Criminal Masterminds [antikvár]

Introduction In this book you will read about some of the most ruthless criminal masterminds ever to walk the face of the earth: Attila the Hun, Vlad the Impaler, Amold The Brain' Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Carlos the Jackal, the thirties' art forger Han van Meegeren and Frank Abagnale Junior, the con man and high-school dropout who managed to persuade the world that he had qualifications to practise as pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, among other professions. Along the way, we take a look at some of the female fiends of history, such as Countess Báthory, the sixteenth-century Slovakian murderess, who tortured hundreds of peasant girls to death in her castle, after indulging in her sexual perversions with them. There are also murderers, outlaws and thieves of the eighteenth century, like Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild, who terrorised the population of London, and when they were finally brought to justice and imprisoned, managed to escape repeatedly fi-om high-security prisons. And there are the double agents of the Cold War years in the