Wensley Clarkson Books

This is the extraordinary story of how Charlie Wilson - renowned as one of the leaders of the Great Train Robbery gang - turned his back on so-called traditional crime to become the underworld's original narco by masterminding a multi-billion dollar drugs network in partnership with the original cocaine cowboy, Pablo Escobar.Wilson secretly helped turn cocaine into the Western world's number one recreational drug of choice. Secret Narco unravels the bullet riddled, never-before-told history of South Londoner Wilson's cocaine empire and his forays into the deadliest killing fields of South America. Bestselling author Wensley Clarkson's meticulously researched story features interviews with many of Wilson's friends, family members and enemies on both sides of the law enforcement divide, as well as associates of Pablo Escobar.Secret Narco also reveals the final, tragic circumstances behind Wilson and Escobar's bloody deaths, and how their twisted 'partnership' proved that gangsters never rest in peace.

The inside story of the life and death of Britain's criminal kingpin and the empire he built

Bold, pioneering, and always unpredictable, Quentin Tarantino is the ultimate movie director with a fascinating story. This gripping account of his life and times describes a film buff determined to join the industry who studied, wrote scripts, and polished his already vast knowledge of all things cinematic by working in a video store. Tarantino stunned the world with his debut Reservoir Dogs, and his rise to fame is chronicled, as the hits kept on coming with Pulp Fiction , Jackie Brown , and Kill Bill . The whole of Tarantino's dazzling career, his motormouth reputation, and his latest chiller, Grind House , are revealed in a book which draws on sources close to the director, including Connie, Tarantino's mother.

The Hatton Garden Heist captured the public's imagination more than another other crime since The Great Train Robbery. It was supposed to make a fortune for a team of old time professional criminals. Their last hurrah. A final lucrative job that would send the old codgers off on happy retirements to the badlands of Spain and beyond. It seemed to be the stuff of legends. Tens of millions of pounds worth of valuables grabbed from secretive safety deposit boxes in a vault beneath one of the most famous gold and jewellery districts in the world. But where did it all go wrong for this band of old time villains? And why did the gang's bid to pull off the world's biggest burglary turn into a deadly game of cat and mouse featuring the police and London's most dangerous crime lords? Nobody is better placed to reveal the full story of the Hatton Garden Raid than Britain's best-connected true crime writer Wensley Clarkson. Through his unique contacts inside the London underworld, he's persuaded those who really know the truth to reveal the chilling details behind Britain's biggest ever burglary.

Malcolm Deakin, one-time Falklands hero, is a hitman; a classic gangland shooter with twelve ice-cold killings to his name on the streets of London. Each one of these twelve killings is committed without remorse; Deakin does not give a second thought to his hapless victims. But then along comes target number thirteen—it's an old school friend, and as the hitman begins researching the contract he gets the nasty feeling that his intended victim is about to turn the tables on him. The Hitman is set on the same streets and supposedly respectable suburbs where real-life public enemy number one Kenneth Noye made his name. This novel is an authentic, nail-biting, roller-coaster ride through the full, face-on brutality of southeast London's underworld.

For fans of Christopher Berry-Dee's Talking with Serial Killers series, this chilling new book explores the dark heart of Russia. For decades, it has been assumed that the United States of America was the serial killer capital of the world. Now, criminologists believe that Russia (and previously the Soviet Union) has been, secretly, the biggest home of serial killers for almost a century. In Serial Killers of Russia, bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson reveals the inside stories and gruesome details behind the country's most notorious and previously unknown murderers. Using information from a vast range of new and archive sources, Clarkson tells stories of the dangerous, the devious and the truly shocking, and tackles why the nation has become a breeding ground for humanity's most evil. These are the most horrifying cases from the darkest corners of Russia.

Billy Hill was Britain's first celebrity gangster. Born in London's King's Cross, Hill was a charming character with a deadly edge who elevated himself to the top of the pantheon of organised crime. By the early 50's he had control of the city's gambling rackets & masterminded a heist that set the template for the Great Train Robbery.

To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.But accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors...According to Terry, Theresa - no longer the petite brunette she once was - had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters.Of beating, torturing and killing her own flesh and blood...Terry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Suesan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan.She could be one of the most evil murderesses of our time...It took Terry five agonizing years to convince authorities to investigate her grisly accounts of burning flesh, starvation and torture...of a mother from hell, so sadistic and so deranged, she had become her children's own executioner.

This book delves into Mexico's criminal underbelly to tell the stories of the psychopathic loners, professional narco assassins and the overwhelmed law enforcement trying desperately to hunt them down.

The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys.

Kenneth Noye is a criminal mastermind and millionaire. The man at the top of organized crime in Britain fled the country after the murder of young motorist Stephen Cameron on the M25. His extradition from Spain caused banner headlines across the country. Bestselling investigative journalist Wensley Clarkson has penetrated the inner sanctum of Noye's closest family and criminal associates to paint a chilling portrait of a brilliant master criminal. Fully updated for the paperback, Clarkson details exactly how Noye continues to control his extensive criminal empire from behind bars.

Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses.

