True stories books

This is the true and gripping story of one of the first and one of the best undercover agents to work against the...  Read More >>

The story of a year spent by biographer Anthony Holden in the world of the professional poker player. Poker, Holden...  Read More >>

This is a dramatic, revealing true business story centered on the greedy international tycoons who declared war...  Read More >>

FBI profiler Roy Hazlewood spent two decades studying sexual sadists, serial rapists, child molesters and serial...  Read More >>

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The adrenalin-pumping, heart-yammering true story of Project Rapid Fire.  Read More >>

A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused...  Read More >>

Featuring superb writing drawn from the best fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, ""Gangs"" paints a visceral and...  Read More >>

VICTORIAN criminals often got away with murder. The police often made mistakes, forensic science was in its infancy...  Read More >>

The most notorious British women of all time, from Lady Godiva to Rosemary West. Radicals, criminals, killers and...  Read More >>

Angelina Jaramillo, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prominent New Mexico family, was raped, bludgeoned, and...  Read More >>

Seventeen true stories of aircrew fighting near impossible odds to bring their crippled aircraft back to earth....  Read More >>

From the prize-winning investigative reporter who has had the inside track on the story since it first broke in...  Read More >>

Codebreaker in the Far East describes how Bletchley Park and its...  Read More >>

Captain Frederick Burnaby's secret unofficial mission was to discover if the caravan city of Khiva, closed to all...  Read More >>

On 30 August 1898, a sixty-year-old widower was murdered in his single-roomed home in a quiet town-land in north-west...  Read More >>

Two ancient Chinese political classics, The Art of War and The Book of Lord Shang, written during a time of turmoil,...  Read More >>

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Following Looking into Hell, published in 1995, Mel Rolfe has researched another twenty stories of gallantry in...  Read More >>

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two...  Read More >>

This book is about a man who was falsely accused of a sex crime. This book is based on a true story.  Read More >>

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This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas. Moncrief...  Read More >>

Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. Betrayed...  Read More >>