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Gang Wars of London: How the Streets of the Capital Became a Battleground; by Wensley Clarkson.
 
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Gang Wars of London charts the development of organized crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals, and terrorists that threaten citizens' safety today.
The underworld has thrived for more than half a century but it appears the capital has now entered its most deadly phrase, as vicious gangs from all over the globe are making the city their home. They will do anything to get what they want and challenge anyone who gets in their way: police, civilians, or each other.
Here, for the first time, is an up to date and in depth account of London's current crime epidemic that threatens to destroy the very fabric of the capital city.

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The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver.
 
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Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer.
She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions.
The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim.
She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks.
They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.
As the body count threatens to grow, Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identity and discover his mission before more people die.
 

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Shock Wave by John Sandford.
 
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Talk about risky business.
 
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: the local merchants fearing for their businesses, and the environmentalists predicting ecological disaster.
The protests don't seem to be slowing the project down, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.
 
The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself.
The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage and they do.
 
Who's behind the bombs and how far will they go?
It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed.

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Truth or Die by James Patterson & Howard Roughan.
 
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The truth will set you free-if it doesn't kill you first.
 
After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride.
He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop.
But when Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered as he tries to find out why.
 
Chasing Claire's leads, Trevor unearths evidence of a shocking secret that if it actually exists, every government and terrorist organization around the world would do anything to possess. Suddenly it's up to Trevor, along with a teenage genius who gives new meaning to the phrase "too smart for his own good," to make sure that secret doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
But Trevor is about to discover that good and evil can look a lot alike, and nothing is ever black and white: not even the truth.

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The Russia House by John le Carré.
 
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Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz.
But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise.
Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him.
A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go between, the beautiful Katya.
Both are lonely and disillusioned.
Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ...
 
In his first post glasnost spy novel, le Carré captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet masters who command them.

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Sanctus (Sancti Trilogy 1) by Simon Toyne.
 
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The certainties of the modern world are about to be blown apart by a three thousand year old conspiracy nurtured by blood and lies.
A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin.
This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act.
And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world.
 
But few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, it is what they have been waiting for. The cowled and secretive fanatics that live in the Citadel suspect it could mean the end of everything they have built and they will kill, torture and break every law to stop that.
For Liv Adamsen, New York crime reporter, it begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity.
 
And at that journey's end lies a discovery that will change EVERYTHING …
 
SANCTUS is an apocalyptic conspiracy thriller like no other it re sets the bar for excitement and fascination, and marks the debut of a major talent in Simon Toyne.

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Discover Your True Potential: We All Have the Potential for Greatness by R. Ian Seymour.
 
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Many people, after spending their younger days rushing to achieve financial success and the approval of others, begin to question the meaning of life and reconsider their lifes direction.
This book is designed to help people identify their true goals and meet their personal potentials.
By illustrating the principles and disciplines of self improvement, Seymour encourages readers, at any stage in their lives, to achieve happiness and fulfillment.

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Sink the Belgrano by Mike Rossiter.
 
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On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
At first he didn't believe it. In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Isles.
 
The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict.
For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight.
Now Mike Rossiter with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror, gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking.
 
With all the pace and tension of a thriller, Sink the Belgrano takes us inside the battle for the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the famous, and controversial, headline 'Gotcha?'
We track the collision course between the British submarine Conqueror and the Argentine warship, as the two sides and everyone aboard head towards the climactic moment just outside the exclusion zone set up by the British around the Falkland Isles. We witness the behind the scenes arguments, discussions and power broking that led to the decision to fire the three torpedoes. And, for the first time, we hear from the sailors on both sides the personal testimony of the hunt for and attack on the Belgrano, and from the Argentine side the experience of being under attack and the sinking that left 340 members of her crew dead.

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They Call Them Grifters: The True Story of Sante and Kenneth Kimes by Alice McQuillan.
 
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Sante Kimes broke new ground as a murderous grifter in the 1990's. Jailed for enslaving maids, suspected of at least five murders, chased for insurance frauds and credit card scams, was there nothing this woman wouldn't do in pursuit of financial gain?
and all with the help of her son Kenny.
This book is one of four or five about Mrs Kimes and her life of crime, like all the others, it unearths previously unknown detail. Together with Kent Walker's excellent Son of a Grifter and John Marquis's Evil and Son, it makes for great reading about one of the most compelling murder cases of modern times.

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My Colourful Life: From Red to Amber by Ginger Mccain.
 
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Omnibus: Like Love, Lady Lady I Did It, The Empty Hours
by Ed McBain.

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3 chillers from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series in one edition: 'Like Love', 'Lady, Lady I Did It!' and 'The Empty Hours'.

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The Trophy Taker by Lee Weeks.
 
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A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money.
 
A serial killer is on the loose.
His target?
Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money.
As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found all over the island and more girls are disappearing.
 
Taking on his first homicide case, Detective Johnny Mann is determined to stop The Butcher's brutal reign.
Haunted by the memory of his father's death by the Triads, he's the only man who can track down a killer who's paralysing the city with fear.
 
Georgina Johnson has left her tragic past in England to start afresh in Hong Kong.
But soon her life is in peril as she is sucked into the sinister world of the city's hostess clubs.
Venturing into dark and dangerous places, Mann unearths chilling evidence about the killings.
And then another body is found, one which brings the murders closer to home.
 
Bolt the doors, turn on the lights and pray for mercy, you'll be up all night with this disturbingly addictive debut from a writer being hailed as the female James Patterson.

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The American West by Dee Brown.
 
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As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana.
Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape.
The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

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The Walkaway by Scott Phillips.
 
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The crime was unintentional and had no witnesses.
The guilty could flee the scene, dispose of the body, keep the cash, and simply walk away.
But actions have consequences and even the most perfectly executed “walkaway” is followed by a shadow. . . .
 
On a snowy Christmas morning in 1979, Gunther Fahnstiel, travelling with his wife, accidentally backed his RV over a stranger, killing him instantly.
In the poor soul’s car was a satchel containing plane tickets, a .22 caliber pistol, a bottle of Johnnie Walker, and more money than Gunther had ever seen in his life.
For the debt ridden old couple, it would indeed be a merry Christmas, but nobody can buy a happy ending, especially Gunther.
 
Ten years later, under the scorching summer sun, seventy seven year old Gunther walks away from his nursing home and sets off to find the hidden money. '
But he is not alone: hot on his trail is a former captain of the Wichita police, who is piecing together clues for two unsolved murders; a two-timing, whore loving local developer, who sees dollar signs if the coot is captured; Gunther’s stepson, a former bouncer turned businessman whose curiosity is peaked by his mother’s creative accounting; and that very same mother (AKA Gunther’s wife), who risks her husband’s safety to keep their secret.
 
As the journey unfolds and the mercury climbs, another story emerges of a U.S. soldier returning to Wichita in 1952 under an assumed name to seek vengeance on his estranged wife.
The young patrolman out to protect her is none other than Gunther Fahnstiel, whose actions will reverberate in the lives of all involved nearly half a century later.
 
Cops on the take, jealous husbands with scores to settle, hookers scratching by, cranky curmudgeons, assorted misfits, and a ugly whore named Beulah, all play intricate roles in The Walkway.
With the same flair for dark humor and crime noir that heralded his bestselling debut, Scott Phillips returns with another accomplished novel of deceit, treachery, and old-fashioned greed.

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Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon.
 
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This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history.
As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid 1970's with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save the Queen'. Via his music and invective he spearheaded a generation of young people across the world who were clamouring for change and found it in the style and attitude of this most unlikely figurehead.
 
With his next band, Public Image Ltd (PiL) Lydon expressed an equally urgent impulse in his make up, the constant need to reinvent himself.
From their beginnings in 1978 he set the template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive in the 2010s.
He also found time for making innovative new dance records with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield.
 
Following the release of a solo record in 1997, John took a sabbatical from his music career into other media, most memorably his own Rotten TV show for VH1 and as the most outrageous contestant ever on I'm a Celebrity ...
Get Me Out of Here!
He then fronted the Megabugs Series and one off nature documentaries and even turned his hand to a series of much loved TV advertisements for Country Life butter.
 
Lydon has remained a compelling and dynamic figure, both as a musician, and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, yet always heartfelt and honest statements, as a cultural commentator.
The book is a fresh and mature look back on a life full of incident from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents who grew up in post-war London, to his present status as a vibrant, alternative national hero.

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Dispatches: by Michael Herr.
 
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A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.
 
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality, Our machine was devastating and versatile.
It could do everything but stop.
 
Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men.
His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.
 
First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict.
It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.

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The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman.
 
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The literary history suspense novel has long been a genre appreciated by a small subset of general readers.
It is currently enjoying a new vogue and a wider readership with the publication of such novels as The Da Vinci Code, The Rule of Four, and Codex.
What these books have in common, and what The Geographer's Library can also claim, is a set of characters in the here and now grappling with questions about things that went on a very long time ago.
Another characteristic is the unearthing or explanation of objects of great value.
The trick is to weave these two realities together in a compelling way, one that will keep the reader involved in both stories.
Jon Fasman has taken a big chance with The Geographer's Library, his debut novel, setting out a complicated scenario in which a collection of priceless objects is stolen from the titular library and, eventually, scattered and re-collected a thousand years later with very bad results for the final collector. The geographer is a real person, Al-Idrisi, a Spanish-Muslim philosopher, cartographer, linguist, and scholar who served in the court of King Roger of Sicily in Palermo in the year 1154.
For the most part, Fasman risk pays off, although there is a lot of meandering before we finally get to the final revelation.
 
