Muscle

A story of Campania under the rule of a murderous organization.

The Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008

The compelling inside story of the guns, drugs and organised gang culture that has brought terror to the streets of Nottingham and led to the city being labelled Gun Capital UK.

The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar.

One day, when Sarah Forsyth spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in Amsterdam, thrilled by the prospect of a fresh start away from Newcastle, she eagerly signed up. But within minutes of arriving in Amsterdam her life began to fall apart. There was no creche and no job: Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking. Fed cocaine and cannabis, and forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in ..

Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. This work gives an insight into the mind of one of the world's most prolific contract killers.

Carlton Leach is a man to be reckoned with: make a friend of Carlton and you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. Here he presents his life as a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties and nineties, sparking a savage drugs war.

Infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far-reaching as Los Angeles, Bulgaria and Kenya. The author, while investigating Neo-Nazi football hooligans in Poland, is tear-gassed at a football match as he shadows an elite police riot squad. Risking his life, he goes deep into the realms of gangland culture.

Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, the Lone Star State has put nearly 400 prisoners to death. This title presents a compendium of these condemned men and women, which reveals details of their crimes, sentencing, last meals and last words.