I already own Darksiders III and Yakuza Kiwami 2, so I figured I'd just skip this month and trade for the other games on here. I haven't updated my list in a long time, so there may be one or two games that I don't have anymore, but I still own most of them. So far, the games I'm looking for are:
Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition
Crying Suns
Darksburg
Little Misfortune
Smile for Me
Darkwood
Tsioque
Rover Mechanic Simulator
Youropa
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
The ones that I have for trade are:
Humble Gift Link -
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
Knights of Pen and Paper 1+2 Collection
Road Redemption
This War of Mine
Throne of Lies The Online Game of Deceit
Torchlight
Torchlight II
The First Tree
One Deck Dungeon
Skybolt Zack
Golf With Your Friends - OST
Codex of Victory
Conglomerate 451
Deep Sky Derelicts
Gift of Parthax
Haimrik
Quantum Replica
Re-Legion
Shiny
Through the Woods
The Inner World
Pixel Heroes Byte & Magic
Safety First!
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia + Soundtrack
Vambrace: Cold Soul Soundtrack
Vampyr
AER Memories of Old
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
State of Mind
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Batman - The Telltale Series
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Oxenfree
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead - 400 Days
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Astebreed Definitive Edition
LiEat
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
GET EVEN
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game
Small World 2
Splendor
Twilight Struggle
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
Black The Fall
Children of Zodiarcs
Deadbeat Heroes
Forgotton Anne
Goetia
Tokyo Dark
The Turing Test
Train Valley 2
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
A Mortician's Tale
Alien Spidy
Broken Age
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brutal Legend
Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
Darksiders Warmastered Edition
DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
Europa Universalis IV
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
GNOG
Hacknet
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Hollow Knight
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Lostwinds
Magicka
Music Maker EDM Edition
PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2
Party Hard
Pikuniku
Psychonauts
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Sniper Elite 3
Speed Brawl
Stealth 2: A Game of Clones
Stick Fight: The Game
Super Hexagon
SUPERHOT
This is the Police
Tilt Brush
Tropico 4
Undertale
VVVVVV
World of Goo
Worms Revolution
Zombotron
Dead Rising 4
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition
RESIDENT EVIL 2 - All In-game Rewards Unlock
STRIDER
Reigns
Reigns: Her Majesty
Equilinox
MagiCat
Samorost 3
1 Screen Platformer
A Glider's Journey
Adventure Boy Cheapskate DX
Animal Super Squad
Anomaly 2
Anomaly Defenders
Anomaly Korea
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
Artemis: God-Queen of the Hunt
Balancelot
Bastion
Cathedral
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Clatter
Dead by Daylight - Of Flesh and Mud
Dead by Daylight - Spark of Madness
Deadlight: Director's Cut
Dino Run DX
Downtown Drift
Draw Your Game
Drink More Glurp Jingle Jam Challenge
Invisible Inc.
Kalaban
Kingdom: New Lands
Motorsport Manager
Must Dash Amigos
Nemo Dungeon
Neverwinter: Vestments of the Wind Pack
Ninja Senki DX
PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2
Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Pumped BMX +
Rapture Rejects
Rebound Dodgeball Evolved
Red Horizon
Rogue Rocks
Scanner Sombre
Songs of Skydale
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Super Chicken Catchers
THE TEAR
YORG.io
Chasm
Fluffy Horde
Regular Human Basketball
Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force Complete Deluxe Set
Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies (Neptunia)
Moero Chronicle
Neptunia Shooter
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls
Trillion: God of Destruction
Beckett
Everything
Rusty Lake Hotel
The Stanley Parable
Thomas Was Alone
Yume Nikki
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Game Character Hub PE: DS Generator Parts
Game Character Hub PE: Second Story
Game Character Hub: Portfolio Edition
RPG Maker MV
RPG Maker MV - GENE
RPG Maker MV - MADO
RPG Maker MV - SAKAN
RPG Maker VX
RPG Maker VX Ace
RPG Maker XP
Visual Novel Maker + Live 2D
Evergarden
Shenmue I & II
SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
Bridge Constructor Portal
Portal Knights
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Staxel
Tricky Towers
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Planet Alpha
Puss!
The Spiral Scouts
Cat Quest
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Immortal Planet
Pillars of Eternity
Tyranny - Standard Edition
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Pound of Ground
Take On Helicopters
Take on Mars
Ylands
Distance
God's Trigger
Guacamelee! 2
MOTHERGUNSHIP
DISTRAINT 2
Rusty Lake Paradise
Unexplored
The Adventure Pals
Almost There: The Platformer
Yoku's Island Express
60 Parsecs!
Love is Dead
Road Redemption
Clustertruck
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Party Hard
Punch Club
SpeedRunners
Duskers
Paratopic
Pool Panic
Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-tered
Black The Fall
Octahedron
The Turing Test
I'm not a Monster
Wandersong
11-11 Memories Retold
Impact Winter
Little Nightmares
PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Project CARS
Genital Jousting
Highway Blossoms
Just Deserts
Purrfect Date
Sunrider Academy
Sunrider: Liberation Day - Captain's Edition
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Tooth and Tail
Dandara
MINIT
Steel Rats
12 is Better Than 6
BLACKHOLE
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Kingsway
kuso
Soft Body
Way of the Passive Fist
Slipstream
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
GoNNER
Headlander
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Bleed 2
Rapture Rejects
Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder
Sniper Elite 3
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Worms Clan Wars
Animal Super Squad
Anomaly 2
Anomaly Defenders
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Blade & Bones
Board Battlefield
Clicker bAdventure
Cloudborn
Convoy
Cube Link
Deep Dungeons of Doom
Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon
Don't Stand Out
Dungeon Escape
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Flux8
Freaky Awesome
Guns of Icarus Alliance Collector's Edition
Hackyzack
The Haunting of Billy
Hello Pollution!
Hyperdrive Massacre
Indecision.
Kabounce
Lakeview Cabin Collection
Last Encounter
LOVE
Lucius Demake
Marvin's Mittens
Match Point
No Time To Explain Remastered
Race The Sun
R-COIL
Road Doom
Slime-san
Super Steampunk Pinball 2D
Sure Footing
Switchblade Starter Pack
Temple of Xiala
Throne of Lies The Online Game of Deceit
Tower 57
Tross
Unit 4
Wizorb
Zero G Arena
Colt Express
King and Assassins
Kentucky Route Zero
RWBY: Grimm Eclipse
War for the Overworld + Heart of Gold DLC
The Dwarves
Resident Evil Revelations
Gremlins, Inc.
Old Man's Journey
Pathfinder Adventures
Talisman: Digital Edition
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
Talisman: Digital Edition
How to Survive 2
Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition
12 is Better than 6
Bear With Me - Collector's Edition
Dungeon of the Endless
Jalopy
NBA Playgrounds
Action Henk
JYDGE
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Kingdom: New Lands
Laser League
Holy Potatoes! We're In Space?!
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Filthy, Stinking, Orcs
Sanctum 2
Grey Goo
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Green Man Gaming -
CRUSADER KINGS II
WARHAMMER END TIMES VERMINTIDE
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US ULTIMATE
THE FLAME IN THE FLOOD
FROZEN SYNAPSE PRIME
BEAT COP
SUPER CLOUDBUILT
THE LITTLE ACRE
INSURGENCY
FEAR 3
DEAD AGE
MAGICKA
SERIAL CLEANER
CASTLEVANIA LORDS OF SHADOW 2
FAHRENHEIT REMASTERED
OPERATION FLASHPOINT RED RIVER
ROCKET KNIGHT
LEGO BATMAN
BIOZONE
ADR1FT
Fanatical -
Autonauts
Guards
How to Take Off Your Mask
ENIGMA:
Garfield Kart
Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition
Styx: Master of Shadows
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
EARTH'S DAWN
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Rain World
Shadwen
Syndrome
The Technomancer
Chess Ultra
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!
DEAD OR SCHOOL
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
XBlaze Code: Embryo
XBlaze Lost: Memories
Duke Nukem Forever
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR-
Party Hard 2
The Walking Dead
This War of Mine
Blood: Fresh Supply
Syberia II
If My Heart Had Wings
LoveKami -Divinity Stage-
LoveKami -Useless Goddess-
The Surge
Dungeons 2
The First Templar - Steam Special Edition
Urban Empire
The Dark Eye: Demonicon
Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms
Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor
King's Heir: Rise to the Throne
Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well
My Brother Rabbit
Noir Chronicles: City of Crime
Path of Sin: Greed
Queen's Quest 4: Sacred Truce
Tharsis
Little Big Adventure 2
Return to Mysterious Island 2
Damned
Return to Mysterious Island
Odyssey - The Story of Science
Little Big Adventure - Enhanced Edition
Sanitarium
The Royal Marines Commando
STARBO
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
Guns of Icarus Online
Hamsterdam
Gates of Hell
Perfect Heist
Aces of the Luftwaffe
Operation Thunderstorm
Clouds & Sheep 2
Archamon
The Crown of Leaves
HERO DEFENSE
Tales From Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
Last Dream: World Unknown
The Swindle
Robothorium: Cyberpunk Dungeon Crawler
Equilinox
Rogue Wizards
Codex of Victory
Haimrik
In Fear I Trust
In Fear I Trust - Episode 2
In Fear I Trust - Episode 3
In Fear I Trust - Episode 4
The Watchmaker
The Uncertain - The Last Quiet Day
World's Dawn
Extinction
Infinite Air with Mark McMorris
Super Inefficient Golf
Tales of Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
Shadwen
Creeping Terror
Fantasy Wars
Ascension to the Throne
Savage Lands
Survivalist
Still Life
Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead
Syberia
Miasmata
Syberia II
Looterkings
Damned
Lost Civilization
QuestRun
Railroad Pioneer
SkyDrift
Thunder Wolves
Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Overclocked: A History of Violence
Dark Strokes: The Legend of the Snow Kingdom Collector's Edition
Eternal Journey: New Atlantis
Forest Legends: The Call of Love Collector's Edition
House of 1000 Doors: Evil Inside
House of 1000 Doors: Serpent Flame
