True Crime, Drugs & Jail

True Crime, Drugs & Jail
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SEE NAPLES AND DIE Penelope Green - The crimes and passions of Italy's darkest jewel See photos & details
SEE NAPLES AND DIE Penelope Green - The crimes and passions of Italy's darkest jewel
From the author of "When in Rome."
Price: AUD $5.00
SEIZED Max Hardberger - A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates & Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Trouble Waters (Worldwide) See photos & details
SEIZED Max Hardberger - A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates & Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Trouble Waters (Worldwide)
SEIZED looks like a cracker of a read. Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok.
Price: AUD $9.00
SENOR NICE Straight life from Wales to South America by Howards Marks See photos & details
SENOR NICE Straight life from Wales to South America by Howards Marks
A great travel book by the author of the the uber popular Mr Nice. This is a used travel book in very good condition: nice and clean with little wear, ageing lightly, a slight price sticker tear on the first page. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
SHANTARAM Gregory David Roberts - A Novel (India) See photos & details
SHANTARAM Gregory David Roberts - A Novel (India)
Shantaram is a novel based on the author's life, escaping an Australian jail then living in the slums of India, very popular and highly recommended.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE BOLIVIAN TIMES Tim Elliot - A Very Funny True Story of Tear Gas, Heartbreak, Bad Spanish, Cocaine and Deadlines (Bolivia South America) See photos & details
THE BOLIVIAN TIMES Tim Elliot - A Very Funny True Story of Tear Gas, Heartbreak, Bad Spanish, Cocaine and Deadlines (Bolivia South America)
THE BOLIVIAN TIMES: A hard-to-find cult classic travel book.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE BONE WOMAN Clea Koff - A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth In The Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo See photos & details
THE BONE WOMAN Clea Koff - A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth In The Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
The Bone Woman is a popular book, an account of Clea Koff's forensic work after the genocides of Rwanda, Bonsia, Croatia and Kosovo.
Price: AUD $9.00
THE BURNING SEASON Andrew Rivkin - The Murder of Chico Mandes and the Fight For the Amazon Rain Forest (Brazil / South America) See photos & details
THE BURNING SEASON Andrew Rivkin - The Murder of Chico Mandes and the Fight For the Amazon Rain Forest (Brazil / South America)
THE BURNING SEASON: a biography of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper and homegrown environmentalist who was killed in December 1988 by ranchers intent on ravaging the jungle for short term gain. It is also a celebration of the beauty of the rain forest and a plea for its preservation.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE CULT AT THE END OF THE WORLD The Incredible Story of Aum by David E Kaplan & Andrew Marshall See photos & details
THE CULT AT THE END OF THE WORLD The Incredible Story of Aum by David E Kaplan & Andrew Marshall
A hard-to-find book on the Aum cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin gas atttacks. This is an ex-library paperback: pages are clean and lightly, cover is a bit worn and creased. Has been read several times. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
THE DAMAGE DONE Warren Fellows - Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison (Thailand) See photos & details
THE DAMAGE DONE Warren Fellows - Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison (Thailand)
THE DAMAGE DONE: An amazing read, highly recommended, Warren Fellows was jailed in Thailand for drug trafficking.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE ENGLISH PRISONER Tig Hague - The Gripping True Story of One Man's Survival Inside a Russian Prison Camp (Russia) See photos & details
THE ENGLISH PRISONER Tig Hague - The Gripping True Story of One Man's Survival Inside a Russian Prison Camp (Russia)
Englishman Tim Hague was arrested in Moscow Airport and spent four years in a remote Russian Jail.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE FRUIT PALACE Charles Nicholl (Columbia - South America) See photos & details
THE FRUIT PALACE Charles Nicholl (Columbia - South America)
The Fruit Palace records journalist Charles Nicholl's adventures on the trail of “The Great Cocaine Story” in Colombia. It follows him from the seedy backstreet bars of Bogota to fashionable beach resorts. People he meets include the fixers, smugglers, cooks, mules, the corner boys and the streetgirls.
Price: AUD $5.50
THE GREY MAN John Curtis - My Undercover War Against the Child Sex Trade in Asia (Thailand / Cambodia) - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY See photos & details
THE GREY MAN John Curtis - My Undercover War Against the Child Sex Trade in Asia (Thailand / Cambodia) - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
The Grey Man is a scarce memoir by John Curtis who fights the Asian child sex trade and rescues victims. NB: this is an uncorrected proof copy, it may possibly have errors.
Price: AUD $5.00
THE KILLING OF SISTER McCORMACK by Anne Henderson See photos & details
THE KILLING OF SISTER McCORMACK by Anne Henderson
The true story of an Australian nurse executed by the Shining Path terrorist group in Peru. This is a used book in very good condition: nice clean white pages, light reading wear. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $5.00
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SOBHRAJ by Richard Neville and Julie Clarke (Thailand) See photos & details
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SOBHRAJ by Richard Neville and Julie Clarke (Thailand)
A scarce and classic true crime \ travel book. The story of Charles Sobhraj, a charismatic and dangerous young man who, during the 1960s and 70s, murdered a number of young backpackers while running a gem business in Bangkok,
Price: AUD $10.00
THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE Douglas Preston With Mario Spezi - A True Story (Italy) See photos & details
THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE Douglas Preston With Mario Spezi - A True Story (Italy)
The Monster of Florence is a true crime book about a serial killer who murdered fifteen young lovers n Florence, Italy.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS Greg Clancy - The People Smuggling Industry and the Secret Cost to Australia See photos & details
THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS Greg Clancy - The People Smuggling Industry and the Secret Cost to Australia
THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS: the unspoken perils of people smuggling.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE SHORE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Hideyuki Takano - A Report From Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom See photos & details
THE SHORE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Hideyuki Takano - A Report From Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom
The Shore Beyond Good and Evil looks like a fascinating looking read: author and adventurer Hideyuki Takano spends seven months in a mountain village for the complete cycle of opium production.
Price: AUD $15.00
TOKYO VICE Jake Adelstein - A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan See photos & details
TOKYO VICE Jake Adelstein - A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
This looks like an amazing read, a 'revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up'.
Price: AUD $10.00
TOURIST TRAP Patrick Blackden - When Holiday Turns To Nighmare (Travel True Crime Stories) See photos & details
TOURIST TRAP Patrick Blackden - When Holiday Turns To Nighmare (Travel True Crime Stories)
A book of holiday horror true crime stories.
Price: AUD $8.00
VEERAPPAN India's Most Wanted Man by Sunaad Raghuram See photos & details
VEERAPPAN India's Most Wanted Man by Sunaad Raghuram
A scarce biography of a famous Indian criminal. Book is in good condition with nice clean pages, a little wear to dust jacket. Price marked on bottom edge. See photos for condition, sample page and cover blurb - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
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