Page-turning thriller from the bestselling author of Tully. A heavily pregnant young woman is leaving the shopping mall to head home on a horribly hot day in Texas. Her normal life of shopping, husband, children, with the extra excitement of the imminent baby, stretches before her. And then she is bundled into a car and kidnapped by a desperate young man. What does he want? Where are they going? In scenes that alternate between the desperate husband, pursuing by car and helicopter with an alarmingly laid-back FBI man, who may or may not be as good as he thinks he is at rescuing hostages, and the more and more threatened wife, Eleven Hours is a tour de force of storytelling power from an author with a proven track-record of delivering the goods.
"One of the most original approaches to the history of the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta I know and I have already learned a great deal from it. A first-rate piece of work." Eric Hobsbawm, Professor emeritus of history, Birkbeck College, University of London.
"Mafia Brotherhoods is an outstanding addition to the stream of modern classics on the Italian Mafia. Analytically rigorous and theoretically well informed, it makes excellent use of the treasury trove of materials supplied by recent Mafia defectors to provide a rich description of both Sicilian and Calbrian Mafias. Featuring a novel and systematic comparison with the American Mafia, Paoli's work will be an indispensable resource for American readers." Peter Reuter, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
"A great read and a major step forward in the cause of understanding organized crime in all of its forms. Paoli's is a necessary book for anyone, whether academic or professional, serious about organized crime." G. Robert Blakey, William and Dorothy O'Neill Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
"This book on the Italian mafia is a milestone in the comparative study of so-called 'organized crime'. An impressive demonstration of the relevance of culture in shaping mafia action, it is also a valuable contribution to the contemporary sociological debate." Shmuel Eisenstadt, Rose Isaacs Professor emeritus of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favorite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular Good Reading, this book contains a rich selection of some of the best crime novels ever published.
Browse a bookstore and you will find a healthy shelf labeled "Crime." Beside it may be a smaller, seedier shelf labeled "True Crime." The first is popular crime fiction, the second crime fact. Fictional crime has taken over, writes Mark Seltzer, and the confusion of reality and event has saturated-and even defined-contemporary American culture. In his widely read Serial Killers, American studies scholar Mark Seltzer analyzed the American obsession with violent accident-vehicular homicide, serial murders, and other spectacularly awful events.
Understanding forensics can be murder. But not with this novel approach. The Forensic Mission will draw you into a suspenseful mystery while you delve into forensic science and its role in solving crimes. Investigating a string of homicides, you'll search for clues alongside detectives at crime scenes and process evidence alongside technicians in the crime lab. You'll consider aspects such as admissibility of evidence, blood spatter analysis, and more. Both an intriguingthriller and a forensics guidebook, The Forensic Mission: * Covers crime scene procedures, blood typing, DNA,fingerprints, ballistics, stages of decomposition,and more * Features recaps at the ends of many chapters withvocabulary and background information * Includes two appendixes of additional referencesand Web sites where you can explore chromatography,entomology, forensic pathology, gunshot wounds,and more You'll be enthralled while you learn in this riveting killer thriller that weaves together bookies, bullets, bodies, and science.
