánime. Entrevistándose con decenas de testimonios, muchos de los cuales nunca antes habían dado su versión, retrata la profesionalización de las milicias republicanas, la represión del Estado británico, la escalada de violencia y, sobre todo, la evolución ideológica de algunos de sus protagonistas. Por ejemplo, la de Dolours Price, que se enroló en el IRA a temprana edad y estuvo implicada, entre otros atentados, en la ejecución de Jean McConville. Enmarcado en la mejor tradición del periodismo narrativo y la no ficción literaria, No digas nada es un libro que aúna historia, política y biografía, y que sondea las dimensiones morales de un conflicto que, medio siglo después, todavía levanta ampollas. Opiniones sobre el libro... «Lo he leído con pasión y no sin un horror que en España también conocemos bastante bien. Sin duda, un gran libro.» Javier Marías «No digas nada es el mejor libro sobre Irlanda del Norte del que tengo conocimiento. Son tantos los horrores reales que contiene que parecerá inapropiado expresarlo así, pero se lee como una novela de suspense, si bien elabora a su vez un retrato muy completo de la tragedia que supusieron aquellos años de guerra tribal en cierto rincón olvidado de Europa. Una tenebrosa obra maestra.» John Banville «Un libro que retrata de manera absorbente el conflicto de Irlanda del Norte y que es, a partes iguales, un true crime, una crónica histórica y una tragedia. Keefe ejerce el periodismo más incisivo y pone de manifiesto los terribles costes que tuvo el conflicto y cómo este sigue latiendo hoy en día. Una lectura obligatoria.» Gillian Flynn «Una investigación meticulosa, escrita con exquisitez y narrada de manera apasionante. No digas nada es una obra llena de revelaciones. Keefe no solo destapa, paso a paso, la verdad sobre uno de los crímenes más importantes y misteriosos delterrible conflicto de Irlanda del Norte; también excava en la historia de una época y aporta luz a sus repercusiones actuales.» David Grann «Me fascinó, es el mejor libro que he leído en bastante tiempo.» Guillermo Altares «Un hito de la arquitectura narrativa: equilibrado y hábilmente construido a partir de materiales muy complejos y delicados.» The New York Times «Una obra descomunal [...] Gracias a su mirada fresca, Keefe ha sabido plasmar por qué el asesinato de Jean McConville es una historia universal y eterna, y por qué aquella víctima, tantos años después de haber sido arrojada a una fosa solitaria en una playa de Co Louth, sigue pesando en la conciencia colectiva del pueblo irlandés.» The Irish Times «El gran logro de Patrick Radden Keefe es contar los cincuenta años de conflicto norirlandés a través de sus historias personales: se convierte en una explicación fascinante y profundamente humana de un pasado que todavíaniega y pretende definir nuestro futuro. Es imposible elogiar más este libro: minucioso, asequible, emotivo, revelador.» The Times «Un libro nuevo y excepcional que, a través de sus paisajes rotos, nos conduce a devastadoras revelaciones.» The Wall Street Journal «Saber qué fue de Jean McConville e investigar quiénes fueron responsables de su muerte ya convierte a No digas nada en un trabajo sobresaliente. Pero es un libro que va mucho más allá. Es una indagación candente acerca de la naturaleza de la verdad en tiempos de guerra, bajo el peso de la violencia y el engaño. El resultado es una obra que se cuenta entre los mejores libros jamás escritos sobre el conflicto de Irlanda del Norte.» Sunday Times «Investigando la desaparición de una madre, el autor destapa la violencia de todo un pasado cuya crudeza sigue en vigor. El libro se puede leer como una novela, pero quienes conozcan las piezas de Keefe para The New Yorker sabrán que este reportero e investigador insistente es un maestro de la narrativa de no ficción. No digas nada es una historia increíble.» Rolling Stone «Una historia desgarradora y criminal que no podría estar mejor escrita.» Kirkus Reviews «Basándose en una investigación meticulosa, Keefe ha escrito un libro que tiene el ritmo de una novela. Al entrevistar a gente que estuvo en los dos bandos del conflicto, transforma la trágica devastación que caracterizó a la época en una penetrante saga de personajes con una gran carga emocional.» New York Times Book Review
Patrick Radden Keefe (Author), Jordi Salas (Narrator)
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No Handcuffs: The Final Word on My War with The Krays
Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of violent criminality grabs you by the throat. The Richardson brothers, Eddie and Charlie, and their infamous 'Torture Gang', made money while their rivals Ronnie and Reggie Kray made fatal mischief. They fought each other, but now, in 2018, Eddie Richardson says: 'They tell me blood is thicker than water, but with Charlie it wasn't so. He was evil.' With his brother dead, Eddie Richardson feels free to detail the story of a vicious family feud that provoked extravagant acrimony. No Handcuffs unravels the mysteries of decades of crime and political incident. The story of a turbulent era, it rivals the most imaginative fiction in its portrayal of gangland life with all its chanciness and rawness and careless disregard for any obstacle on the way to its target, the big money. In an inspired collaboration with bestselling author Douglas Thompson, the mature Eddie Richardson is given a voice to reflect on his journey from the scrapyards of South London to the glitz and glamour of the West End nightclubs, to the flesh and tease of Soho, down Downing Street and through the door of Number 10 to the perils of espionage and international intrigue, and his elevation to demigod status in hard-men territory - and finally as a high-security inmate at Her Majesty's pleasure, but with a personal fridge kept well stocked with gourmet food. No Handcuffs resonates today for, if anything, greed and corruption are more perverse, more rampant. As Eddie Richardson points out: 'We wrote the handbook for them.'
