This is my third list for this sub. I hope you enjoy it.
ART THIEVES, FORGERS, SMUGGLERS.
The Art of the Steal by Christopher Mason. A true story about the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s and how they conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars.
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace. The most expensive bottle of wine and the conflicting reports about its history. This is a book that would enchant wine conessi… conues… lovers.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser. Author Ulrich Boser looks at the unsolved art theft case of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant. Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-activist, fells a unique 165 feet Sitka spruce in an act of protest. John Vaillant takes the readers into the heart of North America’s last great forest to find out why he did that.
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by Susan Ronald. Hildebrand Gurlitt was an art thief, or as he put it himself, an ‘official dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels. But he stole from the Jews and Nazis alike. This book was published after his hoard was recently (2013) discovered which created an international furor.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart. This book is about the art theft at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986. The suspect, a gangster named Martin Cahill, played cat and mouse with police for years.
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. When you think about stealing some valuable art, do maps come to your mind? Then this book is for you. Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr. stole numerous centuries-old maps from research libraries in US and Canada.
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne. Han van Meegeren became so much adapt at forging Vermeer paintings that it is said that even professional experts would find it difficult to point out his works from the originals. He earned more than $50 million by selling his forgeries – and he even swindled the Nazis.
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy. Reptile smuggling is a big “business”. The author, a federal agent, suspected a reptile business owner of being a major smuggler and he started investigating. It was not as simple as it sounds because at one point he was chased by a mother alligator and even bitten by a python.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver. A 2500 year old cup made by the Greek master Euphronios which depicted the fall of Troy gets stolen and sold (along with 3 other such vessels). Then due to the questionable practice of some art dealers, no one can track down its last known owner.
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. With nothing better to do, the author embarks on a journey to discover a Caravaggio painting which was lost to time two hundred years ago.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett. John Charles Gilkey stole rare books not because he wanted to make profit as most thieves do, but because he loved books. I guess if you want to call yourself a book-reader but don’t actually want to say… read a book, you could just steal them and show them off to your friends. But who are we to question the wisdom of “booklovers”, right?
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean. If you thought that stealing maps is a weird “job” to have, how about stealing a rare breed of flower? We all know about the Tulipomania that gripped Netherlands in the 1630s. But this is a modern tale, and the book is perhaps one of the most popular ones on this list.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. This book is about Robert K. Wittman, FBI’s founder of the Art Crime Team and his undercover missions around the world to rescue various pieces of stolen art.
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury. You could have a Jackson Pollock lying around in your basement, but if you can’t prove that the piece is real, you might as well use it as a table cloth (I might have exaggerated there a bit, but you get the point). John Myatt, a struggling artist, and John Drewe, a conman who knew the importance of Provenance in the art world, duped many people and museums by creating a fake paper trial that seemed to prove that the art was a real thing and not a forgery. So much so that the experts believe that there might still be some fake paintings created by Myatt displayed in prominent places as the real thing.
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick. Dolnick writes about the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and the subsequent investigation that took place to track it down.
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris In mid-eighties, Hitler’s diaries were “discovered” and many experts fell for the con. The backpeddling many did when it was revealed that the diaries were not real is really amusing to read about.
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty by Craig Welch. This book is about the poaching of a larger-than-life clam – a Geoduck, to be precise, and the subsequent chase from the wildlife police to nab the poacher.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World by Roger Atwood. This book provides a sweeping history of thefts of various priceless antiques.
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney. The twelve panel oil-painting of the Mystic Lamb is the most frequently stolen artwork in the world. It was stolen 13 times. One wonders whether they could have guarded it a little better after the first couple of times, you know. Anyway, this book describes the events of each theft.
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith. Two reptile smugglers compete against each other to conquer the illegal trade for themselves. The funny thing is, the Zoos stood against them in the courts, but they had no problem buying rare fauna from the two smugglers, sometimes simultaneously.
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel. A massive fire destroyed wines worth $250 million in a California warehouse, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. It was done by a conman named Mark Anderson, who rented storage space at the same warehouse. This book tells why he did that and also goes into the surprisingly bloody history of wine trade in California. (reads well with cranberry juice).
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti. On August 21, 1911, a man walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa tucked inside his coat (should have painted it bigger, eh Vinci?). I am not going to spoil this book for anyone. Read it if you want to know whether Mona Lisa was recovered or was lost to time forever.
CARTELS, GANGS, UNDERWORLD.
American Desperado: My Life --- From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright. Jon Roberts, who starred in documentary Cocaine Cowboys tells his story to the journalist Evan Wright in this book. Roberts smuggled drugs to Miami for the Medellin Cartel (which will feature many times in this category).
At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel. This is Narcos Season 3, basically. Remember the family guy who gets involved with the Cali Cartel and mops around for the whole season even though he had an unbelievably hot wife who was clearly out of his league? That character was based on Rempel. And if I must say so, the book is more compelling than that season of Narcos. Nothing can beat Agent Pena, though.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill. The story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – the head of the Irish Mob in Boston - who became an informant for the FBI and chaos ensued. Depp plays Whitey Bulger in the movie adaptation with a soggy tortilla glued to his face as make-up.
