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[Daveo]

No, Daddy, Don't ?: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge

by Irene Pence.

 

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The horrifying true story of an abusive husband who committed the ultimate act of violence and betrayal by murdering his two young daughters, as their mother helplessly listened on the telephone.

 

[Daveo]

Inside the Firm: The Untold Story of the Krays' Reign of Terror

by Tony Lambrianou.

 

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Throughout the 1960's, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang.

He had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organization whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day.

But he was not just an observer and his role in the Kray story ultimately led to him serving 15 years in prison.

Inside the Firm tells, with searing honesty, his violent history with the Krays, and the horrors of his subsequent imprisonment in top security institutions.

In exorcising his ghosts, he reveals an account that is more impartial and more terrifying than Ronnie and Reggie ever could have written.

From the murder of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and the mystery of his undiscovered body, to the role of the Kray legacy in Britain’s prisons today, here is the last confession of a gangster determined to turn his back on his brutal past.

 

[Skalliwag]

No, Daddy, Don't ?: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge

 

 

by Irene Pence.

 

 

 

 

 

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The horrifying true story of an abusive husband who committed the ultimate act of violence and betrayal by murdering his two young daughters, as their mother helplessly listened on the telephone.

 

Please tell me that's fiction.

[Daveo]

Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. by Jeremy Scahill.

 

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In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America’s new covert wars.

The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.

Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA’s Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through black budgets, Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy.

Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that "the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time.

From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America’s global killing machine.

He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate.

And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.

As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk, we are changing as a nation.

Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as suspected militants.

Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.

 

[Daveo]

Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck.

 

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“Age can never dull this kind of writing,of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war.

Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck focuses on the people as opposed to the battles, portraying everyone from the guys in the bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour.

He eats and drinks with soldiers behind enemy lines, talks with them, and fights beside them.

First published in book form in 1958, these writings, now with a new introduction by Mark Bowden, create an unforgettable portrait of life in wartime that continues to resonate with truth and humanity.

 

[Daveo]

Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

by Sgt. Jack Coughlin.

 

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Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America's military muscle to the enemy's front door.

In twenty years of active service, he has accumulated one of the most impressive records in the Corps, ranging through many of the world's hot spots.

During Operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty four hour period.

 

In Shooter, Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders.

This is not a heroic battlefield memoir, but the careful study of an exceptional man as he carries forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. military.

 

[Daveo]

The Day John Died by Christopher Andersen.

 

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"It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique.

It's my family my mother, my sister, my father.

We're a family like any other."

Where were You the day John died?

Like his father's assassination and the death of Princess Diana, the tragic death of JFK Jr. on July 16, 1999, is one of those defining moments, an event that moved us so deeply, we will never forget where we were when we heard the news.

 

A full year after the plane crash that took the lives of John, his wife, Carolyn, and Carolyn's sister Lauren, millions remain in shock.

With good reason.

No other American had lived his entire life in the spotlight, from his rambunctious toddlerhood in the Kennedy White House and heartbreaking salute to his father's coffin to his daredevil Sexiest Man Alive Bachelor days and his final years as a devoted husband and respected magazine publisher poised on the brink of fatherhood and a brilliant political career.

 

Now, in the manner of his headline making #1 bestseller The Day Diana Died and his two bestselling books about John's parents, Jack and Jackie and Jackie After Jack, Christopher Andersen draws on important sources, many talking here for the first time, to re create in vivid and startling detail the events leading up to that fateful night off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

Among the revelations: How false weather reports from the FAA led to the crash that killed John, Carolyn, and Lauren.

Never-before known details about John's complex relationship with his mother, his intense bond with his sister, Caroline, and his dealings with his star crossed Kennedy cousins.

The state of his stormy marriage to the glamorous and headstrong Carolyn Bessette and where it was headed.

The other harrowing moments when John nearly lost his life.

The truth about John's wild younger years, including his affairs with Madonna and Daryl Hannah.

How JFK Jr. came to view his father and his family's political legacy and his feelings about a political career of his own.

An inspiring, sympathetic, and compelling look at one of the most remarkable young men of our time, The Day John Died is more than just the definitive biography of JFK Jr.

It is a bittersweet saga of triumph, love, loss, fate and promise unfulfilled.

It is the story of America's son.

 

[Daveo]

Please tell me that's fiction.

The World has many a fucked up minds, not surprising you may think, this type of TRUE CRIME has been going on for years, thankfully not so common but History has many many such Crimes.

[Daveo]

Hope to Die (Alex Cross) by James Patterson.

 

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Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career.

Cross's family his loving wife, Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children have been ripped away.

Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this madman what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life.

The stakes have never been higher, what will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?

 

Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw dropping story in motion.

Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish.

 

[Daveo]

Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule.

 

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An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed Bachelor turned devoted family man; and Liysa, an acclaimed surf photographer, loving mother, and aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. But few, including Chris, had seen Liysa's other side, her controlling behavior and dark moods, her insatiable hunger for money and property.

And no one anticipated the fatal outcome of a family camping trip in an Oregon forest. Liysa soon revealed herself as a victim of domestic abuse that culminated at the campsite, where she shot Chris in self defense.

