Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun-until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader,...

Al Capone had delayed the start of his imprisonment by over a year with numerous appeals which his lawyers knew to have no merit. This was so that Frank Nitti, who was finishing up his prison sentence for income tax evasion, could be released and able to assume control of the Outfit. However, in many ways Nitti was little more than a figurehead, with Paul Ricca and Tony Accardo able to override his decisions at will. They made the strategy, leaving...

The "Dust Bowl" of the early 1930s spawned the era of the Mid-West bank robbers. Gangs led by Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and "Baby Face" Nelson became the stuff of American legend. None of them was spectacularly successful at bank robbing and all of them came to bad ends, being shot down in the end by the law. The "Dust Bowl" bank robbers personified the anti-hero who gave the banks a taste of their own medicine and the public...

"Self-published in 1918, The Mother of the Hoboes is an extremely rare book about the life of train vagabonds culled from the personal experiences of A-No. 1, "the famous tramp." This is a dazzling and wild window into an underground culture that has largely vanished -- although some of the adventures may feel familiar to contemporary train hoppers, squatters and zinesters. Includes many illustrations. Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author,...

The "Dust Bowl" of the early 1930s spawned the era of the Mid-West bank robbers. Gangs led by Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and "Baby Face" Nelson became the stuff of American legend. None of them was spectacularly successful at bank robbing and all of them came to bad ends, eventually being shot down by the law. They all, however, caught the public imagination and were the anti-hero's of their day. This was the era of the Great...

The "Dust Bowl" of the early 1930s spawned the era of the Mid-West bank robbers. Gangs led by Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and "Baby Face" Nelson became the stuff of American legend. None of them was spectacularly successful at bank robbing and all of them came to bad ends, being shot down in the end by the law. They all, however, caught the public imagination and were the anti-hero's of their day. This was the era of the Great...

This book deals primarily with the Al Capone Era in Chicago. Technically this would cover a six-year, eight-month period of time from when Johnny Torrio was shot by "Bugs" Moran in January 24, 1925 to October 24, 1931, when Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion. However, the book will go back a bit earlier, when Johnny Torrio first brought Capone to Chicago from New York and follow through to Capone's time in prison,...

Katherine Ferrers is known as the Wicked Lady, a female highwayman who terrorised the local countryside in the middle of the seventeenth century. One night she was mortally wounded but managed to ride back to her home, Markyate Cell, where she died. Her servants took her body to be buried at St Marys Church, Ware but her ghost can still be seen riding a black horse over the countryside where she once committed her crimes. This is the legend that has...

Bartender Jack Hannon's August 1949 murder in Rockaway Beach was a violent event that remained unsolved at the end of the year. Law enforcement believed that Hannon's assassin used a German luger P-38. Multiple witnesses looked on as the barkeep was shot three times in the head. Hannon died in the street near 100-25 St. Marks Avenue. The killer quickly jumped back into a '49 Kaiser which eluded a bus driver who attempted to pursue it in traffic. According...

From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Murder of the Banker's Daughter and Murder at the Pencil Factory comes a powerful new historical true crime short, The "Gold Special" Train Robbery: Deadly Crimes of the D'Autremont Brothers. On Thursday night October 11, 1923, the Southern Pacific Railroad Express Train Number 13, called the "Gold Special," was ambushed as it headed through the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern...