Police story

POLICE STORY Synopsis: The world's # one action star is back. In Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Kevin (Chan), a heroic cop with the Hong Kong Police Department, is assigned to guard a key witness in the trial of a mobster he single-handedly captured. But the tables are turned when Kevin is duped by the comely witness. The drug boss is then released for lack of evidence, and Kevin is framed for murder.  This entertaining action film pawned a successful franchise and is widely considered to be one of Chan's best movies.   Starring: Jackie Chan   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

POLICE STORY COLLECTION Synopsis: POLICE STORY: The world's # one action star is back. In Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Kevin (Chan), a heroic cop with the Hong Kong Police Department, is assigned to guard a key witness in the trial of a mobster he single-handedly captured. But the tables are turned when Kevin is duped by the comely witness. The drug boss is then released for lack of evidence, and Kevin is framed for murder. This entertaining action film pawned a successful franchise and is widely considered to be one of Chan's best movies. POLICE STORY 2: The world's number one action is back. POLICE STORY 2 finds super-cop Kevin once again at odds with his superiors over his unorthodox, yet effective, tactics. Demoted to a traffic officer, Kevin learns that the mob kingpin he put behind bars is out--and craving revenge! With the mix of high-flying action and hilarious slapstick one expects of a Chan picture. Kevin proceeds on a mission to thwart the criminal's evil bombing plot while trying to keep his beautiful girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) out of harm's way. POLICE STORY 3: Jackie Chan is back in his latest action movie. Meet the cop that can't be stopped! Action superstar Jackie Chan is back and hotter than ever in this explosive, thrill-a-minute hit! Now, Jackie's undercover and out of control on a high-stakes mission to take down a powerful drug lord in the crime capital of the world! Whether it's leaping from a ten-story building onto an airborne helicopter or landing on top of a speeding train, there's no job too tough for this hero...who'll do whatever it takes to uphold justice!     Starring: Jackie Chan Daniel Wu   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 13 V

POLICE STORY 2 Synopsis: The world's number one action is back. POLICE STORY 2 finds super-cop Kevin once again at odds with his superiors over his unorthodox, yet effective, tactics. Demoted to a traffic officer, Kevin learns that the mob kingpin he put behind bars is out--and craving revenge! With the mix of high-flying action and hilarious slapstick one expects of a Chan picture. Kevin proceeds on a mission to thwart the criminal's evil bombing plot while trying to keep his beautiful girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) out of harm's way.    Starring: Jackie Chan   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

POLICE STORY 3 Synopsis: Jackie Chan is back in his latest action movie. Meet the cop that can't be stopped! Action superstar Jackie Chan is back and hotter than ever in this explosive, thrill-a-minute hit! Now, Jackie's undercover and out of control on a high-stakes mission to take down a powerful drug lord in the crime capital of the world!  Whether it's leaping from a ten-story building onto an airborne helicopter or landing on top of a speeding train, there's no job too tough for this hero...who'll do whatever it takes to uphold justice!    Starring: Jackie Chan   Michelle Yoeh   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: PG

EW POLICE STORY Synopsis: 24th Hong Kong Film Awards • Nomination - Best Picture • Nomination - Best Director (Benny Chan Muk-Sing) • Nomination - Best Actor (Jackie Chan) • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu) • Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai) • Nomination - Best Action Design (Li Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stuntman Association) • Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Kinson Tsang Kin-Cheung) • Nomination - Best Visual Effects (Wong Won-Tak, Ho Chi-Fai) 41st Annual Golden Horse Awards • Winner - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu) • Winner - Best Action Choreography (Li Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stunt Team) • Winner - Best Visual Effects (Victor Wong, Brian Ho) • Winner - Audience Choice Award • Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai) • Nomination - Best Art Direction (Wong Ching-Ching, Choo Sung-Pong, Oliver Wong) • Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Tsang King-Cheung) A New Breed Of Crime Welcome to the next generation of Police Story!  Global action superstar Jackie Chan shoots-em-up as a roguish special agent teamed with a crusty veteran cop to rescue a kidnapped business magnate. When he suspects that his partner may be involved in the abduction, Chan strikes out on his own to crack the case.  A serious action drama based on a true story.   Starring: Jackie Chan Daniel Wu   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 V

