Donnie BrascoUnfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of the MafiaWhen FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a “six-month”...

Frank W AbagnaleFrank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history....

Richard PrestonA highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent...

Jim Dwyer and Kevin FlynnThe dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute countedAt 8:46...

David W Maurer'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con. A professor of linguistics who...

James EllroyJames Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by...

Patricia CornwellNow updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An...

Stephen Fay In an eerie echo of 1929's Black Thursday, which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, March 27, 1980, was dubbed Silver Thursday by a very fightened Wall...

Tom Wright and Bradley Hope An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how a young social climber pulled off one of the biggest...

Herbert Ashbury The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the...

Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of...

Selected and Introduced by Richard Glyn Jones To fascinate, the mere fact of a murder being unsolved is not enough. After all, hundreds of crimes are committed without even a...