True Crime

Growing up in a household that seemed ''as generic as midwestern Jews get,'' Eric Konigsberg never imagined there was anything remotely mysterious about his family—until he learned from an ex-cop groundskeeper that his great-uncle Harold ''Kayo'' Konigsberg had been a legendary Mafia enforcer, suspected by the F.B.I. of upwards of twenty murders. In Blood Relation , Eric Konigsberg unspools the lurid rise and protracted flight from justice of his notorious ''Uncle Heshy,'' revealing Kayo as a fascinating, paradoxical character: a cold-blooded killer and larger-than-life con artist, both brutal and seductive. In the process, the author investigates Kayo's impact on his family and others who crossed his path, brilliantly interweaving themes of Jewish identity, family dynamics, justice, and postwar American history. more...

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“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” — Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. more...

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A grittily compelling look at a series of brutal murders that took place in Sydney's eastern beachside suburbs in the 1980s - this is the extraordinary story of the crimes, the victims, the gangs and the policeman who refused to close the case. more...

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This account of the Mafia's infiltration of Wall Street uses as its chief source a fast-talking Staten Island kid named Louis Pasciuto who, from age l9-25, moved stocks for l7 different brokerage houses-most of that time without even a fake license. Louis was the consummate liar, selling overpriced and phantom stocks to naive Americans and leading a lifestyle worthy of Caligula. To avoid a long prison sentence, he ultimately became a witness for the state. Among the book's scenes: morning pep rallies filled with Dr. Seuss poetry and 'Rocky' theme music; tie-'em-up-in-knots cold-call sessions that netted for each hood-broker as much as $500,000 per month; 36-hour cocaine binges; orgies; and tussles with Mafia thugs toting Mac l0 machine pistols. more...

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A fast-paced history of Colonial Sydney that tells the extraordinary story of the country's largest ever bank robbery and the people caught up in its wake - from the author of An Irresistible Temptation . more...

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