The "wraparound" story is about a young journalist, Paul Tomm, who sets out to write a simple obituary about a professor who died in his office at Paul's Alma Mater.
The man is Jaan Puhapaev, an Estonian perhaps, who is a terrible teacher, fires his gun out his office window twice, is odd, unavailable, and reclusive and yet is allowed to stay on for unknown reasons.
He also collects only $1.00 a year in salary and has no other visible means of support.
The core narrative is a description of the provenance and travels of each of the 15 objects, some or all of which may hold the secret of eternal life, stolen from Al-Idrisi.
 
A professor friend of Paul's, a policemen and a curious editor all get an investigation rolling regarding what really happened to Jaan, who is he, and is he perhaps much, much older than they think? Paul meets and falls for a neighbor and putative friend of Jaan's, a music teacher named Hannah Rowe, which moves the information curve upward.
This is the least believable part of the story: it's easier to accept the alchemical power of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes than Hannah. That said, Fasman does bring it all home at the end with an expository chapter and two letters.
A bit of a cheat, but at least the reader is neatly taken off the literary hook he has dangled on for 380 pages.

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The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
by Herbert Krosney.
 
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Judas Iscariot.
He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer, the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver.
 
But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot.
One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father named St. Irenaeus who railed against the Gospel of Judas for depicting the last days of Jesus from the perspective of the disgraced apostle.
In its pages, Judas is Christ’s favorite.
 
It’s a startlingly different story than the one handed down through the ages.
Once it was denounced as heresy, the Gospel of Judas faded from sight.
It became one of history’s forgotten manuscripts.
 
Until now.
In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries.
With all the skills of an investigative journalist and master storyteller, Krosney traces the forgotten gospel’s improbable journey across three continents, a trek that would take it through the netherworld of the international antiquities trade, until the crumbling papyrus is finally made to give up its Secrets.
The race to discover the Gospel of Judas will go down as one of the great detective stories of biblical archaeology.

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Star Island by Carl Hiaasen.

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Meet 22-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed" meaning wasted, to go out in public. 
And it is Ann mistaken for Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.

Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers, horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public and from Cherry herself. 
The situation is more complicated than they know. 
Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink, the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp, and now he's heading for Miami to find her . . .

Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip sync her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does? All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.

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The Witness (DI Ray Mason #1) by Simon Kernick.
 
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The gripping new race against time thriller by the author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute.
 
‘I had a simple choice, stay here, and almost certainly be discovered.
Or get up and run.’
 
THE WITNESS
When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger.
Taken to an anonymous police safe house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.
 
THE DETECTIVE
DI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that he’s now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place.
But can he be trusted, and does he know more about the attack than he’s letting on?
 
THE KILLER
In the safe house, Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover’s killer.
But what she doesn’t know is that the killer has already found out who she is, and where she is hiding.
 
And now he’s coming for her …

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Snow by Orhan Pamuk,
 
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Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism, these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel.
 
An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars.
His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their headscarves.
But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
 
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist.
A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness.
A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre.
And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else.
 
Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.

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Documents on the Rape of Nanking by Timothy Brook.
 
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The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking.
The Japanese Army's conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century.
The violence was documented at the time and then re documented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war.
This book brings together materials from both moments to provide the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape.
Part 1, "The Records," includes two sources written as the Rape was underway.
The first is a long set of documents produced by the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, a group of foreigners who strove to protect the Chinese residents.
The second is a series of letters that American surgeon Dr. Robert Wilson wrote for his family during the same period.
These letters are published here for the first time.
The evidence compiled by the International Committee and its members would be decisive for the indictments against Japanese leaders at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Part 2, "The Judgments," reprints portions of the tribunal's 1948 judgment dealing with the Rape of Nanking, its judicial consequences, and sections of the dissenting judgment of Justice Radhabinod Pal.
These contemporary records and judgments create an intimate firsthand account of the Rape of Nanking.
Together they are intended to stimulate deeper reflection than previously possible on how and why we assess and assign the burden of war guilt.
Timothy Brook is Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, and is coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities and Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, both published by the University of Michigan Press.

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A Professor's Rage: The Chilling True Story of Harvard PhD Amy Bishop, her Brother's Mysterious Death, and the Shooting Spree that Shocked the Nation by Michele R. McPhee.
 
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A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all.
But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined.
 
On February 13, 2010, Amy was charged with murder for opening fire in a staff meeting the day before, killing three colleagues and injuring others.
How could one woman's fury unleash such destruction?
While the campus massacre made national headlines, authorities began a thorough investigation and uncovered another chilling episode in Amy's past.
 
When she was twenty one, Amy fatally shot her teenage brother, Seth.
His death was ruled an accident and no charges were pressed.
But for many involved in the case, Amy's story didn't add up, and law enforcement officials suspected it was murder.
After the Huntsville rampage, the cold case was reopened and Amy would find herself charged with killing her own brother, murder in the first degree.
If Amy had been found guilty twenty four years earlier, three lives might have been saved.
 
A Professor's Rage is the chilling true story of an intelligent woman with a secret past, a past that would burst out in a shocking killing.

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