The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Reckless by Marele Day
39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier-of-fortune, opportunist, embezzler, hijacker. In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day is caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forges an unlikely bond with an internatio ...Show more
The Expert Witness-The Final Dose: Examinations of crimes, drugs and poisons by a forensic toxicologist by Allender William J Dr
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Drugs and poisons from a variety of sources have been used illegally for centuries and have an unfortunate, enduring fascination. People appear to be both attracted to them and at the same time repelled by them. Forensic medical scientist and toxicologist Dr William J. Allender is only too aware that al ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more