Joan Jade and the Gates of Xibalba
Love Alchemy: A Heart in Winter
Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light
Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten
The Fog: Trap for Moths
Analogue: A Hate Story
Detention
The Coma: Recut
The Coma: Recut - Soundtrack & Art Pack DLC
Revolution Ace
Californium
SkyDrift
Clinically Dead
Out There Somewhere
Fate Tectonics
Plazma Being
One Finger Death Punch
ESport Manager
Dungeons 2
Galaxy Squad
Oriental Empires
Stars in Shadow
TASTEE Lethal Tactics
The Lion's Song: Season Pass
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Shuyan Saga
Steel Vampire
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Snake Pass
BEEP
DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon
Destiny Warriors RPG
Gun Rocket
Labyronia RPG
Labyronia RPG 2
LocoSoccer
Out There Somewhere
Storm of Spears RPG
Subterra
Sun Blast: Star Fighter
The Odyssey: Winds of Athena
Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon
GAUGE
Isbarah
Poöf
Puddle
Replay - VHS is not dead
Wooden Sen'SeY
House of Caravan
Cultures Northland
Splatter Zombie Apocalypse
Squirbs
Learn Japanese to survive Hiragana Battle
Airscape The Fall of Gravity
Revolution Ace
Labyronia RPG
PARTICLE MACE
Cultures 8th Wonder of the World
GIBZ
STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
Dex
Figment
Hive Jump
Jalopy
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
Blades of Time Limited Edition
Blood Knights
Demonicon
Drakensang
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Inquisitor
Knights and Merchants
Lichdom: Battlemage
Numen: Contest of Heroes
Rune Classic
Sudeki
Two Worlds II: Velvet Edition
Wizardry 6&7
Asteroid Bounty Hunter
Charlie's Adventure
Cube Runner
Duke of Alpha Centauri
Fly and Destroy
Hungry Flame
Neon Space
Neon Space 2
ShipLord
Slash It
Slash It 2
Spin Rush
Survive in Space
Upside Down
Distant Worlds: Universe
Heavy Burger
I am not a Monster
Learn Japanese to survive Hiragana Battle
SimplePlanes
Sword Legacy Omen
Moero Chronicle
Moero Chronicle - Deluxe Pack DLC
35MM
Deadlight
Distrust
Killing Room
March of the Living
Savage Lands
Tharsis
Valnir Rok Survival RPG
Dreamscapes: The Sandman - Premium Edition
Dreamscapes: Nightmare's Heir - Premium Edition
Sea Legends: Phantasmal Light Collector's Edition
Witch's Pranks: Frog's Fortune Collector's Edition
Kingdom of Aurelia: Mystery of the Poisoned Dagger
Taken Souls: Blood Ritual Collector's Edition
Silver Tale
A Plot Story
Hexus
Jane Angel: Templar Mystery
Dream Walker
Witch's Tales
Escape Doodland
Mad Dream: Coma
Earthworms
Clinically Dead
Mech Rage
Camper Jumper Simulator
ESport Manager
Darkest Hunters
The Sexy Brutale
Beholder
The Last Door - Collector's Edition
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
System Shock 2
Metal Fatigue
Spirits of Xanadu
Shadow Man
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
PAYDAY 2
Jalopy
Hover
Figment
Subterrain
STARWHAL
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
Joggernauts
The Long Reach
Mainlining
Coffin Dodgers
The Rivers of Alice - Extended Version
Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn
The Walking Vegetables
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
UNLOVED
Killing Room
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Styx: Shards of Darkness
STAR WARS - Knights of the Old Republic
STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition
METAL SLUG X
Oxenfree
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
The Political Machine 2016
The Corporate Machine
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Demigod
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
March of the Living
Four Sided Fantasy
Dungeon Rushers
The Invisible Hours
Dead Secret
The Free Ones
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Castle of no Escape 2
Galactic Lords
W4RR-i/o-RS
Nogibator: Way Of Legs
WN - ShP
Fairy Lands: Rinka and the Fairy Gems
Drill Arena
Walhall
Er-Spectro
Risky Rescue
Frederic: Evil Strikes Back
16bit Trader
Midnight Mysteries
Midnight Mysteries 4: Haunted Houdini
Zombie Bowl-o-Rama
Little Farm
Silver Knight
ANKI
Lift It
3 Coins At School
Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey
Green Ranch
The lost joystick
UBERMOSH Vol. 5
Trip to Vinelands
TTV2
SWARMRIDER OMEGA
UBERMOSH
UBERMOSH:BLACK
UBERMOSH Vol.3
Iesabel
Daemonsgate
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Prophecy I - The Viking Child
Drakkhen
Hostage: Rescue Mission
King's Table - The Legend of Ragnarok
Eternam
Chaos Control
Bubble Ghost
Mystical
Alien Rampage
Frederic: Resurrection of Music
Teddy Floppy Ear - Mountain Adventure
Teddy Floppy Ear - Kayaking
Millie
Sparkle 2 Evo
Story of the Survivor
SharpShooter3D
Goodbye My King
Watch This!
Crazy Oafish Ultra Blocks: Big Sale
Crystal City
Bloody Boobs
AuroraRL
Dispatcher
Casino Noir
Detective Noir
Reptilians Must Die!
The Braves & Bows
Zzzz-Zzzz-Zzzz
The Dweller
Surfingers
Timberman
Sparkle 3 Genesis
Cat on a Diet
Zombillie
Asteroid Bounty Hunter
ShipLord
Neon Prism
Slash It
Slash It 2
Cube Runner
Upside Down
Spin Rush
Neon Space
Neon Space 2
Duke of Alpha Centauri
Hungry Flame
Survive in Space
Fly and Destroy
Charlie's Adventure
Luxor Evolved
Luxor: Amun Rising HD
LUXOR: Mah Jong
Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife
Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena
Red Risk
Particula
Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf
OutDrive
Invasion
Cubium Dreams
Iron Impact
Stigmat
Marco Polo
Cybercube
Mr. Dubstep
Monstrum
Wick
Lethe - Episode One
35MM
I Shall Remain
Silence of the Sleep
Rebel Galaxy
Punch Club - Deluxe Edition
Grey Goo Definitive Edition
RiME
Gloom
SharpShooter3D
Goodbye My King
Crystal City
Art of Murder - Cards of Destiny
Art of Murder - Deadly Secrets
Art of Murder - FBI Confidential
Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer
Art of Murder - The Secret Files
Chronicles of Mystery - Secret of the Lost Kingdom
Chronicles of Mystery - The Legend of the Sacred Treasure
Chronicles of Mystery - The Tree of Life
Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual
Megadimension Neptunia VII
Megadimension Neptunia VII Digital Deluxe Set DLC
Galactic Lords
W4RR-i/o-RS
Nogibator: Way Of Legs
WN - ShP
Fairy Lands: Rinka and the Fairy Gems
Drill Arena
Walhall
Er-Spectro
Daemonsgate
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Prophecy I - The Viking Child
Drakkhen
Marco Polo
Hostage: Rescue Mission
King's Table - The Legend of Ragnarok
Eternam
Chaos Control
Bubble Ghost
Mystical
Alien Rampage
Ocean Classics Volume 1
200% Mixed Juice
War of the Human Tanks
Worms
Worms Reloaded: Game of the Year Edition
Worms Ultimate Mayhem - Deluxe Edition
Worms Crazy Golf
Worms Blast
Worms Pinball
The Mooseman
Sky Break
Tropico 5
Super Cloudbuilt
Tower 57
Dex
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Deponia: The Complete Journey
Table Top Racing: World Tour
Riff Racer - Race Your Music!
GT Legends
GTR Evolution
Vangers
Insane 2
Zero Gear
Race.a.bit
Mashed
Race: The WTCC Game + Caterham Expansion
Little Racers STREET
BARRIER X
Super Toy Cars
Mini Motor Racing EVO
Drift Streets Japan
Instant Death
Spirits of Xanadu
Swipe Fruit Smash
Voxel Baller
Breezeblox
BalanCity
VRog
BoomTown! Deluxe
City Siege: Faction Island
Bomb The Monsters!
Crazy Belts
Rush for Glory
Naval Warfare
Insurgency
Blood Knights
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Wizardry 6 & 7
Drakensang
Rune Classic
Gemcraft - Chasing Shadows
Knights and Merchants
Etherlords I & II
Sudeki
Numen: Contest of Heroes
Inquisitor
Commands & Colors: The Great War
Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
Attrition: Tactical Fronts
Imperial Glory
Praetorians
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Ominous Tales: The Forsaken Isle
Beyond the Invisible: Evening
Tearstone
Entwined: Strings of Deception
Vengeance: Lost Love
The Rosebud Condominium
Where Angels Cry: Tears of the Fallen (Collector's Edition)
Lightning: D-Day
Congo Merc
Hold the Line: The American Revolution
Battles of the Ancient World
Peninsular War Battles
1812: The Invasion of Canada
Russian Front
7 Wonders II
7 Wonders of the Ancient World
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour
7 Wonders: Treasures of Seven
Discovery! A Seek and Find Adventure
Gardens Inc. 2: The Road to Fame
Glowfish
Little Farm
Luxor 2 HD
Luxor 3
Luxor Evolved
Luxor HD
Luxor: 5th Passage
Luxor: Amun Rising HD
LUXOR: Mah Jong
Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife
Midnight Mysteries
Midnight Mysteries 3: Devil on the Mississippi
Midnight Mysteries 4: Haunted Houdini
Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials
Midnight Mysteries: Witches of Abraham - Collector's Edition
Pickers
Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena
The Dweller
Iesabel
EM: Shader Attack
Invasion
Labyronia RPG
Labyronia RPG 2
Legend of Mysteria RPG
Chosen 2
Balloon Blowout
Bayla Bunny
Block Blowout
Chess Knight 2
Dessert Storm
Fantastic 4 In A Row 2
Fantastic Checkers 2
Ludo Supremo
Mahjong Deluxe 2: Astral Planes
Mahsung Deluxe
Mini Golf Mundo
Pepe Porcupine
Puppy Dog: Jigsaw Puzzles
Puzzles Under The Hill
Ultimate Word Search 2: Letter Boxed
Bubble Blowout
Train Valley
Broken Sword Trilogy
Daemonsgate
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
Prophecy I - The Viking Child
Drakkhen
Marco Polo
Hostage: Rescue Mission
King's Table - The Legend of Ragnarok
Bubble Ghost
Mystical
Ocean Classics Volume 1
Pandora: First Contact
35MM
Grand Ages: Rome GOLD
GT Legends
Nether: Resurrected
CAT Interstellar
Circut Breakers
Memoranda
Sins of the Demon RPG
Gladiator Trainer
Dragon Sinker
Neon Chrome
Skullgirls
Mad Games Tycoon
Replica
Patrician IV - Steam Special Edition
Patrician IV: Rise of a Dynasty
Patrician III
The Swindle
Zenith
Hive Jump
ICY: Frostbite Edition
Commandos Collection
Revhead
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
Demolish & Build 2017
Robot Squad Simulator 2017
Skullgirls & DLC
The Mims Beginning
Dreamstones
Cally's Caves 4
Tank Battle: East Front
Tank Battle: Pacific
Tank Battle: Normandy
Tank Battle: North Africa
Tank Battle: 1944
Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg
Tank Battle: 1945
Civil War: 1861
Civil War: Bull Run 1861
Civil War: 1862
Civil War: 1865
Civil War: Gettysburg
Civil War: 1864
SK8
King of the Eggs
Bouncy Bob
Hotel Dracula
Warfront Defenders: Westerplatte
Pony Island
Who's Your Daddy
SWARMRIDER OMEGA
SWARMRIDER OMEGA OST DLC
SWARMRIDERS: Original Soundtrack DLC
DinoSystem
Super Sports Surgery
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
Startide
Timberman
Kathy Rain
Table Top Racing: World Tour
Z
Dark Years
Exowar
Total Extreme Wrestling
World of Mixed Martial Arts 3
IGT Slots Paradise Garden
Anti-Opoly
Wrestling Spirit 3
Draft Day Sports College Basketball 3
Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 4
Defend Your Life
Hyperdrive Massacre
The lost joystick
Orbital Racer
RUNRUNRUN
Murder...
UBERMOSH:BLACK
Trip to Vinelands
SWARMRIDER OMEGA
Bad Dream: Coma
Mad Games Tycoon
Perfect Universe
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Deep Dungeons of Doom
Worms
PolyRace
The Way
Indiegala -
Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders
The Secret Order 6: Bloodline
Demon Hunter 4: Riddles of Light
Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery
Animal Lover
Magi Trials Deluxe Edition
Highschool Possession
Topless Hentai Mosaic
Hentai Hexa Mosaic
Borderus
The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan
Eventide 2: The Sorcerers Mirror
Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
Beach Bounce
Beach Bounce - Soundtrack
Beauty Bounce
Bunny Bounce
Club Life
Club Life - Soundtrack
Divine Slice of Life
Divine Slice of Life - Soundtrack
Echo Tokyo - Wallpapers
Echo Tokyo: Graphic Novel
Echo Tokyo: Intro
Highschool Possession
Highschool Romance
Magi Trials Deluxe Edition
Summer Fling
Summer Fling OST
Sword of Asumi Deluxe Edition
Knock-knock
Systematic Immunity
OddPlanet
The Quest for Achievements Remix
Moot District
Ceville
Mutiny!
Magic Trials Deluxe Edition
Hentai Zodiac Puzzle
PUZZLETIME: Lovely Girls
Girls of Hentai Mosaic
Girls of Hentai Mosaic - HQ Artbook & Wallpapers
Hentai Hexa mosaic
Hentai Hexa Mosaic - Soundtrack
Lady's Hentai Mosaic
Lady's Hentai Mosaic - OST
Lady's Hentai Mosaic - PNG Artbook
Pixel Hentai Mosaic
Pixel Hentai Mosaic - OST
Topless Hentai Mosaic
Topless Hentai Mosaic - OST
Topless Hentai Mosaic - PNG Artbook
Echo Tokyo: An Intro
Echo Tokyo - Wallpapers
Echo Tokyo: Graphic Novel
Last Anime boy: Saving loli
Witch College
Pleasure Airlines
Senpai Teaches Me Japanese: Part 1
Chibi Volleyball
My personal Angel
Riddled Corpses
Nandeyanen!?
AstroViking
?????2 / Seven boys 2
TimeTekker
Girls of Hentai Mosaic
Topless Hentai Mosaic
Hentai Hexa mosaic
Lady's Hentai Mosaic
Pixel Hentai Mosaic
Book Series - Alice in Wonderland
On Earth As It Is In Heaven - A Kinetic Novel
BAD END
Frank & the TimeTwister Machine
Linelight
Hook
Franchise Wars
Rush Bros
Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
Without Within 2
Cursed Sight
Beauty Bounce
Highschool Romance
Beach Bounce
Club Life
Echo Tokyo: Intro
Echo Tokyo: Graphic Novel
This Strange Realm Of Mine
Bot Vice
Eliosi's Hunt
Aspect
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan
Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
Particle Mace
Secret of Magia
Sins of the Demon RPG
Splatter - Zombie Apocalypse
Airscape - The Fall of Gravity
Fate Tectonics
Battle Ranch: Pigs vs Plants
Earth Overclocked
Greyfox RPG
Wish -tale of the sixteenth night of lunar month-
Cursed Sight
A Winter's Daydream
Empty Horizons
Poker Pretty Girls Battle: Texas Hold'em
Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire
Pretty Girls Panic!
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle
Boneless Zombie
Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire
Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle: Schools Girls Edition
Wild Romance
Pretty Girls Panic! (Chinese version only)
Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire (Chinese version only)
Slash or Die
Slash or Die 2
RepairBot
Stellar Interface
Trench Run
12 Labours of Hercules VII: Fleecing the Fleece (Platinum Edition)
A Dream For Aaron
A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher
ARENA GODS
Adelantado Trilogy. Book Two
Adelantado Trilogy. Book one
Adventures of Dragon
Aircraft Evolution
Alice in Wonderland - Hidden Objects
Alicia Quatermain 2: The Stone of Fate
Alicia Quatermain: Secrets Of The Lost Treasures
Amelon
BAD END
BELPAESE: Homecoming
Battle High 2 A+
Beat The Game
Bitcoin Miner
Blind Men
BlowOut
Border of her Heart
Bottom of the 9th
Bravium
Brawlout
Broken Minds
Burnin' Rubber 5 HD
Chinese Ink Painting Puzzle & Creator
ClickBit
Coffee Crawl
Crashday Redline Edition
Crazy Pirate
Crisis in the Kremlin
Crystal Catacombs
Crystals of Niberium
Cube Zone
Cubiques
Cubiques 2
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Digital Resistance
Disparity
Drake of the 99 Dragons
E-Startup
Elbub
FreeHolder
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance
Goldmine
Gothicc Breaker
Hentai Puzzle
Hentai Sokoban
Hide The Body
I.F.O
Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
Insert Paper: Update
Joy Climb
Judge Dredd 95
Krampus Quest
Krautscape
LOOT BOX ACHIEVEMENT SIMULATOR
Legend of the Skyfish
Lunch Truck Tycoon
MIND SHIFT
Maze of Infection
Mines of Mars
Mini Ghost
Mission: Escape from Island 2
Moto Racer 4
Moto Racer 4 - Space Dasher
Moto Racer 4 - The Truth
Navalny 20!8 : The Rise of Evil
Negligee
Neverliria
Next Hero
ORCS
PLATI NALOG: Favorite Russian Game
Panzer Hearts - War Visual Novel
Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date?
Paradox Wrench
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
Pixel Hentai Mosaic
Pixelpunk XL
Plant This
Q-YO Blaster
Questr
Ravensword: Shadowlands
River City Super Sports Challenge All Stars Special
Rot Gut
STATUS: INSANE
SUPER BENBO QUEST: TURBO DELUXE
Science Girls
Shadowgrounds
Shield Impact
Shout Of Survival
Spooky Cats
Store Simulator
Suna
SwordBounce
The Adventures of Elena Temple
The Bluecoats: North vs South
The God
The Last Dawn : The first invasion
The Lost Gardens
The Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 - Prelude
The Uncertain: Episode 1 - The Last Quiet Day
They Are Hundreds
Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found
Usual John
Visceral Cubes
WeakWood Throne
Welcome to Princeland
Wings of Vi
World's Dawn
Zombie Desperation
the Line
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ART THIEVES, FORGERS, SMUGGLERS.
The Art of the Steal by Christopher Mason. A true story about the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s and how they conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars.
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace. The most expensive bottle of wine and the conflicting reports about its history. This is a book that would enchant wine conessi… conues… lovers.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser. Author Ulrich Boser looks at the unsolved art theft case of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant. Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-activist, fells a unique 165 feet Sitka spruce in an act of protest. John Vaillant takes the readers into the heart of North America’s last great forest to find out why he did that.
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by Susan Ronald. Hildebrand Gurlitt was an art thief, or as he put it himself, an ‘official dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels. But he stole from the Jews and Nazis alike. This book was published after his hoard was recently (2013) discovered which created an international furor.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart. This book is about the art theft at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986. The suspect, a gangster named Martin Cahill, played cat and mouse with police for years.
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. When you think about stealing some valuable art, do maps come to your mind? Then this book is for you. Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr. stole numerous centuries-old maps from research libraries in US and Canada.
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne. Han van Meegeren became so much adapt at forging Vermeer paintings that it is said that even professional experts would find it difficult to point out his works from the originals. He earned more than $50 million by selling his forgeries – and he even swindled the Nazis.
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy. Reptile smuggling is a big “business”. The author, a federal agent, suspected a reptile business owner of being a major smuggler and he started investigating. It was not as simple as it sounds because at one point he was chased by a mother alligator and even bitten by a python.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver. A 2500 year old cup made by the Greek master Euphronios which depicted the fall of Troy gets stolen and sold (along with 3 other such vessels). Then due to the questionable practice of some art dealers, no one can track down its last known owner.
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. With nothing better to do, the author embarks on a journey to discover a Caravaggio painting which was lost to time two hundred years ago.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett. John Charles Gilkey stole rare books not because he wanted to make profit as most thieves do, but because he loved books. I guess if you want to call yourself a book-reader but don’t actually want to say… read a book, you could just steal them and show them off to your friends. But who are we to question the wisdom of “booklovers”, right?
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean. If you thought that stealing maps is a weird “job” to have, how about stealing a rare breed of flower? We all know about the Tulipomania that gripped Netherlands in the 1630s. But this is a modern tale, and the book is perhaps one of the most popular ones on this list.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. This book is about Robert K. Wittman, FBI’s founder of the Art Crime Team and his undercover missions around the world to rescue various pieces of stolen art.
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury. You could have a Jackson Pollock lying around in your basement, but if you can’t prove that the piece is real, you might as well use it as a table cloth (I might have exaggerated there a bit, but you get the point). John Myatt, a struggling artist, and John Drewe, a conman who knew the importance of Provenance in the art world, duped many people and museums by creating a fake paper trial that seemed to prove that the art was a real thing and not a forgery. So much so that the experts believe that there might still be some fake paintings created by Myatt displayed in prominent places as the real thing.
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick. Dolnick writes about the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and the subsequent investigation that took place to track it down.
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris In mid-eighties, Hitler’s diaries were “discovered” and many experts fell for the con. The backpeddling many did when it was revealed that the diaries were not real is really amusing to read about.
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty by Craig Welch. This book is about the poaching of a larger-than-life clam – a Geoduck, to be precise, and the subsequent chase from the wildlife police to nab the poacher.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World by Roger Atwood. This book provides a sweeping history of thefts of various priceless antiques.
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney. The twelve panel oil-painting of the Mystic Lamb is the most frequently stolen artwork in the world. It was stolen 13 times. One wonders whether they could have guarded it a little better after the first couple of times, you know. Anyway, this book describes the events of each theft.
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith. Two reptile smugglers compete against each other to conquer the illegal trade for themselves. The funny thing is, the Zoos stood against them in the courts, but they had no problem buying rare fauna from the two smugglers, sometimes simultaneously.
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel. A massive fire destroyed wines worth $250 million in a California warehouse, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. It was done by a conman named Mark Anderson, who rented storage space at the same warehouse. This book tells why he did that and also goes into the surprisingly bloody history of wine trade in California. (reads well with cranberry juice).
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti. On August 21, 1911, a man walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa tucked inside his coat (should have painted it bigger, eh Vinci?). I am not going to spoil this book for anyone. Read it if you want to know whether Mona Lisa was recovered or was lost to time forever.
CARTELS, GANGS, UNDERWORLD.
American Desperado: My Life --- From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright. Jon Roberts, who starred in documentary Cocaine Cowboys tells his story to the journalist Evan Wright in this book. Roberts smuggled drugs to Miami for the Medellin Cartel (which will feature many times in this category).
At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel. This is Narcos Season 3, basically. Remember the family guy who gets involved with the Cali Cartel and mops around for the whole season even though he had an unbelievably hot wife who was clearly out of his league? That character was based on Rempel. And if I must say so, the book is more compelling than that season of Narcos. Nothing can beat Agent Pena, though.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill. The story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – the head of the Irish Mob in Boston - who became an informant for the FBI and chaos ensued. Depp plays Whitey Bulger in the movie adaptation with a soggy tortilla glued to his face as make-up.
Blow: How a Small -Town Bay Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by Bruce Porter. Another book where Johnny Depp plays the main character in the movie adaptation. This book is about George Jung, who after meeting Carlos Lehder, started selling cocaine in the United States through Medellin Cartel.
Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell. Paul Keany was caught smuggling half-a-million euro worth of cocaine into Venezuela. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Now, prisons everywhere aren’t exactly fun places to be, but Los Teques where Keany was incarcerated was nothing short of hell on earth.
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga. Junichi Saga was a doctor by profession. A patient, who was a former Yakuza, recounted his life story before him. Saga recorded the conversations, and broke doctor-patient confidentiality by writing this book.