Eddie Richardson (Author), Eddie Richardson, Karl Jenkinson (Narrator)
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A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed into the soaring West Seattle Bridge, causing millions in damages; and following his inexplicable disappearance at age 80. Was he a suicide, a man broken by one costly misstep? Had he run off with a lifelong love? Or did a trail of gruesome evidence lead to the home Rolf shared with his wife, Ruth? On an island where everyone thought they knew their neighbors, the veneer of the Neslunds' marriage masked a convoluted case that took many years to solve. And, indeed, some still believe that the old sea captain will come home one day. "The Sea Captain" is a classic tale as blood chilling as murder itself. Along with six other equally riveting, detailed accounts of destruction and murder committed without conscience or regret, Ann Rule takes readers into frightening places they never could have imagined in No Regrets.
Ann Rule (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator)
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The true story of John Battaglia-the coldhearted father who executed his two young daughters to spite his ex-wife. Dallas antiques dealer Mary Jean Pearle had a bitter history with her ex-husband, John David Battaglia, a former Marine and successful accountant-but even after the abuse she endured from him, she never thought he would go after their daughters, Faith and Liberty. That is until she listened helplessly over the phone as Faith made a heartrending plea for her life-which was followed by gunshots. In this updated account of Battaglia's unthinkable crime-an act of filicide that was featured on 20/20 and would ultimately lead Texas to carry out the death sentence-Irene Pence recounts an unforgettable saga of violence, betrayal, and a mother's worst nightmare. Contains mature themes.
Irene Pence (Author), Coleen Marlo (Narrator)
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Noir Afloat: Tony Cornero and the Notorious Gambling Ships of Southern California
Prohibition. Mobsters, murder, and mayhem. FBI agents. Cops, robbers, and worse. Sound like the background for a Hollywood epic? It's Ernest Marquez's latest very true story of the renowned gambling ships that anchored in Santa Monica Bay in the 1920s and 1930s. It's the story of Tony Cornero, the cockiest gangster who ever bootlegged a bottle of scotch, the man who helped found Las Vegas, and the smooth operator of the most glamorous gambling ship in the Pacific, the Rex. Cornero's story is filled with every tantalizing tidbit of the era. The law's conquest of Cornero and the gambling ships helped to jump-start the career of Earl Warren from California attorney general to governor to Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Glitz, gangsters, and under-the-table politics-it's all here in the book that represents thirty years of research by best-selling Southern California author Ernest Marquez, whose unparalleled collection of images and memorabilia is showcased in Noir Afloat.
Ernest Marquez (Author), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Narrator)
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Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth
The true story of the most notorious crime in American nautical history -- a uniquely grotesque triple murder -- and the long journey to truth. The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain and owner Charles Nash, his wife and childhood sweetheart Laura, two mates, the 'mulatto' steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings . . . except the killer. After a harrowing voyage back to port for the survivors, the killer among them, it didn't take long for Boston's legal system to convict the first mate, a naturalized American of mixed blood from St. Kitts. But another man on board, a twenty-year-old Harvard passenger from a proper family, had his own dark secrets. Who was the real killer, and what became of these two men? Not a Gentleman's Work is the story of the fates of two vastly different men whose lives intersected briefly on one horrific voyage at sea -- a story that reverberates with universal themes: inescapable terror, coerced confession, capital punishment, justice obscured by privilege, perseverance, redemption, and death by tortured soul.
Gerard Koeppel (Author), Daniel Thomas May (Narrator)
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Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival
Not Lost Forever is Carmina Salcido's remarkable story of survival and healing following the 1986 murderous rampage by her father, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido in the wine country of Sonoma Valley, California. Left for dead at three years old-her throat brutally slashed-Carmina miraculously survived what is widely considered one of California's most notorious crimes: the unthinkable attack that savagely destroyed seven innocent lives, including Carmina's entire family. At once a harrowing true crime story and the inspirational first-person account of a young girl's strength, heart, and determination in the nightmare's aftermath, Not Lost Forever is a shocking and profoundly moving tale of perseverance and hope, and of a precious life regained.
Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson (Author), Xe Sands (Narrator)
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Notes on a Killing: Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town
Their friendship would kill her…Weaver and fiber artist Edith "Pen" Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt's relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken.Pen was never seen again.One man stood to gain from Pen's disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no blood, no DNA, no body. Until detectives found notes hidden beneath a leather chair that turned out to be a playbook for murder…
Kevin Flynn, Rebecca Lavoie (Author), Aven Shore (Narrator)
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