Cartel Wives
Mia FloresRRP: £8.99
An astonishing and revelatory memoir by two women who escaped the glamorous yet deadly international drug trade.Mia Flores and Olivia Flores live under assumed names. To their neighbours, they are typ …
Genre: True Crime
A Forger's Tale
Shaun GreenhalghRRP: £10.99
Observer’s Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of …
Smuggler
Richard StrattonRRP: £12.99
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run s …
Wolf Boys
Dan SlaterRRP: £10.99
A chilling true story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by an increasingly disillusioned detective.At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary Ame …
Evil Life
Clive SmallRRP: £14.99
The Calabrian mafia is Australia’s oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networ …
Dancing With a Cocaine Cowboy
Robyn WindshuttleRRP: £12.99
This is the extraordinary story of a free-spirited girl from Sydney’s northern beaches who was catapulted into the middle of a European cocaine ring on her first day in Paris. A dancer with the Moulin …
Outlaws
Adam ShandRRP: £9.99
What’s it like to be an outlaw biker? ‘We’re dickhead magnets,’ one of them tells Adam Shand. ‘Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.’Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling …
The Good Nurse
Charles GraeberRRP: £9.99
NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND JESSICA CHASTAIN’A stunning book… should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood’ New York TimesAfter his arrest in 2003, registered nurse Charlie Cullen …
Every Parent's Nightmare
Belinda HawkinsRRP: £12.99
Jock Palfreeman is a young Australian in jail in Sofia, Bulgaria, found guilty of the murder of Andrei Monov, the only son of two people well connected in Sofia’s legal fraternity. Jock claims he went …
Deception
Charles MirandaRRP: £9.99
He was a ‘crooked hat’, a bent copper, and he was working with a notorious Dutch crime cartel to flood Australia with millions of dollars’ worth of drugs. To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a sta …
Life After Death
Damien EcholsRRP: £20.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CWA NON-FICTION DAGGERAn instant New York Times bestseller, Life After Death is an agonizing first-hand account of an innocent man living on Death Row. It is destined to be an …
Above the Law
Ross Coulthart and Duncan McNabRRP: £8.99
One of the astonishing revelations in Dead Man Running was the difficulty faced by the Australian police in tackling the burgeoning crime empire that outlaw motorcycle gangs were developing. The news …
The Honoured Society
Petra ReskiRRP: £9.99
In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and …
Smack Express
Clive SmallRRP: £7.99
Corruption, drugs and organised crime in Australia.From Robert Trimbole’s dominance of the cannabis trade in the 70s and Sydney’s gang wars in the 80s, to the rise of Cabramatta as the heroin capital …
The Art of Political Murder
Francisco GoldmanRRP: £9.99
Winner of the T. R. Fyvel Book Award 2008 (Index on Censorship Awards)Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2009 On a Sunday night in 1998, …
American Gangster
Mark JacobsonRRP: £8.99
The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York’s most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.In 1970s New …
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