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Why did Al Capone, the most feared crime boss in American history, end his days playing nursery rhymes to a fishing rod he could no longer recognise?

Why did Alvin Karpis, the last Public Enemy Number One, survive twenty six winters on The Rock when most men broke in two?

And how did three quiet bank robbers, on the night of June 11, 1962, dig their way out of cells the federal government swore could not be opened, and vanish into San Francisco Bay forever?

Alcatraz Decoded takes you behind the cellhouse door and into the heads of the men who lived and died there. Capone. Machine Gun Kelly. Robert Stroud, the so called Birdman, who never kept a single feather on the island and stabbed a guard at lunch without breaking conversation. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, whose patient eighteen month escape plan is still officially unsolved.

This is not the version you have seen on the documentaries. This is the psychology under the headlines. The childhood patterns. The dark triad. The reason a Brooklyn boy became Scarface and a quiet Florida farm boy paddled away from the island on a homemade raincoat raft.

You will close this book with a chilling new understanding of how ordinary children become extraordinary criminals. And you will look at the people around you, perhaps the children in your own kitchen, a little differently afterwards.

The Rock has been silent for sixty years. The men who built it, ran it, and tried to escape it have not finished speaking.

Open the cell. Step inside.

Parametre knihy

• Celý názov: Alcatraz Decoded
• Podnázov: The Untold Psychology of America's Most Notorious Prison
• Autor: Craig Beck
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 188
• EAN: 9798198699953
• ID: 52537753
• Nakladateľ: Independently published
• Hmotnosť: 236 g
• Rozmery: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Dátum vydania: 26. May 2026

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