Kidnapping History

The Great Gatsby meets A Game of Thrones in the One Hundred Years of War series. ONE MISTAKE IS ALL IT TAKES TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY. It’s 1973. Oil wars, terrorist attacks, Watergate... Senator Temple has his hands full, maneuvering political turmoil at home and the powder keg that is the Middle East. His mistake allows a criminal businessman to seize control of the world’s energy sector. Powerful oil dynasties—the Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses—could help Temple fix things, but greed and old grudges threaten the alliance. Three families, their fates ...

Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers. In this powerful expose, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail, meets the trafficked women trapped by black magic, the brave nuns who try to save them, and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight.

COWARDICE WEARS MANY MASKS—OF LOYALTY, OF RATIONALITY, AND OFTEN OF CLEMENCY. The twenty-first century is around the corner. bin Laden’s fatwa, the dot-com bubble, an impeachment drama in the U.S. Capitol. Temple, former American president, cannot die before setting right the biggest mistake of his political life. His chosen heir, Lilah, knows the oil network should not continue to exist, but her allies come with many motives. Not all want her to win. Harry, her former lover, works desperately to hold their army together, but some recoil at the thought of what lies ahead. The price of ...

It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions. The thieves demanded a hefty ransom for the safe return of one of the most valuable Thoroughbreds in the world, but the ransom was never paid and Shergar's remains have never been found.

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Cova 312 é a história real de como as Forças Armadas mataram pela tortura um jovem militante político, Milton Soares de Castro, forjaram seu suicídio e sumiram com o corpo. Preso em 1967, Milton, integrante do primeiro e frustrado grupo de guerrilha pós-golpe de 1964, desapareceu sem deixar rastros. A guerrilha — que jamais aconteceu — teria início na serra do Caparaó, mas Milton foi preso e levado para a Penitenciária de Linhares, em Juiz de Fora, onde foi torturado e morto. Os militares forjaram documentos informando que ele havia se suicidado.

Todo delito deja algunas manchas o grietas sin saberlo que pueden conducir a la detección final, hoy o mañana. Un plan criminal infalible fue elaborado a lo largo del tiempo, a la perfección, y con una consideración muy minuciosa. El plan estaba a punto de tener éxito, pero fracasó de repente. Esta historia real presenta un crimen de este tipo, planificado de antemano, que finalmente fracasó. Continúa leyendo para descubrirlo.

Una apasionante historia donde se pretende describir la difícil vida en esclavitud en medio de la selva. Trabajando la tierra bajo el ardiente sol, sin zapatos, calcinando prácticamente pies y manos al roce de la terrible temperatura de la tierra, sufriendo pobreza extrema y los maltratos y prepotencia de los capataces, haciendo patente la lucha de quienes anteponen el amor y la amistad a su propio bienestar y felicidad. Dejando a su paso una gran enseñanza de superación y solidaridad.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - June 2022 The Money Box: A mysterious black box gives its users "unearned" money, but at what price? The Memory Thief: Alice is kidnapped, her mind is downloaded to the cloud, and, due to space limitations, her boyfriend must decide what memories make it into her new body. Tikkun Olam: A retired lawyer tries to help an at-risk youth, but feels she has failed him. Sow: A pilot is tasked with "seeding" a distant planet with the codes to give rise to future humans, at the expense of the planet's natural evolutionary process. A Dragon's Perspective: A ...

In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a deal to sell his network of Ontario theatres, deposited a million-dollar cheque in his bank account, and was never seen again. As weeks turned to years, the disappearance became the most "extraordinary unsolved mystery" of its time.

När Bosse Jansson inte kom till jobbet på måndagmorgonen blev alla kollegorna på det lokala postkontoret oroliga. Bosse var en ordentlig ung man som alltid ringde i förväg om han hade förhinder. En av kollegorna begav sig hem till Bosses lägenhet och knackade på dörren, men fick inget svar. Även nästa dag saknades Bosse på arbetsplatsen, och hans vänner började befara det värsta. Bosses chef gick till polisen för att anmäla försvinnandet, men ombads att avvakta. Några dagar senare börjar polisen undersöka Bosses försvinnande. Ingen nära släkt finns till den unge mannen.