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden. A dentist named Larry Lavin builds the foundation for a cocaine empire in the United States.
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover for six years to infiltrate the Mafia. Do watch the movie too, it is Depp’s last movie without weird make-up.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo. Journalist Ioan Grillo has written, arguably, the definitive book on Mexican drug cartels. Why he is still alive is anybody’s guess.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh. Venkatesh, who was a sociology grad student at the time, infiltrated one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. This is one of a kind type of book.
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. This book is about the Italian Crime Network called Camorra in Naples, Italy. Due to his intensive investigative journalism which exposed lot of insider information about the crime syndicate, author Saviano still has to live under constant police protection.
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry. This is a recent book, where the author Alex Perry looks inside the ruthless Calabrian Mafia of Italy and three women who want to save their own and their children’s lives. This is a fascinating and courageous look into an aspect of the Mafia which is often overlooked by most.
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most Wanted Drug-Lord by Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century. Remember when Joaquin Guzman was caught for the first time and then he escaped and then he was caught again for good? Yes? Then read this one. But this book only focuses on the operation that nabbed him for the first time. I must warn you though – the author, Andrew Hogan – is really really in love with himself and it seeps into his writing.
The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel by Robert Mazur. Mazur went undercover and actually became a money launderer for Pablo Escobar. This book is more about how bankers actively helped to launder the drug money and how Mazur helped to bring them down.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden. This is the best book about tracking and eventually killing Pablo Escobar. And as Walter Jr. pointed out to Walter White, it focuses on the good guys, not the bad ones. Good companion book to Pablo Escobar: My Father written by Escobar’s son.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail by Rusty Young. The author stays inside San Pedro jail for months with a drug smuggler to chronicle his tale. This is one of the most popular books written on cocaine smuggling.
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny. This is a thorough investigation into organized crime worldwide which accounts for 1/5th of total GDP of the world. This book would please readers who are into extensively researched true-crime history books, not so much a casual reader (inb4 - I just read 5 pages of McMafia and wow… just wow).
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade by Edward Bunker. Edward Bunker had had an eventful life. Incarceration for two and a half decades, being on FBI’s most wanted list, and being a crime novelist. This is his autobiography.
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks. Howard Marks started dealing dope in small quantities while he was studying at Oxford – as you do – and then eventually graduated to dealing it in tons (what the hell was he studying there? Oh, philosophy). This is his fascinating story.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez. Yet another book that resulted in the author getting death threats. This proves the old cliché true that the pen is mightier than the sword; until the sword comes down and cuts your neck. That’s why the author has to live under constant protection.
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright. Any aspiring drug lords should read this instruction manual. Just kidding. Wainwright goes deep into the functioning of various drug cartels and at the end also comes up with a plan to defeat them.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Little known author tries his hand at true-crime. Pablo Escobar kidnapped 10 journalists when he was on the run from the authorities. This book revolves around that event.
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy by Chandan Nandy. On a December night in 1995, someone airdropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, West Bengal. Who did it and why? This book tells the story about one of India’s greatest ever security breaches.
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton. Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the notorious biker gang. This is his story.
Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo is an architect and lives and practices his trade in Argentina. Even though Pablo was his father, Juan does not try to justify his actions even a little bit. This is one of the best books written on Pablo Escobar.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe. Sister Ping, leader of the Chinese underworld in the US, earned $40 million a year smuggling people from China. Told from the viewpoints of gangsters, investigators, and poor immigrants alike, this book provides a unique window into the world of human smuggling.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History by Michael D. Blutrich. I am disappointed that they went with FBI instead of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the title. Should have made it longer. Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City on the 34th Street Just Opposite the Starbucks, Was Extorted out of 4.54 Millions and 55 Cents Plus Taxes by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in Federal Bureau of Investigation History by Michael Dostoyevsky Blutrich
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein. The author, working as a reporter in Japan, writes about the seedy underbelly of crime in the country.
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley. Where’s Nitty? He’s in the car. Great movie. How Eliot Ness and his team started the downward spiral in criminal career of Al Capone. A somewhat embellished account was also written in the book, but nonetheless, it is a gripping tale.
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand by K. Vijay Kumar. Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was the last big outlaw of India. A sandalwood smuggler who lived in the forest to evade the police, Veerappan killed hundreds of policemen and civilians. K. Vijay Kumar, the officer who led the task force that ultimately brought down the brigand, is the author of this book.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? Goodfellas is perhaps the best Mafia movie ever made, so read it in his own words why Pileggi might fold under questioning.
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss. This Saviano guy must have a death wish. But as a handsome list-writer once eloquently said, “If bitten already by a King Cobra, what difference it makes if you French kiss a Black Mamba?” Since the publication of his book on the Italian crime syndicate, Saviano has to live under constant police protection. So to make sure they don’t slack off, he wrote a book on Cocaine Cartel, this time acquiring lots of admirers in Latin America.
CONMEN, IMPOSTORS.
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten. The Art of making money is to make other people work for you; not the other way round. But more scrupulous method of making money would be to counterfeit it. Art Williams did exactly that.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale. Maybe the most popular book on this list, Abagnale Jr.’s book is not to be missed even if you have watched the movie starring the actor who had sex with a bear (no, not Tormund).
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. One “Dr.” John R. Brinkley, set-up a medical practice to surgically insert goat glands in human testicles to restore their fading sex drive. I am not joking, this happened.
Conman: A Master Swindler’s Own Story by J. R. Weil, W. T. Brannon. Known as “Yellow Kid” Weil was a master conman, who duped public of more than $8 million 100 years ago. He’s called by many as the greatest conman of all time (second to the companies that charge service fees on the internet, of course).
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton. Fenton was a math student until he turned into a carnival con artist. How many bananas he stole from the monkeys? How many bales of potatoes from the elephants? Read this book to find out.
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise. If you have any annoying friends who romanticize the Victorian era and say that they would have liked to live there, tell them to read this book and get back to you after that.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal. This is the true story of one of the greatest impostors of all time. The man could have impersonated a chihuahua if he wanted to.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by James Francis Johnson. Viktor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. I still have the relevant papers that my great grandfather left us. I’m going to shift it to Nauru or Detroit.
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading. This is a revenge story of a man who sets out to con the conmen who conned him twice. Unfortunately, the book could have been written better, but it is still worth having a look at.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood. I once tried playing dead in a meeting when asked about the progress on my project. But there are people who fake their death for lesser gains, such as insurance fraud and debt fraud. Author Elizabeth Greenwood journeys into the dark world of death fraud to find out more.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff. Charles Ponzi was so successful in duping people that we have immortalized his name by terming such swindles after him. At one point, he was raking in $2 millions a week. How many weeks would it take you to earn 2 million dollars at your current income? (sorry, that got heavy fast. It hurt me too).
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh. One botanist claimed that some species of plants on the islands south of Scotland survived the last Ice Age. Another botanist doubted him. This might not sound like a big fraud if you are not into plants, but believe me when I say that the 2 botanists who just read this threw their phones away in disgust and disbelief.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen. A quack doctor named Linda Hazard developed a technique called “fasting treatment”. The story focuses on two sisters who fell for the quack’s assurances that they would be cured of all the diseases - real or imagined. This book is quite infuriating to read. Hazard was a despicable human being.
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson. Wilson looks from ancient Rome to current times for food frauds. And she finds them aplenty (companion read - while having a nice snack).
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar. This is a good bathroom book about fakers through history.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. Have you heard about Tania Head? If you haven’t, I urge you to skip this book. Tania Head duped survivors of 9/11 and the whole world alike into believing that she was one of the survivors from the South Tower of World Trade Center. I feel enraged just by typing this. So just read this book if you want to know more about her. There are a couple of documentaries out there too.
HACKERS.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. Long before internet became a place for cat memes, Cliff Stoll was working at a research lab as a systems manager. One day he found 75 cents of accounting error. This made him alert that an unauthorized person was logging into the system. Thus began his lone effort of tracking down the spy.
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley. Before there was internet, or even personal computers, mobsters and teenagers hacked the telephone system.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. The book tells the story of one of the best hackers of all times, Kevin Mitnick, and his cat and mouse game with the FBI.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich. A group of bankers manipulated daily interest rates just a fraction here and there on loans worth trillions of dollars and made some serious cash for themselves. This book also rocks one of the ugliest book covers of 2017.
MUTINEERS, PIRATES, OUTLAWS.
Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash. I was torn whether to include this book in the list as the history of Batavia’s mutiny is littered with corpses. But as the focus is on the mutiny, I am going to keep it here. This event could give the Medusa’s raft a run for its money.
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts by Sian Rees. Poor girls in England, most of who were petty thieves, were given a chance to sail to Botany Bay in Australia to create a new life for themselves and the male population of New South Wales. But the real story happened at the sea on board the ship Lady Julian.
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch. Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty. The book might not be full of memorable dialogues as the movie, but if you want to know more about the legendary outlaws, give this book a chance.
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks. Mutiny of the Bounty is perhaps the most infamous of mutinies that occurred at sea. Even after the event and hundreds of years later, the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his sailors continue to live a crime-filled life like their forefathers on Pitcairn Island.
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks. This book will change your perception of Captain Kidd, that’s for sure.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner. This non-fiction book concentrates on Sheriff Pat Garrett’s chase in pursuit of the bandit Billy the Kid. If you like reading westerns, this one and The Last Outlaws are not to be missed.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. Cordingly takes a look at life among the pirates. Some of your romanticism would be squashed, but there were some good things about being a pirate too. Life among the pirates was neither black nor white; it was beige.
POLITICAL CRIMES
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson. Three kids won a 300 million dollar contract – legitimately – I must add, to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They had no money, but still they almost pulled it off. I don’t know, read this book, and if you’re a US citizen, visit the websites mentioned in the book, see if they are still doing business the same way, and if you want, you can become a supplier to the army too. Don’t forget to send me my cut (the movie War Dogs was trash).
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts. Even if you’re not a United Statian of American (USians?), chances are you might have read at least something about the execution of the Rosenberg couple as spies. This is probably the best book about the subject.
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq by Bob Drogin. How many weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? If your answer is “what’s that?” then congratulations, you’re not unlike one of your former presidents. Who told the USians that there were WMDs with Saddam? Curveball.
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Perkins was an economic hitman, who at the instruction of US intelligence agencies and giant corporations cajoled and blackmailed other country leaders to serve US foreign policy and award lucrative contracts to American businesses (now that job has been transferred to the White House).
A Kim Jong – Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer. Say you want to make a big movie for your country. But there is no one in your country who can handle such an ambitious project. What do you do? Hire some talent from other country? But you’re Kim Jong – Il. Oh. Then you just kidnap them, and force them to make the glorious movie of yours. Read this book. It’s pretty absurd (the movie they eventually made for Kim was utter shit. The Room would look like Gone with the Wind compared to that abomination).
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets… And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins. One day a man Abdul Qadeer Khan caught a plane to Pakistan from Europe. With him he had blueprints of the mechanism that could prepare weapons grade Uranium that he had stolen from the lab he worked at in the last 3 years. He would make the first atomic bomb for Pakistan with that information. Then he sold the tech to stable countries like Iran, North Korea and Libya. How can someone get away with stealing such powerful information? Read this book to find out.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen. This is a pretty controversial topic that has only gained wider acknowledgement in recent decades. Read this book to know in detail how bogus the claims of justice being served to the perpetrators of the Holocaust were. Basically, if you were a scientist, you were very likely to be acquitted from any War Crimes allegations.
