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Un parti politique au pouvoir pendant 15 ans. Des soupçons de corruption et de trafic d'influence. Une enquête colossale qui…
s'éternise. Un corps policier qui implose sur fond de guerre intestine. Est-ce que le parti politique de Jean Charest a vendu le pouvoir du gouvernement au plus offrant en échange de financement politique ? PLQ inc. révèle les déboires de l'enquête Mâchurer, menée par l'Unité permanente anticorruption. Depuis 2014, les enquêteurs de l'UPAC tentent en vain de faire la lumière sur les allégations de financement illégal au Parti libéral du Québec. L'équipe du Bureau d'enquête a eu accès à des sources hautement privilégiées et a analysé des milliers de documents d'enquête. Ils remontent ici le fil de l'une des plus ambitieuses investigations policières entreprises au Québec, levant le voile sur l'une des périodes les plus sombres de la politique québécoiseLe journaliste et le meurtrier
By Michael Finkel. 2006
En février 2002, Michael Finkel, grand reporter courageux au prestigieux New York Times et star montante du journalisme américain, est…
limogé de son poste pour avoir berné les lecteurs [...]. Réfugié chez lui dans le Montana, Finkel attend avec angoisse d'être cloué publiquement au pilori dans le journal par son rédacteur en chef quand un journaliste de L'Oregonian lui apprend qu'un Témoin de Jéhovah narcissique appelé Christian Longo, recherché pour le meurtre [...] et se faisant passer pour Michael Finkel, grand reporter au New York Times , vient d'être arrêté par le FBI sur une plage de Cancun, au Mexique. Ce livre est le récit extraordinaire et terrifiant, construit comme un thriller, de la dérive infernale de ce jeune Américain de la middle-class, happé par une spirale d'échecs, de faillites, de mensonges à sa famille et de meurtres pour lesquels il sera condamné en 2003 à la peine de mort. Tout au long de sa reconstitution minutieuse et captivante de la vie et des crimes de Christian Longo, Michael Finkel est à la recherche d'un scoop, d'un élément ou d'une vérité que le meurtrier aurait dissimulée lors de son procès. Il la trouvera. -- 4e de couvThe adversary: a story of monstrous deception
By Emmanuel Carrère. 2000
An account of the career of Jean-Claude Romand, who in 1993 murdered his wife, children, and parents. For eighteen years…
he had posed as a physician at the World Health Organization in Geneva, while defrauding--and perhaps killing--his elderly relatives. The author examines Romand's deception, looking for explanations for evil. Some strong language. 2000In the cellar
By Jan Reemtsma. 1999
A wealthy, noted German intellectual describes his harrowing 1996 abduction, the thirty-three days he spent chained in a cellar during…
ransom negotiations, his release, and the onslaught of reporters. Throughout, he explores the effect the ordeal has had on his psyche. Some violence. 1999Halfway heaven: diary of a Harvard murder
By Melanie Thernstrom. 1997
In 1995 Ethiopian Harvard student Sinedu Tadesse stabbed to death her Vietnamese immigrant roommate, Trang Phuong Ho, and then hung…
herself. Excerpts from Tadesse's journals reveal a woman so troubled by loneliness that Ho's decision to move out caused Tadesse to kill. Some strong language and some violenceMidnight in the garden of good and evil: a Savannah story
By John Berendt. 1994
In the 1980s, New Yorker Berendt began visiting Savannah, Georgia. Enchanted by the city and its inhabitants, he spent more…
and more time there. He introduces Savannah and the hodgepodge of friends he made, especially Jim Williams, an antique dealer active in the restoration of Savannah. He also discusses the murder on May 2, 1981, for which Williams went to trial--four times. Strong languageI have lived in the monster
By Robert Ressler. 1997
A former FBI agent and advisor on serial killings profiles and analyzes a number of notorious cases in the United…
States, Japan, and England. Discusses investigative techniques and includes personal interviews with mass murderers John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey DahmerThe new jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism
By Simon Reeve. 1999
British journalist traces the capture of Pakistan-born Muslim extremist Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 bombing of the World Trade…
Center, among other crimes. Examines Yousef's relationship to Osama bin Laden, the creation of the al Qaeda terrorist network, and the dangers of jihad against the West. 1999Shallow grave in Trinity County
By Harry Farrell. 1997
In April of 1955, Berkeley junior high student Stephanie Bryan disappeared on her way home from school. California journalist Farrell…
describes the events that happened after her purse was found in the basement of a young Alameda couple. The husband, Burton Abbott, was soon accused of her murderMurder on the highway: the Viola Liuzzo story
By Beatrice Siegel. 1993
The author tells of Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five from Detroit who felt compelled to join the 1965…
civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. After marching with blacks to obtain their right to vote, Liuzzo gave a fellow marcher a ride home. Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed Liuzzo as she was driving, making her the first white woman killed in the movement. For senior high and older readersThe last outlaws: The desperate final days of the dalton gang
By Tom Clavin. 2023
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York…
Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gang. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves before graduating to robbing banks and trains. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted their boldest and bloodiest raid yet: robbing two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously. As Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton and Bill Power and Dick Broadwell crossed the plaza to enter the two buildings, the outlaws were recognized by townspeople, who raised the alarm. Citizens armed themselves with shotguns and six-shooters from nearby hardware stores and were locked and loaded when the thieves emerged from the banks. The ensuing gun battle was a lead-filled firefight of epic proportions. As the smoke cleared, eight men lay dead––including four of the five members of the doomed Dalton Gang. For the first time ever, the full story of the Dalton Gang's life of crime, culminating in one of the Wild West's most violent events, are chronicled in detail––a last gruesome gasp of the age of gunfights. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressJumpman: The making and meaning of michael jordan