Christopher Bean was born into a police family in Yorkshire and joined the West Riding Constabulary as a cadet in 1952. For the next fifteen years or so he continued a career in the police service, in the Royal Corps of Military Police, the West Riding Constabulary, the Nyasaland Police and finally the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police. This account re-lives his experiences of those years, many of which are difficult to believe in these relatively enlightened days, and which often humorously outline life in Africa some half a century ago. Although the story starts in the Britain of the 1950's, it leads into a post-war Africa, with independence arriving in most of Africa and illustrating the enormous difference in police work in the UK in those days, and the exciting life of a colonial police officer. Paperback / 188 pages 30 b/w photos Published March 2014

 THE REGIMENT. The History and Uniform of the BSA Police - Richard Hamley - 2000 - Paperback in good, clean and tight condition. While it is generally accepted that the history of Rhodesia began in 1890, the history of that country's police force began a year earlier, in 1889. From the beginning, the Force held to the customs and traditions of a light cavalry regiment, with military ranks and disciplines and, reflecting the military ethos, laying emphasis upon a smartness of turnout and drill. The unique character of the Force developed from this time. Not only did it have to establish the rule of law, it also had to defend the borders of the country, a responsibility it held until 1953. This stunning volume, filled with the author's own vivid water color illustrations, traces the fascinating story of the British South Africa Police during its 90 year existence from 1890 to 1980.  

CRIME STORY Synopsis: 13th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards • Winner - Best Editing (Cheung Yiu-Chung) • Nomination - Best Picture • Nomination - Best Director (Kirk Wong Chi-Keung) • Nomination - Best Actor (Jackie Chan) • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Kent Cheng Juk-Si) • Nomination - Best Action Design (Jackie Chan) The Worlds number one action star is back. Jackie Chan stars in his grittiest role ever as a police detective on the edge, who races against time to solve a deadly kidnapping case. Based on the shocking true story of a billionaire abducted in a bold ambush, Crime Story pulses with tension and raw action. Director Kirk Wong (The Big Hit) deftly combines acrobatic fight choreography with edge-of-your-seat suspense to reveal an impressive new side to one of the world's greatest martial arts icons.   Starring: Jackie Chan Ken Lo   Category: Action, Martial Art   Age Restriction: 16 VL

Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary characters — William Fisher, alias Rudolf Abel, a British born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet superspy for trying to steal America's most precious nuclear secrets; Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot who was captured when his plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia; and Frederic Pryor, a young American graduate student in Berlin mistakenly identified as a spy, arrested and held without charge by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. By weaving the three strands of this story together for the first time, Giles Whittell masterfully portrays the intense political tensions and nuclear brinkmanship that brought the United States and Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the early 1960s. He reveals the dramatic lives of men drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, and the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Khrushchev to send missiles to Castro. Two of his subjects — the spy and the pilot — were the original seekers of weapons of mass destruction. The third, an intellectual, fluent in German, unencumbered by dependents, and researching a Ph.D. thesis on the foreign trade system of the Soviet bloc, seemed to the Stasi precisely the sort of person the CIA should have been recruiting. He was not. In over his head in the world capital of spying, he was wrongly charged with espionage and thus came to the Agency's notice by a more roundabout route. The three men were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten. Yet they laid bare the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years.

South Africa was under serious terrorist attacks during the 1980's. Those attacks were mainly committed by Communists and the ANC. The South African Police as the main law enforcement agency had the task of maintaining law and order in an atmosphere, where the opposing sides only paid lip service to the international accepted protocols and conventions. Queensbury rules had been thrown over board and nobody knew where the next mine, grenade, bomb or bullet would be delivered. After 1994, the so-called first democratic election which brought Nelson Mandela to power, the former terrorists became heroes and those who's duty it was to serve and protect the villains. It is against this background that the author, who is known for his expertise and objectivity endeavors, in a concise manner, to put into perspective the other side of the story. The purpose is not to justify either the means or the ends, but rather for the thinking people in society to judge for themselves. Paperback, 198 pages.  Published  1997 ***Contains graphic images - for mature readers only***

1960, First edition.  Hard cover with dust cover. 165 pages. Very good condition; neat and clean. The binding is tight. Dust cover has minor edgewear.  Under 1kg.  

