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  The California Kid - From USC...

  Alex Cody Foster, Owen Hanson

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  You've read the shocking one-sided tale of international drug kingpin Owen Hanson in Rolling Stone, VICE, and the LA Times—but now he's ready to tell his side of the story. 
   
   
   
  A surfer kid from Redondo Beach, California, Owen Hanson was still in his twenties when he found himself the leader of a multi-million-dollar criminal empire. What began as an attempt to fit in with the rich kids at the University of Southern California soon grew into gambling and loan sharking, which then opened the door to drug trafficking and money laundering. Hanson wasn't just involved in this stuff—he excelled at it. Living the fast-paced lifestyle of the rich and famous, Hanson felt he was finally making his father proud, never mind the questionable ethics and obvious danger of it all. But with the cartel, a serious drug-abuse problem, and the pursuit of the FBI all threatening to overtake him, it wouldn't be long before his lifestyle caught up with him. 
   
   
   
  The California Kid follows Owen from his roots as a USC star athlete from a broken home, where his idolization of the rich and famous began, to his descent down a dangerous path where he would stop at nothing to earn the love and acceptance of his absent mother and the respect of his father. The story that follows is almost too wild to believe—but Owen bears the twenty-one-year sentence to prove it.

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  The Lucky Laundry

  Nathan Lynch

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  How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. 
    
  Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime Fighter Award. 
  In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks.  
  Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates running drugs, trafficking guns and people, arming terrorists and subverting government controls are desperate to put a legitimate face on their wealth. Washing dirty money, moving it around the globe, making it look legitimate is where the action is for both criminals and the authorities chasing them. 
  Australia is awash with dirty money. It flows through our economy, keeps banks running, powers big business, puts coffee on restaurant tables, seeps into clubs, pubs, sport, the art world and anywhere that value is moved. It infiltrates real estate, costs billions in policing, and takes a terrible toll on Australian lives. What law enforcement agencies might lack in legislation and political will they make up for with sheer resourcefulness. When they can't get at the masterminds and bigwigs, they have honed tactics that intercept the flow of illicit cash and aim to drive a wedge between crooks and their ill-gotten wealth. 
  In The Lucky Laundry, financial crime expert Nathan Lynch delves deep inside this hidden world to explain how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people - and tainted Australian democracy. He opens the curtain on the hidden world of financial intelligence, where crooks and spooks play a cat-and-mouse game inside the world's black money markets. 
  Enter the realm of the agents and undercover operatives who defend our democracy against the corrosive force of billions of dirty dollars.

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  Empire of Orgasm - Sex Power and...

  Ellen Huet

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  A cautionary tale of sex and salvation for the wellness generation: how orgasmic meditation turned into a cult.
  OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts for-profit wellness boom, the company was unwavering in its faith in orgasmic meditation, or OM, a fifteen-minute practice featuring a woman being clitorally stimulated by a clothed, usually male partner. Nicole Daedone, the group’s magnetic and cunning founder, envisioned a world where OM was as widespread as yoga. But Daedone’s vision came with a price: behind the militant loyalty she inspired and her millions of dollars of sales was what former members describe as a cult of manipulation, abuse, and coercion driven by a relentless quest for control. And by the time the FBI showed up at her door in 2023 with an indictment alleging she conspired to commit forced labor, even Daedone herself was no longer safe.
  Building on the viral Bloomberg article that exposed the dark side of OneTaste and Daedone, Ellen Huet’s Empire of Orgasm is a deeply reported and cinematic chronicle of how a boundary-pushing wellness program became a cult that, according to dozens of witnesses, ruthlessly exploited its members. Huet, the undeniable authority on the group, reveals how, in demanding absolute fealty to Daedone as a path to enlightenment and healing, OneTaste pushed its followers past their limits―sexually, emotionally, financially―and left many of their lives in shambles.
  A riveting saga and a nuanced exploration of the mechanics of manipulation, Empire of Orgasm is an extraordinary account of wellness gone wrong.

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  Cannibal Killers - Monsters with...

  Moira Martingale

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  Anthropophagy – humans eating their fellow-humans – creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascination. When the perpetrator is a murderer – most commonly a sadistic serial killer – the crime is not only shocking, but also bewildering. 
  Moira Martingale’s comprehensive study, Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters, was originally written in 1993, when the Internet was in its infancy, when few homes had computers and when the character Hannibal Lecter from the book and movie The Silence of the Lambs was regarded as an entirely fictional character, with no real-world counterparts or inspirations. The book demonstrated that this was an erroneous assumption. Translated into several languages and widely used as a resource by students studying for criminology degrees, this seminal work tracked the phenomenon of cannibalistic murderers throughout history, from the monstrous Sawney Bean, who killed and ate hundreds of travellers in Scotland five hundred years ago, to Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrei Chikatilo, Ed Kemper and Issei Sagawa – all loners, hiding their most terrible of secrets. 
  Then came the World Wide Web. In this comprehensively updated edition we see that in the twenty-first century cannibals who thirst for human flesh and blood are still among us, and, alarmingly, they have moved online to find their victims.

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  All The Mass Corruption - The...

  Roberts R. Kevin

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  All the Mass Corruption examines a criminal case that raised serious concerns about policing, prosecution, and political influence in a small Massachusetts town. 
  For decades, allegations of police misconduct in Massachusetts have surfaced and faded, often without consequence. In recent years, however, these issues have intensified, revealing patterns that can no longer be dismissed as isolated mistakes. 
  At the center of this book is the case of a woman prosecuted for a crime she consistently denied committing. Despite major inconsistencies, conflicting evidence, and unanswered questions, the case moved forward aggressively—raising concerns about how conclusions were reached and why alternative explanations were ignored. 
  This story is not unique. 
  In the same community, the death of a pregnant woman was ruled a suicide under troubling circumstances. Evidence suggesting otherwise was overlooked until federal authorities intervened, exposing broader failures and reinforcing concerns about how power can distort justice. 
  These cases reflect a larger issue. 
  Across Massachusetts, law enforcement has faced repeated scandals involving evidence tampering, corruption, abuse of authority, and oversight failures. Thousands of convictions were later overturned after compromised forensic evidence was uncovered—problems known but left unresolved for years. 
  Using documented cases, public records, and analysis, All the Mass Corruption reveals patterns of institutional self-protection, showing how investigations lose objectivity, accountability stalls, and official narratives persist even when facts remain uncertain. 
  This is not a sensational account, but a factual examination of what happens when justice systems stop questioning themselves—and why restoring trust requires more than authority.

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  Monsters Among Us: Serial...

  Edward Halcroft

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Monsters Among Us: Serial Killers of Russia is a chilling, meticulously researched true crime exploration of the darkest criminal minds in modern Russian history. From notorious predators like Andrei Chikatilo to the state-shielded brutality of Yevgeny Chuplinsky, this book unearths the brutal stories of killers who thrived in the shadows of secrecy and denial. Drawing on public records, legal documents, and journalistic accounts, author Edward Halcroft weaves together each case with psychological depth and narrative intensity. Gripping and disturbing in equal measure, this audiobook exposes a side of Russia rarely acknowledged—where monsters walked unnoticed among everyday people. A must-listen for fans of dark true crime, criminal psychology, and unsolved mysteries.

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