Crime Heist

With Commander Kieron Phillips very much looking forward to holidaying on the ocean waves and the chance to catch up with his daughter, a dancer onboard the cruise ship he’s just embarked, Stuart St Paul sets the scene for his action-packed thriller, Cruise Ship Heist. Realizing all too quickly that there was nothing coincidental about him being on board this specific voyage, Commander Phillips brings into play the full arsenal of his military background, in order to return the MV Lady Diana to holiday mode.

Growing up, Michael wanted nothing more than to follow in his dad’s footsteps and join the family business. Aged 18, he did just that and entered into the glamourous, dangerous world of organised crime. Michael’s father, a career criminal and contemporary of the infamous Krays, was a wayward role model. Soon, Michael’s criminal activities were funding a reckless lifestyle of drugs, sex, and violence.

Shotguns and Stagecoaches tells the true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives....

Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world—from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio—the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums.

In a Midwestern city, Parker calmly tosses a firebomb through a plate-glass window, while some newfound partners in crime take down a nearby bank. Making their getaway in the confusion, the bank robbers tell him two things: that this heist was only seed money for a much gaudier one, and that Parker has to loan them his share of the take.

Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can’t hide in a sunny beach town forever. And before they go on the run again, their generous host - a wealthy drug smuggler - expects to be paid for his hospitality. And paid double. His price? A nearly impossible operation that Gibson and his gang must pull off to retrieve a king’s ransom in hijacked narcotics.

Davis Way Cole smells T-R-O-U-B-L-E when she's fired from half of her part-time job at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The quarter-time job she's left with is lulling her to sleep, exactly what she's doing when Birdy James, centenarian director of the casino's Lost and Found department, disappears. With five million dollars. Davis just can't help believing Birdy didn't do it, if for no other reason, she's too old to spend it.

Armed-encounters expert and police trainer Brian McKenna shares his expertise in a series of gripping stories involving real-life police shootouts. Step into the shoes of police officers who have run toward the sound of gunfire, who have faced attacks by deadly assailants, and who have lived to share the tale. But this book is more than just stories about courageous cops. Each story is followed by McKenna’s expert analysis of its important learning points, especially concerning how and why the officers use force and the legal aspects of self-defense and the defense of others.

Kaufhauserpresser "Dagobert" gilt ohne Zweifel als Deutschlands populärster Nachkriegsganove. Jahrelang hatte er die Spezialisten des Bundeskriminalamtes und Tausende Polizeibeamte mit raffinierten technischen Tricks in Atem gehalten. Da bei seinen Anschlägen nie jemand ernstlich verletzt wurde und seine Aktionen von Witz und Humor zeugten, gewann er zunehmend die Sympathien der Öffentlichkeit. Von den Medien angeheizt, kursierten die abenteuerlichsten Spekulationen darüber, wer sich hinter diesem modernen "Hauptmann von Köpenick" verbarg.

In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the Museum was hit. But when it finally happened, it quickly became one of the most infamous art heists in history.

Three years ago, a little painting caused big trouble for undercover agent Bob Wittman. Here, for the first time, he tells all.

The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer is Rose Dugdale’s story, from her idyllic upbringing in Devonshire and her presentation to Elizabeth II as a debutante to her university years and her eventual radical lifestyle.

For years, Cinna has been forced to serve her wealthy cousins rather than attend society events alongside them. She has waited for the chance to exact revenge. When a ball at the castle is announced, promising to bring many powerful people to town, she seizes the opportunity to strike. She bets her best friend, Johann, a small-time thief and con man, that she can land a greater score the night of the ball than he can. But as their plots unfold, things begin to unravel. By the end of the night, the castle’s on lockdown, a duchess is dead, a mansion has burned to the ground.

John and Abby Adams, known as "the Levelers" have led a glamorous life, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. But now, their careers, and their marriage, may be in jeopardy if they can't pull off one last heist. Their team is assembled: the dashing thief, the clever con woman, the tough guy with the muscle, and the mysterious ingenue with her own agenda. With a crew like this, they should be able to get the job done.

Master burglars Harper and Salsa thought they were on easy street forever. Then they heard about the private casino on a mysterious island in the Florida Keys, and the millions in lost Nazi gold propping up the whole enterprise.

It's the holiday season of 1965, and the fabulous Caesars Palace resort and casino is about to open in Las Vegas. And its vault is filled to bursting with cash. John Harper and Saul "Salsa" Salzman roll into town with inside information: a secret way into the casino, leading right to the vault itself. Putting together a small but highly skilled team, they make their move, aiming for untold riches. But jobs like this never go as planned. A beautiful widow, a jealous enforcer, and a murderous rival casino owner all want a piece of the pie.

After the nightmare of the London Murders just weeks ago, Michèle is hoping for a nice, quiet trip with her new boyfriend, the notorious detective N, to the Italian city of Naples, where a crew of highly skilled heist men had managed to pull off the largest heist in the country's history without even raising an alarm.

A brilliant computer scientist/engineer assists a retired SJPD detective with solving cold cases. They take on a nearly 10-year-old bank robbery of a bank in Willow Glen, CA. The robbers made off with $60 million in cash and safe deposit box contents. Law enforcement was baffled that they never found the team or any of the cache. Enter computer expert Damian, who has a scientist's way of looking at how to trace the robbery's contents.

The tempestuous Riley and seductive Lulu are beautiful thieves on a mission to save the financially strained academy they once called home. Their determination to complete their goal is rivaled only by their passionate love for each other. But when their final heist meets a snag in the form of the striking knight Sir Hawkwood, will everything they've worked for fall apart?

On 24 May 1971, based on a telephone call purportedly from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her secretary P.N. Haksar, the chief cashier at the Parliament Street branch of the State Bank of India handed over Rs 60 lakh to a stranger posing as the PM's courier. The money was supposedly meant for secret operations in East Pakistan. When the chief cashier approached the PMO for a receipt, he was told that neither Haksar nor the PM had given any such instructions. He had been duped.