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni. How did most of the Nazis who managed to escape from Germany ended up in South America? Read about the collusion of various entities and institutions that made it possible in this book.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI’s Hunt for America’s Stolen Secrets by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. This is the true story of a mole in FBI, how he attempted to sell classified information and how FBI tried to track him down.
ROBBERIES, HEISTS.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein. If there is one thief in this list that I admire, it is without a doubt, Attila Ambrus. Ambrus was known as a gentleman thief, who would ask – no, request - the teller to fill his bag with money. If you read this book, it would be hard for you to dislike Attila even though he was a thief.
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld. Bill Mason looted many famous personalities in his long career as a jewel thief. In this book he tells how he did it.
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson. Do you know there are people whose hobby is fly tying? The feathery thing that you attach to the hook to catch fish? But these are not your average fly tiers. They use feathers from exotic birds to create different ties whose total cost could run in thousands of dollars. Moreover, many of the most coveted birds are either protected or extinct. So one night a man named Edwin Rist broke into Tring museum and took hundreds of bird skins, some that belonged to Darwin, to fuel his hobby and even getting rich by selling precious feathers to other tiers. Don’t miss this book.
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by Mark Bowden. Who hasn’t dreamt of finding a big bag of money? It couldn’t have happened to a more clueless person. Joey Coyle, to be exact.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby. The theft from Antwerp that still raises many questions.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn. The truth is not that romantic.
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Pearls, more valuable than the Hope Diamond, are stolen by thieves in Edwardian London.
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. My favorite Crichton book. Stealing gold from a running train! Watch the movie too that stars the great Sean Connery.
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by Jeff Diamant. How hard is it to steal 17 million dollars? As far as these thieves were concerned, not much. Getting away with it was another thing altogether. The movie was pretty average, I think.
Into the Blast: The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Porteous, Robert Blevins. Is Tommy Wiseau DB Cooper? If only that was true. Read the book but don’t expect any clear-cut answers (I think most people would agree that the clumsy bastard died after he jumped from the plane).
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. True story of George Appo, a pickpocket living in nineteenth-century New York.
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich. A guy steals moon rocks from NASA and then had sex on them with his girlfriend (how the hell is that comfortable?)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel. The last hermit was not a hermit in true sense. He didn’t rely on land to feed himself. He stole from the nearby community. Before someone says I have spoiled the book for them, it is revealed in the first chapter that he is a thief.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The Steve Jobs impersonator, Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, and her old boyfriend, Sunny, are some of the most vile people that I have come across while reading about corporate crime. This is one of the best books that I have read this year.
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart. This is probably the most famous book written about those Wall Street scoundrels.
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb. The story of Leo Koretz, who created one of the longest running Ponzi schemes in the 1920s Chicago.
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald. Mark Whitacre becomes an FBI informant against his own corporation. But as time goes by, the FBI starts to realize that Mark is not as truthful as he seems to be, and he has his own agenda (they made a movie with Matt Damon).
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con by Guy Lawson. Sam Israel’s hedge fund was making heavy losses. So naturally, he fabricated fake returns to fool the investors. Then he heard about a secret market from where he could convert his millions into billions. That’s how he lost the last 150 million dollars of his invertors’ money.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder. Only thing you are going to learn from this book is don’t do business in Russia.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind. Bethany McLean asked one simple question in her article when everyone else was going gaga over Enron. “What does Enron actually do?” Nobody knew. Even Enron couldn’t give a specific answer. They were not just committing accounting fraud; they were looting ordinary people by creating fake shortage of electricity and driving the prices high. The documentary is worth watching too.
Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony by Gary Stephen Ross. The guy Molony debited huge amounts of money from the bank he worked at to feed his gambling addiction. Oh, and he took the money in other people’s name who held huge accounts there. This is one of the best true-crime books that I have ever read.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer. You know the man who builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Great guy, right? Krakauer doesn’t think so. And he’ll tell you why in this short book.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques. 65 billion dollars. That’s the amount that Madoff swindled from people through decades of fraud. I think I can buy a small island country with this much money. The idiot is in jail though. I don’t know, maybe after a couple of billion, skip to a country with no extradition treaty and live the rest of your life without the fear of being getting caught? But then, these types of people don’t know when to stop.
OTHER.
American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down --- My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off World’s Casinos by Richard Marcus. The guy ripped-off casinos all over the world by stealing gaming chips while maintaining an illusion of a highroller to lend his eventual take required legitimacy.
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak. Written by the daughter of a guard at Alcatraz, this book tells the story of the infamous escape from the prison island. Don’t forget to watch the classic movie too.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich. The movie 21 was based on this book. But if you want to know the real story, without the whitewashing, you have no choice but to read this book.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales estimates that there are 27 million people worldwide who live as slaves, right now. And yes, slavery still exists in United States of America in case you were wondering. This is a depressing book.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T. J. Parsell. Rape in prison is absolutely overlooked almost everywhere. Read this book if you can endure reading about helplessness page after page.
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella. Prison systems in developing world differ from the developed one in one regard that the guards and officials there are more corrupt and hence are likely to look the other way when something bad is going down amongst the inmates. Kerobokan Jail in Bali is one of the worst among those.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley. The author interviewed inmates from Leavenworth Prison for two years. The book is the result of that labor.
The Laundrymen: Inside the World’s Third Largest Business by Jeffrey Robinson. I have a perfect idea to launder money. Laser Tag! Robinson looks at the third largest business in the world. The book was published a while ago, but still hasn’t lost most of its relevancy.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer. Jon releases the Krakauer on one of the most relevant subjects of today. Rapes in colleges. These institutes would do anything to sweep things under the rug to maintain the illusion of clean image in the public eye.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover. The author worked as a prison guard for a year at one of the most notorious prisons of the United States. This book is about his experience.
submitted by Our story begins with Dr. Arnim Zola, henchman to Johann Schmidt, alias the Red Skull, leader of the leader of the Nazi wartime research organization HYDRA
1. After pretending to defect and moving to America under Project Paperclip, Zola began to secretly re-form HYDRA within the US Government, resuming not only their attempts at world domination but their twisted occult and scientific research projects as well
2. One such project delved into the feasibility of human cloning
3, with one potential end-goal being the resurrection of the Red Skull
4 or possibly even Adolf Hitler himself
5. Zola was cautious, however, unwilling to risk cloning whoever it was he intended to clone until he was sure the technology was ready. Using his newfound US Government contacts, he obtained a genetic sample from General Martin Lieber of the US Army who, coincidentally, happened to have been present at a ceremony in which Capt. Steven Rogers, alias Captain America was to receive the Medal of Valor in 1942
6 and would later encounter Howard Stark while out-of-uniform in 1946
7, as well bearing an uncanny resemblance to Earth-1218
8 comic writer Stan Lee (indeed, his resemblance could be described as not only
Uncanny but
Amazing,
Incredible, and
Fantastic as well). It remains to be seen what the eventual outcome of this line of research might have been, but Zola was left with a bunch of cloned Martin Lieber which he had to find some purpose for.
Three of these clones escaped in the mid-to-late 1950s, two of whom established false identities and careers that just happened to precisely mirror those of Earth-1218 celebrities Hugh Hefner and Larry King, encountered by Tony Stark, alias Iron Man in 2008
9 and 2010
10 respectively. This may seem unlikely, but its actually fairly common for equivalent figures on different Marvel earths to have strikingly similar names, personalities, and careers despite having wildly different backstories and parentage. Tony did not comment on the uncanny resemblance between the two, but considering that both were public figures, it's likely that by this point their resemblance was well-known, and there was nothing he could say about it that hadn't already been said.
The third escapee took a different route, taking the name Irving Forbush and joining the NYPD in the 15th precinct. Like the Earth-665 resident whose name he shared
11, Forbush turned out to have a tremendous gift for sheer dumb luck (a gift that was no doubt shared to a lesser extent by his clone brothers, explaining their improbable tendency to be in the same place as superheroes), leading to a number of improbably successful arrests that enabled him to rapidly rise to the rank of Captain and honored with a portrait at the station which went unnoticed in 2015 by both Matt Murdoch, alias Daredevil
12 and Jessica Jones
13, also spearheading a few PSA campaigns which went equally unnoticed by both Luke Cage
14 and Daniel Rand, alias Iron Fist
15 in the same year. The next year, he would find himself in the opposite situation as he failed to notice Doctor Stephan Strange and Karl Mordo as they collided with the bus he was riding on one of his off days
16. The purpose Zola was looking for emerged some time around the turn of the millennium when HYDRA's agents within NASA began to work on what would eventually become Project Distant Star Return, an attempt to send astronauts to rescue the ancient inhuman Alveus (a being worshiped by the secret society that would eventually become HYDRA) from the distant planet Maveth
17. Though Project Distant Star Return eventually ended up sending the astronauts through the portal created by the Monolith, HYDRA's researchers at NASA were aware of the Monolith's unreliability and intended to use it only as a last resort if they were unable to reach Maveth by other means. For this reason, a number of experimental spacecraft were developed to explore the possibility of exploiting such little-understood phenomena as the Bifrost Bridge
18, Universal Neural Teleportation Network
19, magical inter-dimensional portals
20, and even attempts to replicate the unique properties of the Tesseract
21. The clones of General Martin Lieber were press-ganged into serving as expendable test pilots for these craft, despite being nearly as old by this point as the original General Lieber had been in 1942.
One craft found itself stranded in space near the planet Xandar, where its clone pilot was rescued by the Nova Corps and began a new life on that planet as a swinging ladies man (considering one of his fellows' career as Earth-199999's equivalent of Hugh Hefner, it's possible that this personality trait was inherited from the original Lieber). It is here that he is breifly observed flirting with a young Xandarian lady by Rocket Racoon in 2014
22. A second craft failed to make the jump through whatever spacial phenomenon it had been intended to exploit, and crash-landed on the Earth's moon, just outside the terreformed earth-like region whose Earth-616 equivalent was known as the "Blue Area"
23, where its clone pilot was found and nursed back to health by Uatu the Watcher, becoming his companion. Due to injuries sustained during his brief time on the part of the moon outside the Blue Area's artificial atmosphere, the clone must be confined to a modified space suit in order to survive. This clone was present in the Blue Area when Yondu Udonta, Kraglin Obfonteri, Rocket Racoon, and Groot II pass through in the rapidly teleporting escape ship
Quadrant24, also in 2014.
A third craft experienced a misfire in whatever form of teleportation it had been meant to use, and as all teleportation misfires apparently seem to, it arrived on Sakaar. After receiving extensive cybernetic augmentation in an attempt to blend in with the local culture, the clone pilot got a job as a hairdresser in the employ of Grandmaster En Dwi Gast. It was in this context that Thor encountered him in 2017
25. A forth craft failed to leave earth at all, and after the HYDRA technicians finally managed to shut off its drive remotely, its clone pilot was returned to captivity. We'll get back to him in a moment.