But crime scene evidence led detectives to wonder if Liysa was a killer, not a victim.

Her controversial trial stunned all who thought they knew her.

A lifetime of sociopathic manipulations and lies had been expertly hidden behind her façade of perfection, as was her rage to destroy any obstacle to her ultimate happiness, even if it was the man she vowed to love forever.

 

Also by Ann Rule;

Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule.

 

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In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty nine young women.

The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has been an intimate part of Ann Rule's life, with some of the corpses found only a mile or so from where she lived and raised her own daughters.

She did not know the killer, but he apparently knew her and attended many of her book signings.

For twenty one years, the killer carried out his self described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil.

His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies made him far more dangerous than any infamous multiple murderer in the annals of crime.

A few men, including a law student, a truck painter, and a taxi driver eventually emerged as the prime suspects among an unprecedented forty thousand scrutinized by the Green River Task Force.

Still, there was no physical evidence linking any of them to the murders until 2001, when investigators used a new DNA process on a saliva sample they had preserved since 1987, with stunning results.

Ann Rule has followed the case since July 1982, when the first body that of teenager Wendy Lee Coffield, was found in the Green River, snagged on pilings under a bridge.

Rule has compiled voluminous files, working through an incredible 95,000 pages of official police records, transcripts, photographs, and maps, winnowing out the chaff and identifying what is truly important.

Over the years, she gained unparalleled access to all the key players, from King County Sheriff Dave Reichert to those close to the killer and his victims.

When finally apprehended and convicted, the killer made a detailed confession of his twisted sexual obsessions that will shock even the most jaded reader.

Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected.

It is also the story of his quarry of who these young girls were, and who they might have become.

A chilling look at the darkest side of human nature, this is the most important and most personal book of Ann Rule's long career.

 

Edited January 9, 2017 by Daveo

[Daveo]

The People Next Door by Christopher Ransom.

 

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A PERFECT FAMILY

Mick and Amy Nash are an ordinary couple leading ordinary lives. And then, into the house next door move the Renders, beautiful, charming, perfect . . . and not at all what they pretend to be.

AN EVIL SECRET

Too late Mick learns that something is deeply, darkly wrong with the neighbours. Who are these people? Where did they come from? And what are they hiding in the basement?

A SHOCKING TWIST ENDING

As death and darkness descend on the neighbourhood, only Mick can save his family and expose the horrifying truth about the people next door, a secret already hailed as the most electrifying twist ending in years.

 

[Daveo]

The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima

by John C. Shively.

 

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Iwo Jima: two words that will forever bring to mind the thirty six days of continual, chaotic combat in which the U.S.

Marines fought the entrenched Japanese for every inch of the tiny volcanic island.

When it was over, more than twenty six thousand Americans were killed or wounded, and only slightly more than two hundred Japanese defenders survived.

Twenty seven Medals of Honor were awarded, many posthumously.

Jim Craig was a platoon commander with the Marines on Iwo Jima. This is his story, as told to his nephew John C. Shively.

In a particularly vivid and exciting account of some of the most intense fighting of the Pacific War, the immediacy of the story is heightened by the detail that Shively’s research has added to Craig’s recollections.

The result will pull you onto the beach, into the foxhole, and over Mount Suribachi with those who lived, fought, and died on Iwo Jima.

 

[Daveo]

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[Daveo]

Get Even published September 27, 2016 by Martina Cole.

 

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Playing grown ups, the future is theirs for the taking.

 

Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart.

Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons.

 

It leaves a stain on her heart for ever.

 

But one night Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL.

But it is his last.

He is found murdered, beaten to death in an act of brutality that shocks even the police and Sharon never knows why.

 

Old wounds will surface.

 

Now, twenty years later, Sharon is about to find out the truth, such a crime cannot go unpunished, revenge is long overdue.

The time has come to...

 

GET EVEN.......

 

[Daveo]

Dangerous By Moonlight by Leslie Thomas.

 

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Lost, baffled, and alone in Willesden mean streets, Detective Constable Dangerous Davies is up against the cream of criminality. Newspaper theft (the work of organized crime?), household robbery (including cheese from the fridge), it's all grist to his mill.

When Dangerous is beaten up, yet again, at a European Friendship dinner dance he reluctantly takes some sick leave.

Recuperating in Bournemouth he is approached by a member of the local Widows' Luncheon Club.

She wants him to find out the truth about her husband's disappearance.

Dangerous declines, it's against the rules, back in Willesden a further beating helps change his mind.

So starts a double life of regular casework and moonlighting as Dangerous lurches into a mystery fit to confuse the great Holmes himself..

 

[Daveo]

The Stranger by Harlan Coben.

 

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Coben's most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well placed lie can help build a wonderful life and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.

 

The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store.

His identity is unknown.

His motives are unclear.

His information is undeniable.

Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world.

 

Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream, a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life.

 

Then he runs into the Stranger, when he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all.

Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne's deception, and realizes that if he does not make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives, it will end them.

 

[Daveo]

Dead Set by Will Carver.