By Johnny Smith. 2023
How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most…
revered basketball player in America, it wasn't enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero. Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan's career—winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season—sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a "mystique" that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable. Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember todayBeyond all reason: my life with Susan Smith
By David Smith. 1995
Smith looks at his life before and after the death of his two sons, Michael and Alex. He explains how…
he and Susan met and discusses their rocky marriage, their separation, and finally the days leading up to and following the devastating news that his wife had murdered their two sons. Some strong language. BestsellerThe search for the Green River killer
By Carlton Smith. 1991
In the early 1980s, the Strip in Washington state had become an outdoor sex market. Suddenly women were disappearing--their bodies…
turning up in the Green River. By the time the third body was found in August 1982, the Green River police department knew a serial killer was responsible. By the end of the 1980s, forty-nine bodies had been found and the police still had no suspects. Violence. BestsellerBlood on their hands: Murder, corruption, and the fall of the murdaugh dynasty
By Mandy Matney. 2023
The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of…
the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney. Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn't right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding, the brutal double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh rocketed Alex Murdaugh onto the international stage. From the newsroom to the courtroom, to the kitchen-table studio where Mandy recorded her #1 Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Blood on Their Hands is a propulsive true crime saga, an empathetic work of investigative journalism, and an excoriation of the "good old boy" systems that enabled a network of criminalsDesperados: Latin drug lords, U.S. lawmen, and the war America can't win
By Elaine Shannon. 1989
A journalist's research into the politics of drugs and the contradictions among the United States' domestic policies, its economic interests,…
and its national security concerns. The focus is on the Drug Enforcement Administration and specifically on the disappearance and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in February 1985. BestsellerLines and shadows
By Joseph Wambaugh. 1984
In this true crime story, Wambaugh focuses on the Border Crime Task Force, an eighteen-month experiment conducted by the San…
Diego Police. This task force foot-patrolled the Mexican-U.S. border between Tijuana and San Diego in an effort to stop the gangs who mug, rob, rape, and murder Mexican, illegal aliens. Powerful and compassionate. Strong language. Violence. Bestseller 1984The best minds: A story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions
By Jonathan Rosen. 2023
"Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." — The New York Times "Immensely emotional and unforgettably…
haunting." — Wall Street Journal One of The Washington Post ’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still in the hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and still battling delusions when he decided to trade his halfway house for the top law school in the country. He not only managed to graduate, but after his extraordinary story was featured in The New York Times , sold a memoir for a large sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widelyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In "one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation" (Kate Fagan, #1 New…
York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was invited to join a secretive, lavishly funded new team, dubbed the Nike Oregon Project. Coached by distance running legend Alberto Salazar, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Kara was soon winning a World Championship medal, going to the Olympics, and standing on the podium at the New York and Boston marathons, just like her coach had done. But behind the scenes, Salazar was hiding dark secrets. He pushed the limits of anti-doping rules and created what Kara experienced as a culture of abuse, the extent of which she reveals in her book for the first time. Meanwhile, Nike stood by Alberto for years and proved itself capable of shockingly misogynistic corporate practices. The Longest Race is an unforgettable story that is "as interesting as it is important" (Molly Huddle, two-time Olympian) and also a crucial call to action. Kara became a crusader for female athletes and a key witness helping to get Salazar banned from coaching at the Olympic level. The Longest Race will leave you "motivated, empowered, and ready to take on the world" (Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medalist) as it reveals how Kara broke through the fear of losing everything, bucked powerful forces to take control of her life and career, and reclaimed her love of runningAnansi's gold: The man who looted the west, outfoxed washington, and swindled the world
By Yepoka Yeebo. 2023
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."— The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." —…
Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece—if only you would "invest" in Blay-Miezah's fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and '80s, he and his accomplices—including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon's former attorney general—scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam "one of the most fascinating—and lucrative—in modern history." In Anansi's Gold , Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call "history" writes itself into being, one lie at a time