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Author | : Arthur Jay Harris |
Publisher | : Arthur Jay Harris |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1484091183 |
Now on Netflix, #5 most watched movie on the site in its first week: Speed Kills, the movie adaptation, screen-credited as based on the book Speed Kills, by Arthur J. Harris John Travolta plays Ben Aronoff, a fictionalized Don Aronow. Everybody liked and loved Don Aronow. He was powerboating's favorite, best-known, and most flamboyant racer and boat builder, the brilliant creator and designer of the famous Cigarette go-fast boats that broke speed records on the water. In everything he did, he consistently pushed the limits, always at full throttle, testing himself. In ocean races, in the worst of conditions, he was at his best. A competitor described him: "We'd be taking a terrible pounding and I'd be almost beaten down to my knees when Don would come alongside and grin from ear to ear, then take off. God, he was so demoralizing." That was what won him two world championships. It also carried over to his reputation of being not only a ladies' man, but whose girlfriends were often married. Don was the living sales pitch for his boats - he sold magic. For the price, you could be more than you could ever imagine yourself as. You could be Don Aronow. Who bought from him? Well-off businessmen in middle age crisis - and the CIA and the Israeli Mossad - kings, presidents-for-life - and George Bush. If you're thinking James Bond, so was he - he named one of his winning boats 007. He was also Miami incarnate - everything great and dark and impenetrable and fascinating about the place. He was Bond - except he played on both sides of the law. You probably never would have known about Cigarettes had dope smugglers not preferred them. Nobody could catch them in them. Then came the Reagan-era Drug War, and Bush got Don a high-publicity federal contract to build patrol boats that were faster than those he'd sold to the smugglers. They were named Blue Thunder. The Miami Herald wrote: The man who designed the roaring Cigarette speedboats, favorite vehicle of oceangoing drug smugglers, has built a better boat, one that will snuff the Cigarettes. Watch out dopers. A crack of Blue Thunder, faster than a shiver, stable as a platform, is about to become the state of the salt-watery art on the side of the law. What did the smugglers think? Because then Don quietly and bizarrely sold his company with the contract to the biggest pot smuggler on the East Coast, Ben Kramer. It was a quintessential Miami moment - maybe the Miami moment of all time. Why did he do that? At the time, the public didn't know what he did. Years later, NBC News broke the story. Said Tom Brokaw: By the time drug agents on the trail put it all together, the Kramers and the government were already partners. That's right, the boats the Customs Service uses to catch drug smugglers were built for Customs by convicted drug dealers who used laundered drug money to buy the boat company. And you thought you'd heard everything. Actually, the feds had found out and made Aronow undo the sale. But a year later a grand jury was poised to indict Kramer, and subpoenaed Don to testify. The day before he would have, he was murdered in broad daylight. Nobody saw the shots - but they heard them, and then the high-pitched whine of his shiny white Mercedes sports coupe, the gas pedal floored by his dead foot - full throttle. And they saw the shooter's black Lincoln Town Car get away. Somebody was afraid of what he was going to say. The cops concluded it was Kramer - and everyone who thought that was right. But actually, Kramer seemed the least affected by what Don probably would have testified to - and his absence didn't stop two grand juries from indicting Kramer, and two trial juries from convicting him. Were the waters deeper than that?
Author | : Arthur Jay Harris |
Publisher | : Arthur Jay Harris |
Total Pages | : 723 |
Release | : 2016-06-09 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
SPEED KILLS: He built the fastest boats -- for royalty, the rich, spies, smugglers, Feds and a former U.S. President. Then came six shots. THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH BOOK 1: It was the crime of the decade -- and the perpetrator may have been the most notorious serial killer in history BOOK 2: 30 years after he was reported as dead, could the Walshes' little boy, Adam, actually be alive?
Author | : Laura Langbein |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1315497883 |
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author | : Lee Simon |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781453593981 |
Don’t just sit there! Do something to insure your teen driver is driving safely. Get this book and discuss it with your teen driver. Share your experience. Show him or her that you care about how he or she drives. This book guides the discussion, prevents you from feeling guilty about not knowing what to say, and changes your teen driver’s attitude about driving and be much safer. Help keep your kid be alive at 25.
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
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Author | : James Ciment |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 4653 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317459709 |
Truly comprehensive in scope - and arranged in A-Z format for quick access - this eight-volume set is a one-source reference for anyone researching the historical and contemporary details of more than 170 major issues confronting American society. Entries cover the full range of hotly contested social issues - including economic, scientific, environmental, criminal, legal, security, health, and media topics. Each entry discusses the historical origins of the problem or debate; past means used to deal with the issue; the current controversy surrounding the issue from all perspectives; and the near-term and future implications for society. In addition, each entry includes a chronology, a bibliography, and a directory of Internet resources for further research as well as primary documents and statistical tables highlighting the debates.
Author | : Fernando Bueno |
Publisher | : Prima Games |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0761552022 |
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Two Thrones, Two Princes, One Guide • All Life Upgrades exposed. • Exclusive, fully labeled maps! Find every treasure chest. • Detailed combos to keep you fighting fiercely. • Unlockable weapons detailed. • All Weapons Rated so you can decide which will serve you best. • Codes revealed!
Author | : Elaine A. Moore |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786480122 |
This book covers both sides of the debate over amphetamine prescription and use. It discusses the history of amphetamine and related stimulants; ADHD and the use of Ritalin and Adderall to treat it; related neuroenhancers; methamphetamine from Desoxyn to crystal meth; the nature of addiction and side effects; sociological effects of amphetamine compounds; and expert opinions for and against amphetamine use.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
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Total Pages | : 1542 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Jeremy Clarkson |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2007-06-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0141916850 |
Jeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars - a collection of his motoring journalism. Jeremy Clarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions on the BBC's Top Gear for twenty years. No one in the business is taller. In this collection of classic Clarkson, stretching back to the mid-1980s, he's pulled together the car columns and stories with which he made his name. As coal mines closed and house prices exploded to a soundtrack of men in make-up playing synthesizers, Jeremy was already waxing lyrical on topics as useful and diverse as: * The perils of bicycle ownership * Why Australians - not Brits - need bull bars * Why soon only geriatrics will be driving BMWs * The difficultly of deciding on the best car for your wedding * Why Jesus's dad would have owned a Nissan Bluebird * And why it is that bus lanes cause traffic jams Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: 'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out 'Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube' Evening Standard