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Narrado por:
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J. Allan Lewis
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Lee Olson
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What really took place in Alcatraz prison during the 1940s? Was the "Battle for Alcatraz" an escape attempt or an uprising? The truth is in this book. The first-hand accounts of the inmate's stories in this book have never before been told. These are voices from the grave, finally being heard after 70 years.
Every soul has a song. Every person has a story. They were shackled to chains, and their voices dampened. Their whispers went unheard; until now.
Ever wonder what happens to an inmate's possessions when they don't have any family? Well, sometimes, they end up in your very own hands. Handwritten memoirs were left to the author by an uncle whom he had barely known. It turned out the uncle had an associate who had spent time in Alcatraz during the 1940s. He did not realize the importance of the papers in his possession.
One could easily compare them to the Valachie Papers. You will be amazed and entertained as never before.
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As he struggles to be a good officer, Ted Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike. The tale begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke of New Year's Eve on Conover's floor of the notorious B-Block. Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE BEST BOOK ON PRISON LIFE I HAVE EVER READ!!!
- De Steve en 06-27-09
De: Ted Conover
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- De: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- De Russell en 07-21-17
De: Wayne Worcester, y otros
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Inside Alcatraz
- My Time on the Rock
- De: Jim Quillen
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Cautionary Tale of a Life Misspent
- De Rob S. en 03-16-17
De: Jim Quillen
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Marked for Life
- One Man's Fight for Justice from the Inside
- De: Isaac Wright Jr., Jon Sternfeld - contributor
- Narrado por: Isaac Wright Jr.
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just Fascinating!
- De Jerald's Pearl en 01-25-25
De: Isaac Wright Jr., y otros
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Saltwater Cowboy
- The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
- De: Tim McBride, Ralph Berrier Jr.
- Narrado por: Wes Talbot
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 102
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was 21, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great made even better by the fact it's non fictio
- De Porkchop en 01-11-18
De: Tim McBride, y otros
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The Onion Field
- De: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 899
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 760
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 753
Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting
- De Avalon en 03-03-13
De: Joseph Wambaugh
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Gaspipe
- Confessions of a Mafia Boss
- De: Philip Carlo
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 521
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than 50 murders. Currently serving 13 life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times best-selling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author fails the objectivity test
- De William en 11-29-08
De: Philip Carlo
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Above the Law
- De: J.F. Freedman
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book great ending
- De shelley en 04-10-14
De: J.F. Freedman
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 820
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 709
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 709
It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Julio en 06-28-18
De: T. J. English
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Cry Havoc
- De: Captain Simon Mann
- Narrado por: Captain Simon Mann
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
On March 7, 2004, former SAS soldier and mercenary Simon Mann prepared to take off from Harare International Airport. His destination was Equatorial Guinea; his intention was to remove one of the most brutal dictators in Africa in a privately organized coup d’état. The plot had the tacit approval of Western intelligence agencies, and Mann had already planned, overseen, and won two wars in Angola and Sierra Leone. So why did it go so wrong?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Average
- De Miriam Majome en 08-23-15
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Boston Mob
- The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
- De: Marc Songini
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging, and other enterprises. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence, and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- De joeyg1963 en 12-07-19
De: Marc Songini
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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Executive Privilege
- De: Phillip Margolin
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 909
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 503
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- De Lupo en 06-25-08
De: Phillip Margolin
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No Lesser Plea
- Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Book 1
- De: Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 637
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 565
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 561
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice. So when a vicious sociopath tries to dodge a brutal murder charge by convincing the court he is incompetent to stand trial, Karp teams up with firecracker Assistant DA Marlene Ciampi to unleash the full force of their relentless energy, hardboiled wit, and passion for the truth to put the killer away for good. They will accept no lesser plea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Decent LIsten
- De Ted en 08-31-14
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The Black Hand
- The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
- De: Chris Blatchford
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,720
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison - at the age of 19 - Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme. What the organization saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone - justifiably or not - in the blink of an eye.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense, brutal, and informative
- De E en 07-08-15
De: Chris Blatchford
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Revolt in 2100
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 524
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heinlein's Future History
- De ShySusan en 05-30-12
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The Power of the Dog
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,925
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,919
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,891
This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Drama
- De Deborah en 01-06-11
De: Don Winslow