It's unknown exactly how many experimental craft there were, or what the fates of any other test pilots might have been, if there were any. But after so many failures, it became evident to HYDRA's agents at NASA that they were going to have to use the Monolith as a means of transport after all, and the attempts to develop some sort of interstellar drive were abandoned, and in 2001, Project Distant Star Return went forward
26. Around this time, there was a mass breakout in which all of the remaining Lieber clones escaped captivity. To evade recapture and avoid arousing suspicion of being clones, they split up and cut all contact with one another, starting new lives in various different parts of the country. Many deliberately took low-profile, blue collar jobs in the belief that this sort of life would put them beneath HYDRA's notice, though the truth is that as men with no histories, they probably couldn't have gotten better jobs even if they wanted to.
One clone moved to Milwaukee. His personal history is largely unknown, but it's evident that at some point he discovered the imported Brazilian soft drink Pingo Doce and took a liking to it. In 2008 he happened to drink from a particular bottle that had been accidentally contaminated with the blood of Dr Robert Bruce Banner, alias the Incredible Hulk, who at the time was also attempting to keep a low profile in a blue collar job, working at the Rio de Janeiro plant where the beverage was bottled. The clone was hospitalized with "gamma sickness", catching the attention of the US military and giving them a lead with which to track Banner down
27. Having popped up on the US military's radar and by extension HYDRA, this clone was assassinated in hospital by HYDRA agents posing as nurses via an "accidental" morphine overdose.
A second clone moved to Puente Antiguo, New Mexico where he got a job driving a winch truck for a local mechanic. When Mjölnir landed outside of town in 2011, he participated in the town-wide attempt to remove the hammer from the ground
28. Luckily, when SHIELD arrived in town he got lost in the crowd and as a result, manged to escape their notice.
A third clone moved to New York, secure in the belief that the tremendous population of the city would make a chance encounter with HYDRA agents improbable to the point of being nearly impossible. However, in 2012 he was unlucky enough to be approached by NY-1 reporters as a "man on the street" to ask his opinion of the rumors surrounding the recent formation of the Avengers. He attempted to brush them off with a short, dismissive answer, but the brief encounter still made it onto television
29, enabling HYDRA agents to track him down and assassinating him, making it look like his death was simply collateral damage in the Battle of New York.
A forth clone moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. True to Lieber's lecherous personality, he served as the judge of a local beauty pageant attended by Tony Stark in 2013
30. Stark was not working with SHIELD at the time, and the pageant only made it onto local channels, so this clone evaded HYDRA's notice.
Following his experiences in the failed Distant Star Return launch, the forth test pilot wanted to get as far away from the US Government as he could, and eventually saved enough money for a plane ticket to London. It soon became clear to him that his exposure to the malfunctioning drive had left him more traumatized than he'd realized, and he checked himself into a mental institution. It was here that he encountered Dr. Erik Selvig in 2013 following the latter's mental breakdown
31. A sixth clone had a similar idea to the test pilot, but managed to scrape together enough cash to escape all the way to Italy, where (using the same luck that helped Captain Forbush) he made a name for himself as a high-roller at the riviera casinos. While taking a train, he encounters undercover SHIELD Agents Coulson and Simmons
32, but manages to evade HYDRA's detection twice over since neither agent is working for them, and the people who soon attack the train are merely taking bribes from a HYDRA front company, rather than being employed by HYDRA itself, and thus neither privy to HYDRA's secrets nor expected to file reports to them. Nevertheless, this encounter rattled him, and he decides to move even farther away, to South Korea, where he drew on his gambling experience to establish a new identity as a croupier at a speakeasy casino in Busan, where in 2016 he narrowly escaped a battle between King T'Challa of Wakanda, alias Black Panther, and arms dealer Ulysses Klaue
33. An eighth clone moves to San Fransisco and becomes a bartender, where in 2015 he has a brief encounter with Ignacio, cousin to Scott-Lang (alias Ant-Man)'s friend Luis.
34 A ninth clone decides to take a different route, hiding in plain sight within spitting distance of HYDRA's stronghold in Washington DC, in the employ of the US Government no less, as a security guard at the Smithsonian Institute, on the grounds that HYDRA would never think to look there since they'd assume he wouldn't be stupid enough to try it. Though he loses his job in 2014 after failing to prevent the theft of the original Captain America costume by Natalia Alianovna Romanoff, alias the Black Widow
35, he survives long enough to see the overwhelming majority of the arm of HYDRA that had been infiltrating the US Government brought down by the combined efforts of Captain America, Black Widow, and Samuel Wilson, alias the Falcon.
With news of HYDRA's defeat, many of the clones cease attempting to hide, but they don't abandon the lives they've taken up, as they've become integral to their identities. Captain Forbush, who through his trademark dumb luck had obtained a hat incorrectly identifying him as a member of a group of WWII vets who Captain America had invited to a party at Avengers Tower in 2015, and was unafraid to go with them (though perhaps he should've been, judging by his reaction to trying Asgardian whiskey
36. Another clone, who had gotten a job as a FedEx man, willingly delivers a package to "Tony Stank" (sic.) at the New Avengers Facility in New York
37 (this New York-dwelling clone was almost certainly the same one who witnessed Peter Parker, alias Spider-Man attempting to stop a presumed car theft from his apartment window earlier that same year
38, as that one was called Gary and therefore is unlikely to have been the same person as Irving Forbush).
'Nuff said.
Footnotes: - Captain America: The First Avenger
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier - The Official Game
- This never came to fruition in the MCU (Earth-199999), but did on Earth-616 (the primary Marvel Comics universe), as seen in the Uncanny Avengers comic book, enabling the reintroduction of the Red Skull as a villain in the present day.
- Another scheme of Zola's that came to fruition only on Earth-616, resulting in the villain Hate-Monger, who debuted in the pages of Fantastic 4. While this may seem unlikely to have been Earth-199999 Zola's goal, as the MCU version of HYDRA had specifically divorced itself from Hitler's Nazi Party, since Hitler's desire for global conquest conflicted with Schmidt's own desire for the same, seeing the Fuhrur demoted to the position of his subordinate would no doubt have appealed to Zola's ego.
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Agent Carter, Season 1
- I.E. real life
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- A gofer at Mable Comics, appearing in the comic book Not Brand Echh, who used this gift to fight crime (mostly by accident) as the (poorly) masked vigilante Forbush Man.
- Daredevil, Season 1
- Jessica Jones, Season 1
- Luke Cage, Season 1
- Iron Fist, Season 1
- Doctor Strange
- Agents of SHIELD, Season 3
- Thor
- Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
- Doctor Strange
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- So named after being discovered by the Fantastic Four, who have yet to make their appearance in the MCU.
- Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Agents of SHIELD, Season 3
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor
- The Avengers
- Iron Man 3
- Thor: The Dark World
- Agents of SHIELD, Season 1
- Black Panther
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
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books.
ART THIEVES, FORGERS, SMUGGLERS. The Art of the Steal by
Christopher Mason. A true story about the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s and how they conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars.
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by
Benjamin Wallace. The most expensive bottle of wine and the conflicting reports about its history. This is a book that would enchant wine conessi… conues… lovers.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by
Ulrich Boser. Author Ulrich Boser looks at the unsolved art theft case of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by
John Vaillant. Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-activist, fells a unique 165 feet Sitka spruce in an act of protest. John Vaillant takes the readers into the heart of North America’s last great forest to find out why he did that.
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by
Susan Ronald. Hildebrand Gurlitt was an art thief, or as he put it himself, an ‘official dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels. But he stole from the Jews and Nazis alike. This book was published after his hoard was recently (2013) discovered which created an international furor.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by
Matthew Hart. This book is about the art theft at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986. The suspect, a gangster named Martin Cahill, played cat and mouse with police for years.
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by
Miles Harvey. When you think about stealing some valuable art, do maps come to your mind? Then this book is for you. Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr. stole numerous centuries-old maps from research libraries in US and Canada.
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by
Frank Wynne. Han van Meegeren became so much adapt at forging Vermeer paintings that it is said that even professional experts would find it difficult to point out his works from the originals. He earned more than $50 million by selling his forgeries – and he even swindled the Nazis.
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by
Bryan Christy. Reptile smuggling is a big “business”. The author, a federal agent, suspected a reptile business owner of being a major smuggler and he started investigating. It was not as simple as it sounds because at one point he was chased by a mother alligator and even bitten by a python.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by
Vernon Silver. A 2500 year old cup made by the Greek master Euphronios which depicted the fall of Troy gets stolen and sold (along with 3 other such vessels). Then due to the questionable practice of some art dealers, no one can track down its last known owner.
The Lost Painting by
Jonathan Harr. With nothing better to do, the author embarks on a journey to discover a Caravaggio painting which was lost to time two hundred years ago.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by
Allison Hoover Bartlett. John Charles Gilkey stole rare books not because he wanted to make profit as most thieves do, but because he loved books. I guess if you want to call yourself a book-reader but don’t actually want to say… read a book, you could just steal them and show them off to your friends. But who are we to question the wisdom of “booklovers”, right?
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by
Susan Orlean. If you thought that stealing maps is a weird “job” to have, how about stealing a rare breed of flower? We all know about the
Tulipomania that gripped Netherlands in the 1630s. But this is a modern tale, and the book is perhaps one of the most popular ones on this list.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by
Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. This book is about Robert K. Wittman, FBI’s founder of the Art Crime Team and his undercover missions around the world to rescue various pieces of stolen art.
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by
Laney Salisbury. You could have a Jackson Pollock lying around in your basement, but if you can’t prove that the piece is real, you might as well use it as a table cloth (I might have exaggerated there a bit, but you get the point). John Myatt, a struggling artist, and John Drewe, a conman who knew the importance of Provenance in the art world, duped many people and museums by creating a fake paper trial that seemed to prove that the art was a real thing and not a forgery. So much so that the experts believe that there might still be some fake paintings created by Myatt displayed in prominent places as the real thing.
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by
Edward Dolnick. Dolnick writes about the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and the subsequent investigation that took place to track it down.
Selling Hitler by
Robert Harris In mid-eighties, Hitler’s diaries were “discovered” and many experts fell for the con. The backpeddling many did when it was revealed that the diaries were not real is really amusing to read about.
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty by
Craig Welch. This book is about the poaching of a larger-than-life clam – a Geoduck, to be precise, and the subsequent chase from the wildlife police to nab the poacher.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World by
Roger Atwood. This book provides a sweeping history of thefts of various priceless antiques.
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece by
Noah Charney. The twelve panel oil-painting of the Mystic Lamb is the most frequently stolen artwork in the world. It was stolen 13 times. One wonders whether they could have guarded it a little better after the first couple of times, you know. Anyway, this book describes the events of each theft.
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by
Jennie Erin Smith. Two reptile smugglers compete against each other to conquer the illegal trade for themselves. The funny thing is, the Zoos stood against them in the courts, but they had no problem buying rare fauna from the two smugglers, sometimes simultaneously.
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by
Frances Dinkelspiel. A massive fire destroyed wines worth $250 million in a California warehouse, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. It was done by a conman named Mark Anderson, who rented storage space at the same warehouse. This book tells why he did that and also goes into the surprisingly bloody history of wine trade in California. (reads well with cranberry juice).
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by
R. A. Scotti. On August 21, 1911, a man walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa tucked inside his coat (should have painted it bigger, eh Vinci?). I am not going to spoil this book for anyone. Read it if you want to know whether Mona Lisa was recovered or was lost to time forever.
CARTELS, GANGS, UNDERWORLD. American Desperado: My Life --- From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by
Jon Roberts, Evan Wright. Jon Roberts, who starred in documentary
Cocaine Cowboys tells his story to the journalist Evan Wright in this book. Roberts smuggled drugs to Miami for the Medellin Cartel (which will feature many times in this category).