Young, Galmorous and Sexy, She Was Every Man's Fantasy...And A Nightmare of Death For Her Husband.She Hid Her Criminal Past...Prominent Indiana attorney Jimmy Grund thought he'd found the woman of his dreams when he wed his second wife Susan. But beneath the silky blond society lady lurked a calculating, evil-tempered seductress whose murderous future was about to rival her sordid past,She Plotted A Brutal Murder...While she hid her previous marriages and an appalling crime from Jimmy, she was soon plotting to get her hands on his fortune. When Jimmy Grund finally found out the truth about his wife, he told her he was divorcing her. But no one left Susan Grund.She Killed Her Husband With A Gun Stolen From His Own Son...all of Peru, Indiana was stunned when it was revealed the fatal bullet came from a gun stolen from young David Grund. Yet even that paled next to Susan's incredible testimony that she had carries on a two-year affair with the innocent teenager, who denied the affair and was not implicated in the crime.Here is the story of a real femme fatale, who spun a web of deceit and murder that shocked an entire town.

True stories of police corruption, bent coppers and the secret units who hunt them.

Ever since the collapse of the extradition treaty with the UK in the late 1970s, Spain's southern coastal strip of the Costa Del Sol has been a safe haven for criminals. Drug smuggler Howard Marks; Ronnie Knight and Clifford Saxe, both involved in the $6 million Security Express raid of 1983, and Kenneth Noye, eventually convicted for a road rage murder, are some of those whose dramatic stories are told in this thrilling account. Spain's unique status became a thing of the past when the governments agreed fast-track extraditions. But now there's a new threat. These days, drug dealers make runs over to the tip of Africa in nearby Morocco, some meeting gruesome ends at the hands of rivals, and unscrupulous property barons hatch dubious deals to provide homes for the rapidly expanding population, much of which is made up of UK ex-pats. This is the fascinating history of the criminals' favourite playground.

Dvojkniha: Portrét od boku: Zasvěcená sonda do života a tvorby režiséra a scénáristy Quentina Tarantina. Q. Tarantino: Pulp Fiction (scénář)

Dvacet strhujících příběhů žen, které si vyrovnaly účty s muži.

Skutečné zločiny. Autor se pokusil odhalit vnitřní pocity osob zapletených do těžkých zločinů.

Dvanáct příběhů,které se skutečně udály a v nichž hlavní roli hráli vraždící doktoři. Pohnutky se případ od případu liší a různorodá je i škála obětí.Někdy jde o předem promyšlený zločin,jindy o zabití v afektu.Nejčastějšími obětmi jsou manželky vrahů.Manžele-lékaři je podezírají z nevěry nebo se jich potřebují zbavit proto,že si sami našli milenku.Ojedinělé nejsou ani případy,kdy doktor zabije svou ženu,která mu dělala ze života peklo,v návalu vzteku,či dokonce v sebeobraně.vražděni jsou ovšem i nezdární synové,pacienti,na jejichž životní pojistce je možno zbohatnout,a nechybí ani případ vraždy z vilnosti.Všechny zločiny,o kterých se zde píše,mají společný rys:naprosto chladnokrevné chování po činu a dokonalé zahlazení stop.

Poutavě napsaný životopis Mela Gibsona, vydaný už v roce 1993, takže popisuje jen určitý úsek hercova života. Nevadí. Kromě profesního, filmového světa nahlížíme i do jeho šťavnatého soukromí nebo poznáváme některé jeho osobní problémy, politické i jiné názory a postoje. Kniha se snaží o nestrannost a nevyhýbá se ani některým slabostem, například zmiňuje jeho náladovost a vztah k alkoholu. Mel Gibson, kdysi pasovaný na nejvíc sexy muže na celém světě, je moje dětská láska a jak je z knihy patrno, nelíbil se jen mně. Podle jednoho režiséra byl prý až příliš hezký na to, aby mu do filmu našli odpovídající partnerku. Slušelo mu to ve filmu Bounty ve dvojici s krásnou tahitskou středoškolačkou Tevaite a zajímalo mě, jestli v rajském prostředí navzájem podlehli svému kouzlu. I to je v knize osvětleno, včetně dalšího osudu této plaché krásky. I když byl ženatý, ženy po něm šílely, dokonce si před ním a jeho známými jedna žena pořezala v restauraci své zápěstí! Kromě drbů má životopis i serióznější stránku. Kniha skvěle, barvitě popisuje prostředí Hollywoodu a dobře vystihuje hercovu osobnost, postoj k práci i popularitu v mládí, která se i přes nesporný talent tehdy neoddělitelně opírala o jeho vzhled. Pro jeho fanynky i fanoušky doporučená četba, poskytuje poměrně ucelený pohled na tohoto známého umělce (v mladších letech). Pěkně zpracováno, včetně barevných fotografií.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (* 2. října 1951), známý spíš pod svým uměleckým jménem Sting, je anglický hudebník a občasný herec z Newcastle upon Tyne. Než se v roce 1985 vydal na sólovou dráhu, byl hlavním zpěvákem, skladatelem, a baskytaristou rockové skupiny sedmdesátých až osmdesátých let The Police.