Stories and History 34
- What It Was Like To Be a Thief in the Soviet Union
- How to Be West Africa’s Master of Political Flip-Flopping
- What It Was Like to Rob Banks in the USSR
- Did Manuel Noriega enjoy rock music?
- The CIA’s Spectacular Blunder: A Gallery of Absurd Plots to Assassinate Castro
- How much did a Soviet AK‑47 cost per pound?
- The bizarre, reckless rise and fall of Muammar Gaddafi
- Uranium, Desert and Rebellion: France’s Hidden Empire in the Sahel
- No Hail Mary Can Save Argentina
- How Somalia Lost Its Shot at Becoming East Africa’s Powerhouse
- Is the Philippine President Asia’s Richest Man?
- Haiti: A Nation Trapped in Centuries of Misrule
- The Richest Primitive Society
- Banana Republic: The Football War
- What Happens When a Scotland Fan Becomes President
- A Joke Letter That Sent a Student to Africa as a Token Dignitary
- 70000 Dollars a Night Rent Yourself a Kingdom
- Leopard‑Print, Civil Wars, Kleptocrats and Slum Fashionistas
- Buy a Dukedom for Nine Bucks?
- $220,000 to Become President of The Gambia
- The White Sheikh's Empire, and the Mercenary's Last Bow
- The Legendary Mercenary Who Shook a Continent
- How Albania’s National Pyramid Scheme Tore Apart a Country
- Albania’s Bizarre Odyssey
- What Made the Soviet Union a Superpower
- Cold‑War Legacy and the Fall of the Soviet Union
- The Rainy‑Night Moor Shooting and an Ambitious Aristocrat’s Rise
- The National‑Insurance Card Trap — the Aristocrat and the Vulnerable Stable‑Hand
- The Impossible Dead‑End — Endless Harassment and the Birth of a Murder Plot
- Hired Killers, the Dog Murder, Public Outcry and the Final Verdict
- The Locked Vault — A Luxury Tunnel Camp Under Nice
- The Heist of the Century — Twenty Men Working Rotating Shifts in the Sewers
- The Dead-End Investigation — A Bragging Photographer Becomes a Suspect
- Plea Deal, Courtroom Escape, and the Final Taunt