An explosive true account of addiction, marketing and the making of an epidemic weaves together the story of Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, while, at the same time, a massive influx of black tar heroin took the county by ...

Now updated with a new chapter, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling true crime writer tells the chilling tale of how she came to learn that Ted Bundy, her close friend and colleague at a Seattle crisis hotline, was in fact a savage serial ...

This edition includes a valuable appendix of other writing by Du Bois, which sheds light on his attitudes and intentions.

Originally published: Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, c2010.

This is the true story of reporter Nellie Bly, who pretends to be insane, and manages to get herself committed into an insane asylum in the USA.

This is an examination of the Kennedy assassination and its meaning today for the struggle for peace.

Presents a firsthand account of organized crime showing its brutality and fascination.

A noted "New York Times" journalist presents the history of the Mafia's infamous Five Families, the campaign to eradicate them, and the Mob's refusal to die.

Recounts the experiences of John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer who stole rare orchids from a wild swamp in south Florida and sparked one of the country's most controversial environmental battles.

“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in ...