Crime Conspiracy

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.

Ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance. Loser Gordon Butts, recently fired at a dead-end job, happens upon a new job opportunity, where he cons his way through an interview with the company president, Walter Thornton. Butts claws his way to the top, removing all obstacles in his path. But ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance all have a stated price. Butts's outlandish and reckless behavior demands eternal justice. And justice is most assuredly served!

The president in the crosshairs. A deep-state conspiracy. Can Secret Agent Steven Popoford expose the truth before he lands in an unmarked grave? California mountains, 1986. Retired secret agent Steven Popoford spends his days nursing his shattered mind. But when his cover is blown and he kills a stranger inside his home, he’s thrown back into the world of spies. And trapped in the twisted reality of the very agency that broke him, Popoford plunges into his most treacherous mission yet: Assassinate the POTUS.

Angy was an activist and spent her days collecting evidence for a commission of inquiry into policing that had the chance to change law enforcement across the country's troubled townships. She was vocal against vigilante violence and a go-to person when demanding better services from the police. But when the commission started its hearings, Angy found herself on trial for murdering - necklacing - a young neighbourhood troublemaker, Rowan du Preez.

Former US Navy SEAL Frank Marshall has innocent blood on his hands. Lots of it. Now his only mission in life is to make things right, and that means stepping back onto the grid. Where men of violence are waiting to kill him. Across the Atlantic, a brutal London gangster has given border force officer Roy Sullivan an ultimatum—take part in a criminal enterprise or watch his young son and ex-wife suffer the consequences.

Hoax, conspiracy, or secret society? That is the range of responses you might hear when raising the idea of the Priory of Sion. Ostensibly a clandestine order designed to disguise the truth about the children of Jesus Christ, the group have been labeled as either an elaborate concoction or the most powerful secret society in the world. Are they real? What are they hiding? Where did they come from? What impact can they have on the world around us? These are the questions this book will hope to answer.

Steve Gillon follows Lee Harvey Oswald for the 48 hours after the Kennedy assassination in search of answers to the question that has been troubling America for the past five decades: Why did he shoot JFK? The Warren Commission speculated that Oswald was simply a deranged sociopath. But recently declassified materials raise new troubling questions.

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman. A fast-paced, journalistic account of tragedy turned to triumph, despair to hope, Cobalt Cover-Up is an inspirational, thoroughly compelling, and victorious listen.

In Manhattan stürzt eine junge Frau von der Feuertreppe. Das Gesicht der Toten ist das einer Greisin. Der Polizist Ryan Ferland ermittelt. - Ein blinder Passagier wird von der Besatzung eines Schiffs entdeckt. Statt ihm zu helfen, übergibt man ihn an eine dubiose Hilfsorganisation. - Eine Ingenieurin macht in den indischen Labors eines Kosmetikkonzerns eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung. Doch niemand glaubt ihr. - Wie hängen diese Fälle zusammen? Ferland stößt auf eine unglaubliche Verschwörung.