In the world of espionage, truth is the first victim and nothing is as it seems. Here, for the first time, South Africas most notorious apartheid spy Olivia Forsyth lays bare the story of her remarkable life.   Olivia Forsyth was a romantic young woman in search of adventure when she joined the Security Police with visions of international derring-do. But Craig Williamson, her unit head, had other ideas and Olivia was trained to spy on students before being dispatched to Rhodes University, a supposed hotbed of anti-apartheid radicalism. It wasnt long before Olivia had infiltrated various student organisations, feeding vital information back to her handler. She came to hold prominent positions on campus and, as reward, was promoted to Lieutenant. Having reached the end of her studies, Olivia set her sights on a much more ambitious and dangerous target: the ANC in exile. But what should have been her greatest triumph as a spy turned into disaster when the ANC threw her into Quatro, the notorious internment camp in Angola. This is a riveting story set in the final years of apartheid. The Author: Olivia Forsyth was a Lieutenant in the South Africa Security Police in the 1980's. She spent four years at Rhodes University where she infiltrated various anti-apartheid organisations. Thereafter she was held in Angola by the ANC before escaping. She now lives in the United Kingdom.  

Piet Byleveld is a super detective. Honoured by the International Police Association as one of the top three detectives in the world, he has assisted the FBI, Scotland Yard, the Canadian police and Mossad with their serial-killing investigations. But it is in South Africa where he perfected his technique, solving some of the country's most famous cases and catching some of the world s most dangerous killers. In this book, journalist Hanlie Retief, who had exclusive access to Byleveld's dossiers, writes about the notorious serial-killer cases and other murders Byleveld solved. She weaves into it the story of Byleveld's own life. The book includes full-color photographs from police records throughout. It is astounding detective work told in a punchy, hard-hitting style. 270 pages

2014. Soft cover, 264 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound. Under 1kg.  This is the little known story of  Singapore's Outram Road Gaol   and the POWs who endured it. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Powerful and shocking, Stubborn Buggers tells of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the battle for Malaya, then captivity and slave labour, followed by the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai. And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death. But Stubborn Buggers is about more than suffering and brutality. It is also a tale of grit, determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit.   

INKINSELA 3 - ZULU Synopsis: One of the best Zulu drama's shown on SABC. This is part three of a 3 part series. DESCRIPTION: Mkhwanazi finally agrees to sell some cattle to Ndebenkulu. In order to play it safe only four cows are given to Ndebenkulu. Ndebenkulu is given the opportunity to address the meeting called by the chief and the men of Nyanyadu. He allays their fears about a story in the newspaper of criminals who con people out of their cattle. Following an investigation, the Ladysmith police meanwhile discovers that one C.C. Ndebenkulu is also known as E.E. Mhlomo, a cattle thief. The story ends when the long arm of the law catches up with “Inkinsela Yasemgungundlovu”.   Starring: Zulu Drama   Category: Nigerian/Sotho/Tswana/Zulu   Age Restriction: ALL AGES

ONE LONG NIGHT Synopsis: He wanted to cross the border...but the border crossed him. One Long Night is a fish out of water story about self-discovery and the challenges of being of mixed heritage.  Set at the height of California Governor Pete Wilson's regime and the proposition that tore apart Mexicans and Americans. One Long Night is the story of Richard Macedo (Jon Seda), a simple, conservative half-Mexican, half-Caucasian businessman trying to survive one night lost in a country he's never been to that should have been home to him.  He comes face to face with his Hispanic heritage when he winds up stuck in Mexico City. Kidnapped moments after his arrival, Macedo finds his "quick trip" becoming a long, twisting adventure that includes encounters with drag queens, corrupt police officers, and violent gangsters. Winner of 2 awards at the Worldfest Houston for: Best New Feature Best New Director    Starring: Jon Seda Alison Eastwood   Category: Comedy, Drama    Age Restriction: 16 LVS

A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after she goes missing, Kim McDaniels' parents receive a terrifying phone call. Fearing the worst, they board the first flight to Maui and begin the hunt for their daughter. Ex-cop Ben Hawkins, now a reporter for the LA Times, gets the McDaniels assignment. The ineptitude of the local police force defies belief - Ben has to start his own investigation for Kim McDaniels to have a prayer...and for Ben to have the story of his life. All the while, the killer sets the stage for his next production. His audience expects the best - and they won't be disappointed. Swimsuit is a heart-pounding story of fear and desire, transporting you to a place where beauty and murder collide and unspeakable horrors are hidden within paradise.