At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by
William C. Rempel. This is
Narcos Season 3, basically. Remember the family guy who gets involved with the Cali Cartel and mops around for the whole season even though he had an unbelievably hot wife who was clearly out of his league? That character was based on Rempel. And if I must say so, the book is more compelling than that season of
Narcos. Nothing can beat Agent Pena, though.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by
Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill. The story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – the head of the Irish Mob in Boston - who became an informant for the FBI and chaos ensued. Depp plays Whitey Bulger in the movie adaptation with a soggy tortilla glued to his face as make-up.
Blow: How a Small -Town Bay Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by
Bruce Porter. Another book where Johnny Depp plays the main character in the movie adaptation. This book is about George Jung, who after meeting Carlos Lehder, started selling cocaine in the United States through Medellin Cartel.
Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by
Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell. Paul Keany was caught smuggling half-a-million euro worth of cocaine into Venezuela. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Now, prisons everywhere aren’t exactly fun places to be, but
Los Teques where Keany was incarcerated was nothing short of hell on earth.
Confessions of a Yakuza by
Junichi Saga. Junichi Saga was a doctor by profession. A patient, who was a former Yakuza, recounted his life story before him. Saga recorded the conversations, and broke doctor-patient confidentiality by writing this book.
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by
Mark Bowden. A dentist named Larry Lavin builds the foundation for a cocaine empire in the United States.
Donnie Brasco by
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover for six years to infiltrate the Mafia. Do watch the movie too, it is Depp’s last movie without weird make-up.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by
Ioan Grillo. Journalist Ioan Grillo has written, arguably, the definitive book on Mexican drug cartels. Why he is still alive is anybody’s guess.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rouge Sociologist Takes to the Streets by
Sudhir Venkatesh. Venkatesh, who was a sociology grad student at the time, infiltrated one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. This is one of a kind type of book.
Gomorrah by
Roberto Saviano. This book is about the Italian Crime Network called
Camorra in Naples, Italy. Due to his intensive investigative journalism which exposed lot of insider information about the crime syndicate, author Saviano still has to live under constant police protection.
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by
Alex Perry. This is a recent book, where the author Alex Perry looks inside the ruthless
Calabrian Mafia of Italy and three women who want to save their own and their children’s lives. This is a fascinating and courageous look into an aspect of the Mafia which is often overlooked by most.
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most Wanted Drug-Lord by
Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century. Remember when Joaquin Guzman was caught for the first time and then he escaped and then he was caught again for good? Yes? Then read this one. But this book only focuses on the operation that nabbed him for the first time. I must warn you though – the author, Andrew Hogan – is really really in love with himself and it seeps into his writing.
The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel by
Robert Mazur. Mazur went undercover and actually became a money launderer for Pablo Escobar. This book is more about how bankers actively helped to launder the drug money and how Mazur helped to bring them down.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by
Mark Bowden. This is the best book about tracking and eventually killing Pablo Escobar. And as Walter Jr. pointed out to Walter White, it focuses on the good guys, not the bad ones. Good companion book to
Pablo Escobar: My Father written by Escobar’s son.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail by
Rusty Young. The author stays inside San Pedro jail for months with a drug smuggler to chronicle his tale. This is one of the most popular books written on cocaine smuggling.
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by
Misha Glenny. This is a thorough investigation into organized crime worldwide which accounts for 1/5th of total GDP of the world. This book would please readers who are into extensively researched true-crime history books, not so much a casual reader (inb4 - I just read 5 pages of McMafia and wow… just wow).
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade by
Edward Bunker. Edward Bunker had had an eventful life. Incarceration for two and a half decades, being on FBI’s most wanted list, and being a crime novelist. This is his autobiography.
Mr. Nice by
Howard Marks. Howard Marks started dealing dope in small quantities while he was studying at Oxford – as you do – and then eventually graduated to dealing it in tons (what the hell was he studying there? Oh, philosophy). This is his fascinating story.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by
Anabel Hernandez. Yet another book that resulted in the author getting death threats. This proves the old cliché true that the pen is mightier than the sword; until the sword comes down and cuts your neck. That’s why the author has to live under constant protection.
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by
Tom Wainwright. Any aspiring drug lords should read this instruction manual. Just kidding. Wainwright goes deep into the functioning of various drug cartels and at the end also comes up with a plan to defeat them.
News of a Kidnapping by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Little known author tries his hand at true-crime. Pablo Escobar kidnapped 10 journalists when he was on the run from the authorities. This book revolves around that event.
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy by
Chandan Nandy. On a December night in 1995, someone airdropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, West Bengal. Who did it and why? This book tells the story about one of India’s greatest ever security breaches.
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by
Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton. Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the notorious biker gang. This is his story.
Pablo Escobar: My Father by
Juan Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo is an architect and lives and practices his trade in Argentina. Even though Pablo was his father, Juan does not try to justify his actions even a little bit. This is one of the best books written on Pablo Escobar.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by
Patrick Radden Keefe. Sister Ping, leader of the Chinese underworld in the US, earned $40 million a year smuggling people from China. Told from the viewpoints of gangsters, investigators, and poor immigrants alike, this book provides a unique window into the world of human smuggling.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History by
Michael D. Blutrich. I am disappointed that they went with FBI instead of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the title. Should have made it longer.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City on the 34th Street Just Opposite the Starbucks, Was Extorted out of 4.54 Millions and 55 Cents Plus Taxes by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in Federal Bureau of Investigation History by
Michael Dostoyevsky Blutrich Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by
Jake Adelstein. The author, working as a reporter in Japan, writes about the seedy underbelly of crime in the country.
The Untouchables by
Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley.
Where’s Nitty? He’s in the car.” Great movie. How Eliot Ness and his team started the downward spiral in criminal career of Al Capone. A somewhat embellished account was also written in the book, but nonetheless, it is a gripping tale.
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand by
K. Vijay Kumar. Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was the last big outlaw of India. A sandalwood smuggler who lived in the forest to evade the police, Veerappan killed hundreds of policemen and civilians. K. Vijay Kumar, the officer who led the task force that ultimately brought down the brigand, is the author of this book.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by
Nicholas Pileggi.
” I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? Goodfellas is perhaps the best Mafia movie ever made, so read it in his own words why Pileggi might
fold under questioning.
Zero Zero Zero by
Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss. This Saviano guy must have a death wish. But as a handsome list-writer once eloquently said, “If bitten already by a King Cobra, what difference it makes if you French kiss a Black Mamba?” Since the publication of his book on the Italian crime syndicate, Saviano has to live under constant police protection. So to make sure they don’t slack off, he wrote a book on Cocaine Cartel, this time acquiring lots of admirers in Latin America.
CONMEN, IMPOSTORS.
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by
Jason Kersten. The Art of making money is to make other people work for you; not the other way round. But more scrupulous method of making money would be to counterfeit it. Art Williams did exactly that.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by
Frank W. Abagnale. Maybe the most popular book on this list, Abagnale Jr.’s book is not to be missed even if you have watched the movie starring the actor who had sex with a bear (no, not Tormund).
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by
Pope Brock. One “Dr.” John R. Brinkley, set-up a medical practice to surgically insert goat glands in human testicles to restore their fading sex drive. I am not joking, this happened.
Conman: A Master Swindler’s Own Story by
J. R. Weil, W. T. Brannon. Known as “Yellow Kid” Weil was a master conman, who duped public of more than $8 million 100 years ago. He’s called by many as the greatest conman of all time (second to the companies that charge service fees on the internet, of course).
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by
Peter Fenton. Fenton was a math student until he turned into a carnival con artist. How many bananas he stole from the monkeys? How many bales of potatoes from the elephants? Read this book to find out.
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by
Sarah Wise. If you have any annoying friends who romanticize the Victorian era and say that they would have liked to live there, tell them to read this book and get back to you after that.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by
Mark Seal. This is the true story of one of the greatest impostors of all time. The man could have impersonated a chihuahua if he wanted to.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by
James Francis Johnson. Viktor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. I still have the relevant papers that my great grandfather left us. I’m going to shift it to Nauru or Detroit.
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by
Amy Reading. This is a revenge story of a man who sets out to con the conmen who conned him twice. Unfortunately, the book could have been written better, but it is still worth having a look at.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by
Elizabeth Greenwood. I once tried playing dead in a meeting when asked about the progress on my project. But there are people who fake their death for lesser gains, such as insurance fraud and debt fraud. Author Elizabeth Greenwood journeys into the dark world of death fraud to find out more.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by
Mitchell Zuckoff. Charles Ponzi was so successful in duping people that we have immortalized his name by terming such swindles after him. At one point, he was raking in $2 millions a week. How many weeks would it take you to earn 2 million dollars at your current income? (sorry, that got heavy fast. It hurt me too).
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by
Karl Sabbagh. One botanist claimed that some species of plants on the islands south of Scotland survived the last Ice Age. Another botanist doubted him. This might not sound like a big fraud if you are not into plants, but believe me when I say that the 2 botanists who just read this threw their phones away in disgust and disbelief.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by
Gregg Olsen. A quack doctor named Linda Hazard developed a technique called “fasting treatment”. The story focuses on two sisters who fell for the quack’s assurances that they would be cured of all the diseases - real or imagined. This book is quite infuriating to read. Hazard was a despicable human being.
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats by
Bee Wilson. Wilson looks from ancient Rome to current times for food frauds. And she finds them aplenty (companion read - while having a nice snack).
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by
Michael Farquhar. This is a good bathroom book about fakers through history.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by
Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. Have you heard about Tania Head? If you haven’t, I urge you to skip this book. Tania Head duped survivors of 9/11 and the whole world alike into believing that she was one of the survivors from the South Tower of World Trade Center. I feel enraged just by typing this. So just read this book if you want to know more about her. There are a couple of documentaries out there too.
HACKERS. The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by
Clifford Stoll. Long before internet became a place for cat memes, Cliff Stoll was working at a research lab as a systems manager. One day he found 75 cents of accounting error. This made him alert that an unauthorized person was logging into the system. Thus began his lone effort of tracking down the spy.
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by
Phil Lapsley. Before there was internet, or even personal computers, mobsters and teenagers hacked the telephone system.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by
Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. The book tells the story of one of the best hackers of all times, Kevin Mitnick, and his cat and mouse game with the FBI.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by
David Enrich. A group of bankers manipulated daily interest rates just a fraction here and there on loans worth trillions of dollars and made some serious cash for themselves. This book also rocks one of the ugliest book covers of 2017.
MUTINEERS, PIRATES, OUTLAWS. Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny by
Mike Dash. I was torn whether to include this book in the list as the history of Batavia’s mutiny is littered with corpses. But as the focus is on the mutiny, I am going to keep it here. This event could give the Medusa’s raft a run for its money.
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts by
Sian Rees. Poor girls in England, most of who were petty thieves, were given a chance to sail to Botany Bay in Australia to create a new life for themselves and the male population of New South Wales. But the real story happened at the sea on board the ship
Lady Julian.
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by
Thom Hatch.
Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty. The book might not be full of memorable dialogues as the movie, but if you want to know more about the legendary outlaws, give this book a chance.
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by
Kathy Marks. Mutiny of the
Bounty is perhaps the most infamous of mutinies that occurred at sea. Even after the event and hundreds of years later, the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his sailors continue to live a crime-filled life like their forefathers on Pitcairn Island.
