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Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

This book presents a unique series of graphic narratives which offer a new way to recount the lived experiences and life stories of women involved in transnational organised crime groups, from victims to perpetrators. Based on ethnographic interviews, and police files, academic Felia Allum and artist Anna Mitchell together seek to tell individual stories while also contributing to broader discourses about crime, power relations and victimhood. The four graphic stories cover cutting-edge issues in crime including County lines and British gangs, Nigerian syndicates, Italian Mafias, and Albanian drug gangs, and all stories effectively and forcefully depict the voices of those who are often voiceless and hidden in a more complex social and criminal phenomenon. This book is suitable for students and scholars in criminology, sociology, gender studies and comics studies, as well as for the general reader.

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The Chinese Triads: The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world of organized crime. Going by enigmatic names like the 14K Triad and the United Bamboo Gang, these criminal groups are enormous, with some organizations boasting memberships ranging in the tens of thousands. A powerful factor in China and throughout Asia, Triads are entrenched in society and the masters of multiple enterprises ranging from extortion, narcotics, prostitution, and white collar crime. Despite their origins in mainland China, the Triads are most powerful in Hong Kong and Taiwan; as an international organization, the Triads have expanded into North America and other Western countries. The various Triad organizations are different but share many similarities, including a hierarchical structure, exclusive membership, common commercial money-making activities, the use of violence as a tool and the codification of rituals for the group. Although the various Triad groups share a common Chinese ethnic origin, these groups are fiercely territorial and do not collaborate together too often. The modern Triads trace their lineage to a group called the Hung Mun (Heaven and Earth Association). Originating in the Qing Dynasty as a secret society focused on Han solidarity and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, these groups sought to overthrow the foreign Manchu Qing rulers. The Hung Mun positioned themselves as self-help organizations to disfranchised Chinese workers, providing them money loans and welfare when they were ignored by the government. From these secretive anti-Qing groups to their current existence as powerful organized crime groups, the Triads have continued to evolve and grow. Taking full advantage of technological changes, the Triads have become major players in cybercrime and the illegal seafood trade, forcing law enforcement to evolve in order to combat them. The Chinese Triads: ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194161/bk_acx0_194161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ranieri Andretti: A Second-Chance Mafia Romance Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min

From USA Today best-selling author Parker S. Huntington comes a steamy, slow-burn love story full of enemies-to-lovers banter and second chances.We were best friends, then we were enemies.Loved. Protected. Cherished. There was a time when Ranieri Andretti made me feel those things. That was before his family came after mine.He was supposed to forget me. We went our separate ways. It should have stayed like that. But now he's back in my life, and he's my new boss.I want to hate him. He's my ex-best friend. My tormentor. The head of the Andretti family. But no matter how hard I try...I can't stay away.Ranieri Andretti is a long stand-alone novella in the Five Syndicates mafia romance series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy York, Desireé Ketchum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160330/bk_acx0_160330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Spectral Shift: A Spectral Worlds Novel (Volume 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min

We were never alone. A prescient rendering of a dark cyberpunk future. A neon dystopia with a Lovecraftian flair. There are worlds around us that we cannot see...and some we cannot escape. In the future, parallel planes of existence and their inhabitants have become known to humanity. These are the spectral worlds. Abernathy Squire, an agent for the Homeland, is reluctant to come out of retirement. A century has passed since the Spectral Wars. The world has changed. The elite have fled to other planes, and those left in the sprawling megacities are ruled by the five syndicates. No longer hidden, the Spectral races now mingle with the forever-young mortals. But a friend and an artifact have gone missing, and this is his chance to settle an old score. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikolai Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122904/bk_acx0_122904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Renata Vitali: A Prequel to Damiano De Luca , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min

