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Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the worlds highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the worlds most wanted? In Outlaws, Spies, and Gangsters, Laura Scandiffio chronicles eight of historys most famous manhunts, from searches for drug dealers to dictators, hackers to henchmen. Discover the danger and intrigue behind these riveting stories of daring and perseverance. Read about the great lengths authorities went to, to catch Albert Mad Trapper Johnson, an unpredictable and violent fugitive in Canadas Northwest Territories Bank robber and escape artist extraordinaire John Dillinger, Americas first Public Enemy Number One Adolf Eichmann, Hitlers right-hand man and the worlds most notorious war criminal Manuel Noriega, Panamas corrupt and tyrannical president CIA mole Aldrich Ames, whose longing for the high life led to the disappearances and murders of many of his fellow colleagues Vladimir Levin, the worlds first high-profile computer hacker Christopher Dudus Coke -- a dangerous, but also revered, Jamaican gang leader Osama bin Laden, the terrorist who became a household name after the attacks of September 11, 2001.