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by
Richard Zacks. This book will change your perception of Captain Kidd, that’s for sure.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by
Mark Lee Gardner. This non-fiction book concentrates on Sheriff Pat Garrett’s chase in pursuit of the bandit Billy the Kid. If you like reading westerns, this one and
The Last Outlaws are not to be missed.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by
David Cordingly. Cordingly takes a look at life among the pirates. Some of your romanticism would be squashed, but there were some good things about being a pirate too. Life among the pirates was neither black nor white; it was beige.
POLITICAL CRIMES Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by
Guy Lawson. Three kids won a 300 million dollar contract – legitimately – I must add, to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They had no money, but still they almost pulled it off. I don’t know, read this book, and if you’re a US citizen, visit the websites mentioned in the book, see if they are still doing business the same way, and if you want, you can become a supplier to the army too. Don’t forget to send me my cut (the movie
War Dogs was trash).
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by
Sam Roberts. Even if you’re not a United Statian of American (USians?), chances are you might have read at least something about the execution of the Rosenberg couple as spies. This is probably the best book about the subject.
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq by
Bob Drogin. How many weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? If your answer is “what’s that?” then congratulations, you’re not unlike one of your former presidents. Who told the USians that there were WMDs with Saddam? Curveball.
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by
John Perkins. Perkins was an economic hitman, who at the instruction of US intelligence agencies and giant corporations cajoled and blackmailed other country leaders to serve US foreign policy and award lucrative contracts to American businesses (now that job has been transferred to the White House).
A Kim Jong – Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by
Paul Fischer. Say you want to make a big movie for your country. But there is no one in your country who can handle such an ambitious project. What do you do? Hire some talent from other country? But you’re Kim Jong – Il. Oh. Then you just kidnap them, and force them to make the glorious movie of yours. Read this book. It’s pretty absurd (the movie they eventually made for Kim was utter shit.
The Room would look like
Gone with the Wind compared to that abomination).
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets… And How We Could Have Stopped Him by
Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins. One day a man Abdul Qadeer Khan caught a plane to Pakistan from Europe. With him he had blueprints of the mechanism that could prepare weapons grade Uranium that he had stolen from the lab he worked at in the last 3 years. He would make the first atomic bomb for Pakistan with that information. Then he sold the tech to stable countries like Iran, North Korea and Libya. How can someone get away with stealing such powerful information? Read this book to find out.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by
Annie Jacobsen. This is a pretty controversial topic that has only gained wider acknowledgement in recent decades. Read this book to know in detail how bogus the claims of justice being served to the perpetrators of the Holocaust were. Basically, if you were a scientist, you were very likely to be acquitted from any War Crimes allegations.
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by
Uki Goni. How did most of the Nazis who managed to escape from Germany ended up in South America? Read about the collusion of various entities and institutions that made it possible in this book.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI’s Hunt for America’s Stolen Secrets by
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. This is the true story of a mole in FBI, how he attempted to sell classified information and how FBI tried to track him down.
ROBBERIES, HEISTS. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by
Julian Rubinstein. If there is one thief in this list that I admire, it is without a doubt, Attila Ambrus. Ambrus was known as a gentleman thief, who would ask – no, request - the teller to fill his bag with money. If you read this book, it would be hard for you to dislike Attila even though he was a thief.
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by
Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld. Bill Mason looted many famous personalities in his long career as a jewel thief. In this book he tells how he did it.
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by
Kirk W. Johnson. Do you know there are people whose hobby is fly tying? The feathery thing that you attach to the hook to catch fish? But these are not your average fly tiers. They use feathers from exotic birds to create different ties whose total cost could run in thousands of dollars. Moreover, many of the most coveted birds are either protected or extinct. So one night a man named Edwin Rist broke into Tring museum and took hundreds of bird skins, some that belonged to Darwin, to fuel his hobby and even getting rich by selling precious feathers to other tiers. Don’t miss this book.
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by
Mark Bowden. Who hasn’t dreamt of finding a big bag of money? It couldn’t have happened to a more clueless person. Joey Coyle, to be exact.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by
Scott Andrew Selby. The theft from Antwerp that still raises many questions.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by
Jeff Guinn. The truth is not that romantic.
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by
Molly Caldwell Crosby. Pearls, more valuable than the Hope Diamond, are stolen by thieves in Edwardian London.
The Great Train Robbery by
Michael Crichton. My favorite Crichton book. Stealing gold from a running train! Watch the movie too that stars the great Sean Connery.
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by
Jeff Diamant. How easy is it to steal 17 million dollars? As far as these thieves were concerned, not much. Getting away with it was another thing altogether. The movie was pretty average, I think.
Into the Blast: The True Story of DB Cooper by
Skipp Porteous, Robert Blevins. Is Tommy Wiseau DB Cooper? If only that was true. Read the book but don’t expect any clear-cut answers (I think most people would agree that the clumsy bastard died after he jumped from the plane).
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by
Timothy J. Gilfoyle. True story of George Appo, a pickpocket living in nineteenth-century New York.
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by
Ben Mezrich. A guy steals moon rocks from NASA and then had sex on them with his girlfriend (how the hell is that comfortable?)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by
Michael Finkel. The last hermit was not a hermit in true sense. He didn’t rely on land to feed himself. He stole from the nearby community. Before someone says I have spoiled the book for them, it is revealed in the first chapter that he is a thief.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by
John Carreyrou. The Steve Jobs impersonator, Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, and her old boyfriend, Sunny, are some of the most vile people that I have come across while reading about corporate crime. This is one of the best books that I have read this year.
Den of Thieves by
James B. Stewart. This is probably the most famous book written about those Wall Street scoundrels.
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by
Dean Jobb. The story of Leo Koretz, who created one of the longest running Ponzi scheme in the 1920s Chicago.
The Informant by
Kurt Eichenwald. Mark Whitacre becomes an FBI informant against his own corporation. But as time goes by, the FBI starts to realize that Mark is not as truthful as he seems to be, and he has his own agenda (they made a movie with Matt Damon).
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con by
Guy Lawson. Sam Israel’s hedge fund was making heavy losses. So naturally, he fabricated fake returns to fool the investors. Then he heard about a secret market from where he could convert his millions into billions. That’s how he lost the last 150 million dollars of his invertors’ money.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by
Bill Browder. Only thing you are going to learn from this book is don’t do business in Russia.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind. Bethany McLean asked one simple question in her article when everyone else was going gaga over Enron. “What does Enron actually do?” Nobody knew. Even Enron couldn’t give a specific answer. They were not just committing accounting fraud; they were looting ordinary people by creating fake shortage of electricity and driving the prices high. The documentary is worth watching too.
Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony by
Gary Stephen Ross. The guy Molony debited huge amounts of money from the bank he worked at to feed his gambling addiction. Oh, and he took the money in other people’s name who held huge accounts there. This is one of the best true-crime books that I have ever read.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by
Jon Krakauer. You know the man who builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Great guy, right? Krakauer doesn’t think so. And he’ll tell you why in this short book.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by
Diana B. Henriques. 65 billion dollars. That’s the amount that Madoff swindled from people through decades of fraud. I think I can buy a small island country with this much money. The idiot is in jail though. I don’t know, maybe after a couple of billion, skip to a country with no extradition treaty and live the rest of your life without the fear of being getting caught? But then, these types of people don’t know when to stop.
OTHER. American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down --- My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off World’s Casinos by
Richard Marcus. The guy ripped-off casinos all over the world by stealing gaming chips while maintaining an illusion of a highroller to lend his eventual take required legitimacy.
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by
Jolene Babyak. Written by the daughter of a guard at Alcatraz, this book tells the story of the infamous escape from the prison island. Don’t forget to watch the classic movie too.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by
Ben Mezrich. The movie
21 was based on this book. But if you want to know the real story, without the whitewashing, you have no choice but to read this book.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by
Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales estimates that there are 27 million people worldwide who live as slaves, right now. And yes, slavery still exists in United States of America in case you were wondering. This is a depressing book.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by
T. J. Parsell. Rape in prison is absolutely overlooked almost everywhere. Read this book if you can endure reading about helplessness page after page.
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail by
Kathryn Bonella. Prison systems in developing world differ from the developed one in one regard that the guards and officials there are more corrupt and hence are likely to look the other way when something bad is going down amongst the inmates. Kerobokan Jail in Bali is one of the worst among those.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by
Pete Earley. The author interviewed inmates from Leavenworth Prison for two years. The book is the result of that labor.
The Laundrymen: Inside the World’s Third Largest Business by
Jeffrey Robinson. I have a perfect idea to launder money. Laser Tag! Robinson looks at the third largest business in the world. The book was published a while ago, but still hasn’t lost most of its relevancy.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by
Jon Krakauer. Jon releases the Krakauer on one of the most relevant subjects of today. Rapes in colleges. These institutes would do anything to sweep things under the rug to maintain the illusion of clean image in the public eye.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by
Ted Conover. The author worked as a prison guard for a year at one of the most notorious prisons of the United States. This book is about his experience.
submitted by Police on Jeju Island investigating a massive theft of cash from a casino said Thursday they retrieved what appeared to be the bulk of the stolen money and are tracking down three suspects. The police investigation began Jan. 4, when Jeju Shinhwa World, one of Korea's largest integrated resorts, disclosed the mysterious disappearance of Korean cash worth 14.56 billion won ($13.38 million) from ... South Korean police arrest one suspect in theft of $13.4m from Landing International's Jeju Shinhwa casino. Police in South Korea has launched manhunt for a Malaysian worker after $13.38 million went missing from a casino in the tourist island of Jeju. The female employee reportedly belonged to the ... Police in South Korea are searching for three suspects in a casino theft case after finding a combined KRW12bn ($10.9m) in stolen cash at two locations. Police launched their investigation on January 4 when South Korean casino and resort developer Landing International Development reported the missing funds, totaling KRW14.56bn ($13.4m). The Korea Times reported that the casino had allegedly not noticed the theft, due to the large amount of cash already stored within the safe.. Jeju has hosted many high-profile poker festivals including the Triton Super High Roller Series Money Discovered. The latest developments came on Friday when authorities announced they had recovered ₩12bn (US$10.9m) in cash from two locations. South Korean police are on the hunt for a female casino executive who disappeared after her employer discovered 14.6 billion won ($13 million) in cash missing from the resort’s coffer. South Korean police are reportedly hunting down a Malaysian after a huge load of cash went missing from a casino earlier this week. According to The Wall Street Journal , the Jeju Shinhwa World, one of the largest resorts in the popular tourist island of Jeju, lodged a report with the authorities earlier this week regarding the missing money, said to be worth around 14 billion won (RM52 million). The largest-denomination bill in South Korea is the 50,000-won (RM184) note, and if the money that went missing from the casino was all in 50,000-won notes, the haul would have comprised of ... JEJU: A Malaysian executive at a resort casino on Jeju Island in South Korea has become the key suspect in the theft of more than RM50 million from the resort. The discovery of a pile of cash worth 8.1 billion won that was unaccounted for linked the executive to the theft. South Korea; Landing Jeju casino theft becomes major media story. By. Michael Penn - January 13, 2021. It may not precisely be Ocean’s Eleven, but the theft from the casino at Landing International Development’s Jeju Shinhwa World has nevertheless captured the imagination of both the Korean domestic and the international news media.
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