From USA Today best-selling author Parker S. Huntington comes a steamy, slow-burn love story full of enemies-to-lovers banter, set in high school.Damiano De Luca: a curse with no cure.Before he ruled the De Luca family, before he became the man everyone feared, before he scoured an empire in search of me, he chose me to ruin.I was innocent. An untainted princess. The heiress to the Vitali mafia throne.And I was in the wrong place at the wrong time when I met the wrong boy.My name is Renata Vitali...and this is not a love story.Warning: This story ends in a cliffhanger. Renata Vitali is a ~35,000-word prequel novella in the Five Syndicates mafia romance series. It can be heard before Damiano De Luca but does not need to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zachary Webber, Desireé Ketchum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160356/bk_acx0_160356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who Is Jeff Kinney? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min

Even when he was a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college his comic strip, Igdoof, was so popular that it spread to other universities! Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that claimed his art was unprofessional. Then an idea struck: Jeff would write a journal from the perspective of a child, illustrated with doodles just like a kid might do. And so the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was born - and it was a hit! In this biography, Jeff's brother, Patrick Kinney, provides a knowledgeable look at the life of this best-selling author/illustrator. From Jeff's childhood pranks to his job developing online games, kids will love the chance to learn more about the creator of the popular Wimpy Kid books. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramón de Ocampo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002050/bk_lili_002050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Floodgate: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min

Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one-man crusade against conspiracies he can't prove. Andy's investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick pickpockets, criminal syndicates, hired mercenaries, escaped convicts, sewer dwellers, and one sinister ice cream truck. At the same time, he must contend with a mystery closer to home: the true identity of his parents, his most unshakeable obsession. Understanding their past may be the key to Auction City's future as it teeters on the brink of chaos. If Andy can't solve this case, the Floodgate will fail...and his city will burn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007743/bk_brll_007743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Corrupt Money , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min

A rundown bingo hall. A deprived area of the North of England. A room housing computers. What are they used for? Why are they there? A local hacker, along with his sister, embarking on a plan to fiddle the jackpot in the bingo hall, stumble on the secret of just what the computers are used for. However, an organized crime syndicate that operates the computers is determined to hold onto the secret. But to take the hacker on, like the syndicates computers hiding within the dark web, will have ramifications no one could imagine. A modern day crime and mystery begins with petty crime that soon escalate's out of control when you enter the secret world of both on- and offline gambling. Yet, with events so real, it will be very hard to believe that what you are hearing cannot be happening already! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Waugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107271/bk_acx0_107271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who Killed the Killer: The Case of the Murdered Hood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min

Damn. My head hurt. This can't happen again. Of course, I'd said the same thing the two other times someone had used my dome for a kettledrum. But this time I'd had it. Three years in the business with no trouble and now I'd suffered five attacks in the last six months. I wasn't taking any more of it. I had squired Gustaf Mienke, a New York businessman reputed to have connections with crime syndicates, for a whirlwind week. Driving him around Dallas virtually wore me out. We visited, his choice of words, although few smiles witnessed our departure from at least a dozen places. Places and characters I might add that looked suspicious to say the least and I'd never been to or seen before. Finally, Gustaf left town and my life returned to something resembling normal, but not for long. A week later, I caught hell. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016285/bk_acx0_016285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Galactic Vice: A Jafla Base Vice Squad Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min

Corruption. Greed. Lust. Sins undercover Galactic Vice Detective Etch Knowles faces every day. Politicians on the take. Underground gambling. Sex trafficking. Another day at the office for Galactic Vice Lieutenant Angie McDade. Shaking down hustlers. Offering "protection" to bar owners. Cheating at tile games. Galactic Vice Detective Kalaka doesn't exactly play by the rules. A cargo barge filled with corpses. A potential war between crime syndicates. Traitors within the Galactic Vice. These are the nightmares the three must face. Using all of their resources and experience, they will fight to keep each other alive, even it means bending rules, busting heads, and breaking laws. But tossing regulations to the side and going rogue may not save them from an investigation that has doom and downfall written all over it. Can they solve the case before it becomes their last? Or will the operation fail and end up ripping their lives and Jafla Base apart.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew B. Wehrlen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110120/bk_acx0_110120_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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