Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws
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For Every Mile of Road There is Two Miles of Ditch
by Dick Richardson
Addiction and adventure. Crime and punishment. Hardship and challenge. Dick Richardson has been to hell and back again, struggling through addiction and recovery and coming out on top. His life as a sailor introduced him to the rougher side of...
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The Gorilla Man Strangler Case
Serial Killer Earle Nelson by Alvin A. J. Esau
The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in...
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Swindler
A.E. Dawson and The Canadian Problem by Leslie Y. Dawson
Insurance salesman. Farm hand. Bay Street elite. Writer. Grandfather. International criminal. A.E. Dawson was all these things--and more. Part family memoir, part criminal history and part adventure story, Swindler journeys from the bucolic...
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Metamorphosis
My path to transformation by Yves Côté and Alana Abramson
How does an innocent five year old boy become a killer locked up for 23 hours a day in a super-maximum prison? How does this man survive nearly 32 years of incarceration and return to society as a compassionate, productive, and thoughtful...
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The Long Way Home
by Justin Sand
When James decides to go after his sister who had mysteriously disappeared from a good foster home, he enters a world that he could only grasp through the movies he had seen. The long way home is a book about one young man’s journey through the...
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1% Hatred
by Dan Rocheleau
In this gripping memoir, retired Ontario Provincial Police officer Dan Rocheleau shares highlights from his early life and his many years working for various departments in Ontario and Quebec. After his training at police college in Brampton and...
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Samsara
Between Two Worlds by Greg Murphy
Narrow escapes, near-death experiences and nail-biting anxiety follow international hash smuggler Jack O'Brian around the world during the seventies and eighties as he wends his way through the global drug subculture. What started out as a short...
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All Eyes On Me
A True Story of Addiction, Recovery, and Hope by Kevin Zdrill
Drugs, gangs, crime, doing time. Vincent Lillie desperately wanted to escape the cycle that was slowly killing him, and the first step was leaving the very gang he had depended on for love and acceptance. The price for escape? A beating so...
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Chase for Cocaine’s High at All Time Low
(Battle against cocaine being won?) by Tommy Khoa Dang Lieu
Law enforcement around the world have put a strangle-hold on the cocaine industry. As a result, drastic changes in the potency and physical properties of the cocaine available in the eastern Canadian market have occurred over the past 25+ years....
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It Will Get Tough
Cops & Bikers by Ralph "Teach" Elrod
The motorcycle club life style has been wild and woolly from the beginning. I've written about some wild and sometimes violent times. I have also tried to put a light on some of the corruption and underhanded dealings by some authorities. One...
