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A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye. Allan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century. But the details of his impact, business empire, and private life have been incomplete. Drawing on overlooked primary sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones provides an authoritative account of the man and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA).

Notorious, Volume 4 takes listeners deep into the invisible battlefield of the 21st century, where keystrokes are weapons, data is currency, and the enemy could be anywhere in the world… or right next door. From back-alley hackers and credit card cloners to billion-dollar ransomware syndicates and state-sponsored cyber armies, this explosive volume uncovers the shocking truths behind the most dangerous criminals you’ll never see. Meet the real-world villains, social engineers who manipulate minds, coders who hijack infrastructure, and corrupt call-center networks operating with near impunity.

This book is going to look at a variety of cases of missing people. They will have unresolved endings in many of the cases. In some there are conspiracy theories and improbable suggestions for what might have happened. In others, there is every reason to believe in foul play and deeply sinister motives.

Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his...

Iosi era un miembro muy respetado de la comunidad judía argentina, así como también era el secretario de la Organización Sionista Argentina. Detrás de la fachada de un hombre devoto, yacía un espía extremadamente entrenado quien fue colocado dentro de la comunidad judía para extraer información para el gobierno argentino. Su verdadero nombre: José Pérez. Sin embargo, Iosi no sabía que la información que entregó iba a ser utilizada para planear dos de los peores atentados terroristas de la historia argentina.

On 17 April 1984, as demonstrators gathered outside the Libyan embassy in London, two gunmen lay in wait inside. At 10.18 a.m. automatic gunfire rained down on the protestors and WPC Yvonne Fletcher fell, mortally wounded. As his friend lay dying, PC John Murray made her a promise that he would not rest until those responsible had been brought to justice. Thirty-seven years would pass before he was able to fulfil that undertaking.

In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking ven­geance. Their target: "Cruxy" O'Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I. Cruxy's last betrayal dealt a blow to Ireland's struggle for independence: six of his IRA comrades were killed when he told police the location of their safe house. A year later, the IRA gunned him down before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers.

In the fall of 1876, two Swiss spies came to America and conducted some of the most covert and consequential industrial espionage in history, changing the course of the global watch industry forever. Had the events of 1876 never happened, we would likely know little of Swiss watches today.

Ethan Quinn, the bestselling espionage author, has gathered four of his most incredible spy stories into one book. The collection contains some of the most fascinating people in the history of espionage.

These gruesome stories have peppered the pages of newspapers and history books over the centuries. Some are well-known. Some aren’t. They rest in that murky place between true crime and horror. The tales in this, Book Three of the series, shift away from the gruesome. These are instead tales of the secretive and the covert, the figures across time who affected the events etched in history.

Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage details the collection techniques that NFL teams utilize to gather information on their opponents in order to gain a game-day advantage, as well as the countermeasures used to defend against them. The book spans the entire history of the league and contains anecdotes from every NFL team. Topics include spying on practices, stealing paperwork and signals, debriefing personnel that switch teams, listening devices, headset tampering, elicitation, Spygate, Deflategate, and so much more!

Tras el suicidio de un inspector de policía belga que había avisado de la posibilidad de los ataques yihadistas de París, los servicios de seguridad del Estado movilizan todos sus esfuerzos para evitar algo similar en España, la denominada Operación Protector, con ramificaciones entre terroristas, las mafias de la Costa del Sol y los traficantes de armas. El autor de este libro, curtido en mil batallas, narra los entresijos de esta operación al mismo tiempo que describe de primera mano los temores, dudas y ambiciones que asaltan a su protagonista, un policía infiltrado.

Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen? What sends these kids over the edge? Could we have seen these crimes coming and...

¿Quién fue Jaroslav Slavik? ¿Acaso Marcel Moghrani... o Marcel Masarovic? ¿Era un espía, un conspirador, una pieza clave del contraespionaje? ¿Cómo llegó a México? Escrita con un tono donde la melancolía y la historia de finales del siglo XX se mezclan para hablar de la Guerra Fría y las tensiones políticas en Europa, así como de las heridas que dejó la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Un espía en México devela los días de un agente de la inteligencia francesa, sus delirios tocados por el horror, el alcohol, la tortura, las ejecuciones y la desesperación.

The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely—and they were both convinced he was working for the enemy...

The First Counterspy is the story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell's technical library. The FBI pitted them against Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.

Em 1942, os Aliados estavam perdendo a guerra e a Alemanha parecia invencível. A inteligência britânica tinha espiões treinados em todo tipo de serviço, mas percebeu que, para vencer, era necessário tomar uma medida sem precedentes: recrutar agentes do sexo feminino. Trinta e nove mulheres responderam ao chamado, deixando suas vidas para se tornarem sabotadoras na França.

Vuelve Fernando Rueda, el autor del best seller "Yo confieso", con un reto aún más difícil: destapar el acontecimiento más grave de la historia del servicio secreto. La historia basada en hechos reales de un grupo de espías que desde el año 2000 se la jugaron en Irak para obtener información valiosa para el Gobierno y a partir de 2003 para proteger a las tropas españolas destinada allí tras la invasión del país comandada por Bush, el presidente de Estados Unidos.

Seguindo os passos do pai e do irmão, Oleg Gordievsky se tornou oficial da KGB após frequentar as melhores instituições soviéticas. Porém, ao contrário deles, nutria uma secreta aversão pelo regime da URSS. Ele resolveu assumir seu primeiro posto da inteligência russa em 1966. Em 1974, tornou-se agente duplo do MI6, o serviço de inteligência britânico, e dez anos depois era o homem mais importante da União Soviética em Londres. Gordievsky ajudou o Ocidente a virar o jogo contra a KGB na Guerra Fria.

Infidelidades, espionaje, desapariciones, secuestros, coacciones, engaños, chantajes... Estos son algunos de los asuntos que tratan los detectives privados en su día a día, al margen de la actuación policial. ¿Pero son acaso los detectives lo que vemos en las series de televisión y en las películas? Este audiolibro indaga en la profesión para ofrecernos una versión real de lo es la profesión de los detectives de carne y hueso, sus métodos, casos curiosos y anécdotas reales.