More than 600 biographies of notorious personages, from the merely controversial to extremely negative, from ancient times to the present and worldwide, with emphasis on their roles in historical events or impact on law enforcement or popular culture.
A group of fourteen-year-old boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences.
A group of fourteen-year-old boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences.
Con artists Kidd and Luellen target the small town of Longstreet, Mississippi, at the request of an African American rights activist, to get the mayor to resign, and their plan seems perfect until murder, scandal, and love get in the way.
Harry Bosch is soon approaching a forced retirement from the LAPD when he finds himself investigating a rape case from 1989 and a possible murder case.
bubble machines, vampire squids, and the long con that is breaking America
Taibbi, Matt
2010
An investigation of financial, political, and media power in the United States, looking at what the author sees as a complete transfer of control in the first decade of the twenty-first century from a democracy to the self-interested elite.
Willie Stark, a well-intentioned idealistic back-country lawyer, is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.
