Bøger af Tony Thompson

An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other. Hidden away from mainstream society behind multiple layers of secrecy, mythology and a sophisticated campaign of misinformation that portrays them as nothing more than loveable rogues, the brutal truth about the biker world has long escaped public scrutiny. In reality, today's outlaw bikers are at the epicentre of a violent underworld subculture, enforced by a ruthless code of silence, and control a global criminal empire worth millions. Spanning the UK, Europe, America, Canada and Australia, OUTLAWS by Tony Thompson is a compelling, shocking and chilling story of how bikers are born and made, and how and why they die.

This book is a transformative guide designed to help you tap into the power of your mindset, align your values and goals, ignite personal growth, find inspiration, and cultivate consistency for lasting change. By integrating these key elements, you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, unlocking your full potential to create a life of success, fulfillment, and happiness in all areas of your life.

In America today, the fastest growing population in prison is not Blacks, Hispanics, or methamphetamine addicts; it is the mentally ill. We are criminalizing our brothers and our sisters, our neighbors and our friends at an alarming and increasing pace¿and are we not challenged to be their keepers? At a truly visceral level, this problem perplexes me to my very being. I am hurt and disappointed, no, perhaps that is too small an assertion for where I find myself standing as a sheriff. Disappointed is a father when a child forgets to pick up the Legos and you 'find' them at 11:00pm on your way to the bathroom, stuck to the bottom pad of your left foot. I am not disappointed, I am disrespected. That is perhaps closer to the feelings of frustration, rage, anger, insult, and the hundreds of other feelings that boil just beneath the surface of my calm façade as a law enforcement administrator. I've watched legislators pass gun bills that no one really wanted in just one session, yet for twenty years in my state we've tried to reform mental health delivery systems that nearly every state citizen recognizes is necessary, to no avail.If this book helps to add fuel to someone's efforts, if my words provide credence to a person's argument of need for support, or bolsters strength in the observations regarding the importance of mental health reform, great! If something in my stories and narrations cause someone to pay attention and listen to the choir that is likely reading this, giving their real life experiences more credibility, then all my efforts are well worth it. My goal is to champion the message that change must happen. And we can be those champions of change. In our own way, we can help implement and effect change. At the local, regional, state, and national level, our collective voices can cause change. Those who have been fighting this good fight for so long are tiring and it is time to recruit a new battalion of messengers to take up the fight.

This book is a fictional children's story about Jimbo the elephant who is feeling sad and lonely who needs someone to talk to. It's a book that encourages children to talk and share about their feelings.

Living as a normal middle class family of four, this family learns to deal with the old phrase "e;I thought that only happened to other people"e; as one of them is framed for a murder. Framed so well the entire family is forced on the run from the law in order to keep them together. Uprooting their lives, and taking on new identities, their adventures take them through hiding out in big cities to living in the wilds in the Ozark mountains. Fighting against the elements of nature to protecting one another from wild animal attacks. Finding lots of adventure and meeting many new friends along the way, and finding out the hard way that blood is not always thicker than water. Coping with deaths of family and friends as they suffer the pain they must continue their journey of protecting themselves and each other as they are each subjected to possibilities of death on their travels to the unknown, driven by destiny surviving by wit and instinct. This family leaves a lifelong favorable impression on the lands they travel and the hearts they touch. That is until the long arm of the law reaches out and tears them from the new lives they had worked so hard to create effecting so many in a devastating manner, as the children are forced by law to live with the true murderer, as ruthless as he is, and made to survive in unspeakable circumstances' protecting each other along the way as Mom and Dad are thrown in jail for a murder they did not commit. Though as the law tightens its grip, unforeseen allies formed along their journey come to the rescue.

Tony Thompson, bestselling author of GANGS, returns to the killing streets and takes us to the heart of UK gang culture. Since the publication of GANGS five years ago, the landscape of British organised crime has changed beyond all recognition. Youth violence, the drug trade and rising levels of gun crime are rarely out of the news. The country also continues to experience an influx of powerful foreign criminal syndicates who are establishing operations here in order to take advantage of Britain's global connections. Beginning on the troubled streets of the inner cities, GANG LAND takes its readers on a journey up through the underworld hierarchy until it finally reaches the very highest levels, occupied by elusive and shadowy 'Mr. Big' characters. Written using a mix of personal experiences, undercover work, primary research and cutting edge investigation, GANG LAND sheds new light onto this highly secretive, often terrifying and utterly fascinating world.

This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice. There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first began exporting marijuana in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, and over the years they smuggled vast shipments into the USA and Europe, becoming multi-millionaires in the process. In 1988, they decided to carry out one final heist that would ensure they could retire forever. However, they were intercepted by the police, and the key Ring members all had to flee to avoid being arrested. With unlimited money at their disposal and contacts in all parts of the globe, they were the ultimate fugitives. Tracking them down would call for a fifteen-year international manhunt. Tony Thompson, bestselling author of Gangland Britain and Gangs, describes their rise, fall and eventual capture in a thrilling, fast-paced true crime adventure.

* Explosive true-crime paperback original from the publishers of FRED AND ROSE (112,000 copies in print). * Testimony of the most important supergrass in British crime for 30 years.