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Review: The Last Assassin – The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar – by Peter Stothard
‘Et tu Brute’ – these are the immortal words of Shakespeare, recounting the treacherous death of one of Rome’s greatest Emperors, Julius Caesar. This book, by Peter Stothard, is a historical novel, recounting the last days of Caesar and the Empire of Rome immediately after his death and how, to a man, the assassins were… Continue reading
ancient history, assassination, Athens, Augustus Caesar, Brutus, Caesar, Cassius, Cassius Parmensis, civil war, dictator, dictatorship, Et tu Brute, history, Julius Caesar, Lepidus, Mark Anthony, murder, Octavian, Peter Stothard, poet, Politics, Roman Empire, Rome, Shakespeare, The Last Assassin, triumvirate, war -
Review: Red Notice – How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy – by Bill Browder
There is irony in this tale as Bill Browder was following in his grandfather’s footsteps in some ways but was also radically poles apart. Browder’s grandfather had stood for Presidential election in the USA on a Communist ticket. Bill Browder was drawn to business possibilities behind the Iron Curtain and in the post Cold War,… Continue reading
Barack Obama, Berlin Wall, Bill Browder, Capitalism, capitalist, City of London, cold war, Communism, Communist, corruption, crime, Eastern Europe, Europe, European, finance, Gangster, Hermitage, Hermitage Capital Management, Hermitage Fund, Human rights, international business, Iron Curtain, jail, Jew, Jewish, John Kerry, John McCain, justice, Kremlin, law, lawyer, London, Moscow, murder, oligarch, parliament, President, President Obama, prison, Putin, Red Notice, Roberrt Maxwell, Russia, Russian, sanctions, Sergei Magnitsky, Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, Soviet Union, Stanford, U.K., United States, USA, visa restrictions, Vladimir Putin, Washington, xorruption -
Review: In The Shadow of Papillon – Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela’s Prison System – by Frank Kane with John Tilsley
Frank Kane and his girlfriend, Sam, after their business was failing in the U.K. made the fateful decision to become cocaine drug couriers in Venezuela. Whilst attempting to fly out from the airport on Caribbean Island, Isla de Margarita, the airport authorities stopped and searched them and discovered the smuggled contraband which was a few… Continue reading
Agua Verde, army, biography, British Consul, Cartel, COcaine, drug smuggling, El Dorado, Henri Charrière, Human rights, Isla Margarita, jail, John Tilsley, Latin America, Military, murder, narcotics, narcotrafficking, Papillon, prison, raqueta, San ANtonio, smuggling, Spanish, Travel, U.K., Venezuela, violence, war, warfare -
Review: Gommorah – Italy’s Other Mafia – by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is the Italian Salman Rushdie. After writing his exposé on the Neapolitan mafia that is the subject of this book, Gomorrah, Saviano had serious death threats from organised crime and had to go into hiding and lives under security protection to this day. He is only a young man and is a patriotic… Continue reading
agriculture, Camorra, Cartel, cartels, China, COcaine, Colombia, Cosa Nostra, crime, environment, Europe, fake, Fashion, Gommorah, heroin, Italian Mafia, Italy, junkie, landfill, Made in Italy, mafia, Mexico, murder, Naples, Napoli, narcotics, Ndragheta, Neapolitan, omerta, Organised Crime, Roberto Saviano, Salmon Rushdie, textiles, toxic, waste disposal -
Review: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol – by Graham Greene
Graham Greene is a classic early twentieth century English novelist. I remember studying Brighton Rock for my school GCSEs.The Third Man is set in the murky underworld of post World War 2 Vienna. The Austrian capital has been quartered into four allied zones: English, French, American and Russian. A front of the Cold War there… Continue reading
assassin, Austria, Brighton Rock, Britain, cold war, Colonel Calloway, DRUGS DRUG DEALING RACKET, France, funeral, Graham Greene, Harry lIME, Hungarian, Londion, murder, Nazi, PENICILLIN, polceman, police, ROLLO MARTINS, Russia, sewer, Soviet Union, Suicide, the fallen idol, the third man, U.K., USA, Vienna -
Review: Dangerous People, Dangerous Places – by Norman Parker
Author, Norman Parker served a 24 year jail sentence for murder. On his release, wanting to experience life to the fullest, he took advantage of his writing skills to become a journalist for lads mags and the Daily Express and set about tackling the niche market of visiting dangerous places in the world and through… Continue reading
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Review: Gypsy Jane – by Jane Lee with David Jarvis
I read this book really quickly- it was enticing and a good tale. Gypsy Jane is something of a crazy phenomenon who rocked the London underworld with some pretty brutal firsthand tales. It didn’t take much for the Gran to pay a visit to any dissidents and she’d be brandishing a samurai sword or her… Continue reading
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Review: Silver Bullets – by Élmer Mendoza
This Mexican author, Elmer Mendoza, is about as vibrant a writer of fiction that I have encountered since Hemingway. A truly unique flowing style that is amazing to digest. The hero of the book is policeman Edgar ‘Lefty’ Mendieta. He is a drunken womaniser and the tale weaves in his affairs with the grisly murder-suicide… Continue reading
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Review: The Cartel – The Inside Story of Britain’s Biggest Drugs Gang – by Graham Johnson
When you see the title ‘The Cartel’ you might immediately imagine a book about Colombian or Mexican drug lords. Yet, this book covers a 30 year history of a homegrown cartel, based in Liverpool. Back in the 1970s a pioneering Fred the Rat grouped together his criminal comrades and they moved from bank robberies and… Continue reading
Amsterdam, Cali, Cali Cartel, Cartel, COcaine, Colombia, Cream, Curtis Warren, dance music, dance music culture, doormen, drug trafficking, drugs cartel, drugs gangs, drygs, Dutch, Gangster, Graham Johnson, Hector, Jill Dando, Kaiser, Liverpool, Liverpool cartel, machetes, Major Crimes Unit, MCU, Merseyside, Mexico, murder, narcotics, police, Poncho, Rave scene, Scarface, scouse, South America, Sunday Times Rich List, The Analyst, The Cartel, The Netherlands, trafficking -
Review: El Infierno – Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder – My Time Inside Ecuador’s Toughest Prisons – by Pieter Tritton
This autobiographical account of Brit drug smuggler, Pieter Tritton, is a flowing, page-turning journey that documents his twelve years locked up in Ecuador’s notorious, corrupt and highly dangerous prison system. Tritton is already in trouble back in the UK where he is being sought by police for large scale international drug trafficking. He heads out… Continue reading
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