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.Homicide: a Year on the Killing Streets
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by: David Simon

March 31, 1993
How do you fill the void left after watching the final episode of one of the greatest tv shows of all time ? Go back to the source and that's what this is without this book there is no The Wire. It's a remarkable book and one that hasn't really dated unlike the TV series of the same name.
The premise is well described David Simon writes about a year in the life of the homicide department of Baltimore what suprised me was that it isn't written for the journalist point of view so instead we get informed what the detectives are thinking. It's hard to explain that for the veteran detectives we see that there is no personal crusade to solve the crimes it's a job and not a highly paid one so if it's not the money what compels these individuals ... Read More:
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.The Devil: Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman
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by: Graham Johnson

August 02, 2007
Graham Johnson writes this book from the perpective of the man who the book is based on - Stephen French. Having met with Stephen and done hundreds of hours of interviews the book totaly feels like its being written from the man himself. The author writes the story from Stephens perspective to give a closer feeling to the the personal stories of his life as if hes telling them. The book has so many stories to tell of extrmely dangerous conflict situations between rival gangs, feuds with fellow crew members and the author does not hold back. The author says in the first few pages how he really wanted to get the reader a feeling of Stephens perspective. I really felt you got a very strong sense of the man from this book and read it in 2 days. This ... Read More:
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.Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences)
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by: Michel Foucault

April 25, 1991
If you are interested about justice, sociology and society you should some day read this excellent story of how control over people has changed within last five hundred years. Perhaps mr Foucault was inspired by Orwell's 1984 and turned it to be scientifically consistent theory or control. Great thing is that you don't need to be scientist to understand about this book which means that it must have been hard work to make the text sound as easily to comprehend.

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.Pure Evil
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by: Maureen Harvey

May 05, 2008
This book is full of typos and bad grammar, but more that that, it is full of lies. It was my dearest friend whose daughter heard all the screaming in the road and at whose house Tracie Andrews turned up and spun her lies. It was my friend, who is ex-police, that alerted the police officers to the knife shaped blood stain on Andrew's leg. She also said that Tracie had been badly beaten up (so much for the "gentle" son Harvey tries to depict). My friend is a solicitor and said that Andrews would have got a much lighter sentence if she'd admitted it was a domestic row that got out of hand. What she and I will never forgive Maureen Harvey for is revealing my friend's daughters' name. She is still on a protected list of witness and Harvey has blown it. Apart ... Read More:
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.The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
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by: Kate Summerscale

April 07, 2008
This book exists of three interwoven strands: a recounting of a murder, a social history of the period that the murder occured, and discussions of contemporary crime fiction.

The first strand worked fine, and I appreciate the necessity of the second, but the detours into the contemporary crime fiction completely ruined the rhythm of the book for me. Where I had been hooked, I found my mind wandering, hoping the book would get back on track in as short a time as possible.

The prose was also, at times, rather too flowery for my liking.

I would have enjoyed the book more if it were a straight account of the murder which, it must be said, the author has researched very well.
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.Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose of the British Drugs Scene
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by: Bernard O'Mahoney

April 03, 2000
Poor book , well researched but thats all it is , research.
Not as in-depth as what the other "real" key members of the Essex boys have written. Not the best book on the subject imo. Best taken with a pinch of salt.


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.The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
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by: Philip Carlo

March 06, 2008
in one word brilliant. amazing insight into what makes a killer, a must read for any true crime fan!
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.Essex Boys, The New Generation
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by: Bernard O'Mahoney

May 01, 2008
in one word brilliant. amazing insight into what makes a killer, a must read for any true crime fan!
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.In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
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by: Frank Kane, John Tilsley

October 04, 2007
Good Lord what a book it does not happen very often and i often 'force read' a lot of books but this was brilliant & i could not put it down xxx
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.The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
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by: Tom Wolfe

February 17, 1989
Ken Keysey is a myth in his own time. The author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, the guru of LSD culture as the more gritty and real reflection of Timothy Leary (or I should rather say Leary was Keysey's reflection).

Given this, it is only right that he should be the central subject of a book written about this culture and time, which is in essence what the Electric Kool-aid Acid Test is.

This account describes the rise and fall of LSD culture from the early 1960s. Tom Wolfe, a prominent journalist of the time documents Keyseys journey from his early involvement in official LSD experiments and his establishment of an LSD community whose primary aim was to seek enlightenment using LSD as a tool, to Keysey's ultimate rejection of LSD.

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