STORYBOOK CLASSICS - DR. JEKYL AND MR HIDE Synopsis: In this fantastic story of potions and pandemonium. Dr. Jekyll, famed English scientist, embarks on an experiment to extract the evil from within himself, accidentally splitting his personality in two and creating Mr. Hyde. A powerful monster whose blood-lust terrorises the city of London every night and baffles the police in the morning.   Starring: Animation   Category: Animation   Age Restriction: ALL AGES

LAPD TO PROTECT AND SERVE Synopsis: The explosive and true story, "L.A.P.D. - To Protect and to serve" is based on a hard hitting, gut wrenching look at the internal exploits in the lives of officers, men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department.   Starring: Michael Madsen Dennis Hopper   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 16 LSV

DARK WARRIOR Synopsis: Kung Fu Action With Attitude Kick-boxing & Kung-Fu "Hall Of Fame" Champion, Jason Yee, produces, writes, directs, and stars in his bone-crushing feature debut, Dark Assassin. This home-grown idie action thriller defies the odds and raises eyebrows with Yee's extraordinary talent and character-driven story. Can a man with a dark past changes his ways? It's been four years since Derek Wu (Jason Yee) took the fall for his old crime boss. Now free, all Derek wants its a new start, a chance to redeem his life by living clean. Then, Derek's old gang members turn up murdered and the police make him the prime suspect. When his former crime boss finds out he's back in town, Derek becomes a marked man. Derek finds himself on the run as he is confronted by a dark past he cannot escape! In this homage to the legendary Bruce Lee and films of the 70's, rising action star Jason Yee serves up Kung-Fu action with attitude.   Starring: Thomas Braxton Jr Jason Lee   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 16 VL

TAI CHI 4 Synopsis: While master Wong Fei Hung is away traveling, the impulsive Lau Zhai (Yuen Biao), an initiate into Wong's kung fu school, begins wandering town.  He soon allies with police chief Panther in order to offer assistance in toppling an opium distribution ring.  This is a heroic story about how Zhai became the famous "Kickboxer".      Starring: Yuen Biao  Wu Ma   Category: Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 V

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 10 working days A gripping conspiracy thriller mini-series, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Lesley Sharp, Sir Antony Sher, Rafe Spall, Kierston Wareing and Stephen Rea. Detective Inspector Jonah Gabriel takes on his first case since being shot in a botched police operation that left his partner dead. The new case involves investigating the murder of recently pardoned, drug baron Harvey Wratten. On the other side of the criminal divide, Joseph Bede, a former associate of Wratten’s, is moved to make his own enquiries. As Gabriel, dogged by amnesia and suspicious colleagues, follows a complicated line of investigation and Bede becomes increasingly desperate to see through a massive drugs operation that will enable him to step out of the business forever, the enigmatic and ruthless Gatehouse emerges from the shadows to bring the story to a shocking climax…

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime...One of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, The Devotion of Suspect X is now being discovered across the world. Its blend of a page-turning story, evocative Tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fiction. Features Summary Read the book that sold over two million copies in Japan and became a national obsession Author Keigo Higashino Publisher Abacus Release date Pages 440 ISBN ISBN

This is the story of one of the world's most effective Special Forces units told by the men who served in it. Breaking with conventional military thinking, the South African Police created Koevoet by refining the concept of the counter-insurgency group pioneered in Rhodesia during the Bush War in order to provide up-to-date intelligence about an elusive enemy. Now at last the men themselves tell their own stories of the exploits of that famous unit. The origins and history of this famous Special Forces unit, as told by the men on the ground 9 chapters 640 pages full-colour litho print 1000 photographs 200 objects of militaria 200 documents 20 maps 70 stories told by the men themselves Approved by the Koevoet Bond  Roll of Honour Honours and Awards table Citation of all gallantry awards Glossary First Edition - January 2017

The Law Provides (Story Of The Australian Mounted Police) - By E. Morrow First Edition, Hard Cover, Published By Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1937 Cover Boards Have Rubbing To The Edges, Slight Tearing To The Spine Ends & Fading To The Spine. Binding Tight & Strong. Inscription On The Front Flyleaf In Faded Black Pen. Browning & Foxing Of Pages. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote. ABE # 05777