 

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Following on from Girl 4 and The Two, Detective Inspector January David is back in a fantastic new thriller.

 

Detective Inspector January David doesn’t love me, he loves his missing sister, he loves his job.

But he doesn’t love me, not in the way he should, I am his wife, I am still his wife.

And I will do anything for him.

No matter what I have to sacrifice.

 

[Daveo]

The Kind Worth Killing: by Peter Swanson.

 

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A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?”

From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and is soon to be a major movie directed by Agnieszka Holland.

 

In a tantalizing set up reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith’s classic Strangers on a Train… On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner.

Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves.

Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him.

Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start, he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit, a contrast that once inflamed their passion, but has now become a cliché.

 

But their game turns a little darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda for what she’s done.

Lily, without missing a beat, says calmly, “I’d like to help.”

After all, some people are the kind worth killing, like a lying, stinking, cheating spouse.

 

Back in Boston, Ted and Lily’s twisted bond grows stronger as they begin to plot Miranda's demise.

But there are a few things about Lily’s past that she has not shared with Ted, namely her experience in the art and craft of murder, a journey that began in her very precocious youth.

 

Suddenly these co conspirators are embroiled in a chilling game of cat and mouse, one they both cannot survive, with a shrewd and very determined detective on their tail.

 

[George810]

Wow, people talking about books rather than (or at least in addition to) mongering.  This is Great!!!!

Thanks for posting and being here Daveo.  Next trip will certainly be stopping by.  I always just donate them to the condo I stayed at, or leave them in a restaurant or massage shop for someone to pickup. 

I am not anti-e-reader, but still have not bought one because there is something better about the words being written on a page. 

Once people bring a book to them for their next foot massage, they will likely become more into reading...and probably get more foot massages too.   After girls, reading and a FM is my most common activity during my trips.

[Daveo]

Wow, people talking about books rather than (or at least in addition to) mongering.  This is Great!!!!

Thanks for posting and being here Daveo.  Next trip will certainly be stopping by.  I always just donate them to the condo I stayed at, or leave them in a restaurant or massage shop for someone to pickup. 

I am not anti-e-reader, but still have not bought one because there is something better about the words being written on a page. 

Once people bring a book to them for their next foot massage, they will likely become more into reading...and probably get more foot massages too.   After girls, reading and a FM is my most common activity during my trips.

Thanks George, yes life in Pattaya particularly for ex-pats is about living and enjoying, a good read can be part of that enjoyment and for many it is, I enjoy sharing what we offer as many have positive comments towards it, PS please join our Group; https://www.facebook.com/groups/Canterburybookshoppattaya/

The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne.

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A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.

But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity that she, in fact, is Lydia, their world comes crashing down once again.

As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. 

When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, Sarah finds herself tortured by the past, what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?

 

[Daveo]

Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes.

 

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The living embodiment of The Beatles and a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the patriarch of pop. In this authoritative biography, acclaimed author and journalist Howard Sounes creates the most accurate and extensive profile of McCartney ever built, leaving no stone unturned, and no shadow unexplored.

 

He is the torch bearer of the Beatles, the greatest band in pop and one of the most closely studied stars in show business.

But surprises and Secrets still linger in the life of Sir Paul McCartney.

 

In FAB, his full story is told for the first time.

 

Acclaimed author Howard Sounes spent more than two years investigating every aspect of Sir Paul’s life and work, including interviewing over 200 people.

The result is the richest and more comprehensive biography of McCartney ever written.

 

Uniquely, FAB pays equal attention to the story of Paul McCartney both in the Beatles and post-Beatles, creating a unique narrative spanning the arc of the artist’s life.

FAB culminates in the sensational human story of Sir Paul’s calamitous marriage to Heather Mills, which is fully revealed for the first time.

Sounes proves a judicious critic of the music of an iconic star while also delivering a superb psychological portrait of the man.

 

[Daveo]

The Weapons Merchants by Bernt Engelmann.

 

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A True Account Of Illegal Traffic In Death Dealing Arms By Individuals And Governments.

Published 1968

 

[Daveo]

Over the Moon: My Autobiography by David Essex.

 

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As a young schoolboy, David Essex dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, and was signed up by his beloved West Ham United.

But as a teenager he developed a passion for music that set him on a very different path, and ultimately led to super stardom.

It wasn't, however, an easy start.

Scraping a living on the edges of show business was a hard slog, and he endured many disappointments.

Then aged 23, he went along to an audition for a new musical called Godspell and won the role of Jesus that was to shoot him to fame. Within a year he was starring in smash hit film, That'll Be the Day, and had written and recorded his first number one single "Rock On." It was the start of Essex Mania, and a long journey of undreamt of adventure.

From Godspell to EastEnders it's been an amazing life, and here is David's full incredible story in his own words.

 

Edited January 10, 2017 by Daveo

[Daveo]

So Many Girls! So Little Time! by Chuck Wilson.

 

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Your guide to Romantic adventures in Thailand.

 

[Daveo]

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

 

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Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'.

Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.

Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family.

Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will not wish to echo Thackeray’s famous praise, having read the first monthly part ‘Bravo Dickens’.