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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, elders, and leaders revolutionizing urban farming in Baltimore City.

"In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang 'Trained to Go,' or TTG, and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison, he had been labeled 'Baltimore's Number One Trigger Puller.' Under Tana's reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. After a string of murders are linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. For them, this was never about drugs: it was about serial murder. An acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with exclusive access to the FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city's deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys, police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing conversations with Tana's family and community to create the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever written. With his signature precision and propulsive narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana--as a boy, a gang leader, a killer, and now a prisoner--in the context of Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really was: a life sentence"

A true-crime whodunnit set in a Chesapeake Bay oystering village at the turn of the 20th century with a double-barrel focus on crime and its consequents-in the courts of public opinion and of law-and beyond.

Årets krimidebut 2020 i Sverige.I 2009 forsvinder datteren af en af Sveriges mest succesrige virksomhedsejere sporløst fra byen Karlstad, og selvom politiet har fundet en mulig gerningsmand, må de løslade ham på grund af manglende beviser.I Baltimore vidner FBI-agenten John Adderley ti år senere i en opsigtsvækkende retssag mod det kriminelle netværk, han gennem flere år har infiltreret. John bliver optaget i et vidnebeskyttelsesprogram, får en ny identitet og bliver efter eget ønsket forflyttet til Karlstad, hvor han er vokset op. Her bliver han en del af den cold case-gruppe, som skal forsøge at opklare den ti år gamle forsvindingssag. Men kan John føle sig tryg med sin nye identitet i Karlstad? Og hvad sker der, hvis kollegerne finder ud af, at den hovedmistænkte i sagen er Johns bror? Det sidste liv er første bind i serien om den tidligere FBI-agent John Adderley.

"In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go," or TTG, and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison, he had been labeled "Baltimore's Number One Trigger Puller." Under Tana's reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. After a string of murders are linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. For them, this was never about drugs: it was about serial murder. An acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with exclusive access to key FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city's deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys, police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing conversations with Tana's family and community to create the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever written. With his signature precision and propulsive narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana-as a boy, a gang leader, a killer, and now a prisoner-in the context of Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really was: a life sentence"--

The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free prisoners of war during the American Civil War. The thundering high-stakes operation was intended to ease the suffering of 15,000 Confederate prisoners held at Point Lookout, Maryland.