Blow: How a Small -Town Bay Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by Bruce Porter. Another book where Johnny Depp plays the main character in the movie adaptation. This book is about George Jung, who after meeting Carlos Lehder, started selling cocaine in the United States through Medellin Cartel.
Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell. Paul Keany was caught smuggling half-a-million euro worth of cocaine into Venezuela. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Now, prisons everywhere aren’t exactly fun places to be, but Los Teques where Keany was incarcerated was nothing short of hell on earth.
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga. Junichi Saga was a doctor by profession. A patient, who was a former Yakuza, recounted his life story before him. Saga recorded the conversations, and broke doctor-patient confidentiality by writing this book.
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden. A dentist named Larry Lavin builds the foundation for a cocaine empire in the United States.
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover for six years to infiltrate the Mafia. Do watch the movie too, it is Depp’s last movie without weird make-up.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo. Journalist Ioan Grillo has written, arguably, the definitive book on Mexican drug cartels. Why he is still alive is anybody’s guess.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh. Venkatesh, who was a sociology grad student at the time, infiltrated one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. This is one of a kind type of book.
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. This book is about the Italian Crime Network called Camorra in Naples, Italy. Due to his intensive investigative journalism which exposed lot of insider information about the crime syndicate, author Saviano still has to live under constant police protection.
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry. This is a recent book, where the author Alex Perry looks inside the ruthless Calabrian Mafia of Italy and three women who want to save their own and their children’s lives. This is a fascinating and courageous look into an aspect of the Mafia which is often overlooked by most.
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most Wanted Drug-Lord by Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century. Remember when Joaquin Guzman was caught for the first time and then he escaped and then he was caught again for good? Yes? Then read this one. But this book only focuses on the operation that nabbed him for the first time. I must warn you though – the author, Andrew Hogan – is really really in love with himself and it seeps into his writing.
The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel by Robert Mazur. Mazur went undercover and actually became a money launderer for Pablo Escobar. This book is more about how bankers actively helped to launder the drug money and how Mazur helped to bring them down.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden. This is the best book about tracking and eventually killing Pablo Escobar. And as Walter Jr. pointed out to Walter White, it focuses on the good guys, not the bad ones. Good companion book to Pablo Escobar: My Father written by Escobar’s son.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail by Rusty Young. The author stays inside San Pedro jail for months with a drug smuggler to chronicle his tale. This is one of the most popular books written on cocaine smuggling.
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny. This is a thorough investigation into organized crime worldwide which accounts for 1/5th of total GDP of the world. This book would please readers who are into extensively researched true-crime history books, not so much a casual reader (inb4 - I just read 5 pages of McMafia and wow… just wow).
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade by Edward Bunker. Edward Bunker had had an eventful life. Incarceration for two and a half decades, being on FBI’s most wanted list, and being a crime novelist. This is his autobiography.
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks. Howard Marks started dealing dope in small quantities while he was studying at Oxford – as you do – and then eventually graduated to dealing it in tons (what the hell was he studying there? Oh, philosophy). This is his fascinating story.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez. Yet another book that resulted in the author getting death threats. This proves the old cliché true that the pen is mightier than the sword; until the sword comes down and cuts your neck. That’s why the author has to live under constant protection.
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright. Any aspiring drug lords should read this instruction manual. Just kidding. Wainwright goes deep into the functioning of various drug cartels and at the end also comes up with a plan to defeat them.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Little known author tries his hand at true-crime. Pablo Escobar kidnapped 10 journalists when he was on the run from the authorities. This book revolves around that event.
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy by Chandan Nandy. On a December night in 1995, someone airdropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, West Bengal. Who did it and why? This book tells the story about one of India’s greatest ever security breaches.
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton. Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the notorious biker gang. This is his story.
Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo is an architect and lives and practices his trade in Argentina. Even though Pablo was his father, Juan does not try to justify his actions even a little bit. This is one of the best books written on Pablo Escobar.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe. Sister Ping, leader of the Chinese underworld in the US, earned $40 million a year smuggling people from China. Told from the viewpoints of gangsters, investigators, and poor immigrants alike, this book provides a unique window into the world of human smuggling.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History by Michael D. Blutrich. I am disappointed that they went with FBI instead of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the title. Should have made it longer. Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City on the 34th Street Just Opposite the Starbucks, Was Extorted out of 4.54 Millions and 55 Cents Plus Taxes by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in Federal Bureau of Investigation History by Michael Dostoyevsky Blutrich
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein. The author, working as a reporter in Japan, writes about the seedy underbelly of crime in the country.
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley. Where’s Nitty? He’s in the car. Great movie. How Eliot Ness and his team started the downward spiral in criminal career of Al Capone. A somewhat embellished account was also written in the book, but nonetheless, it is a gripping tale.
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand by K. Vijay Kumar. Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was the last big outlaw of India. A sandalwood smuggler who lived in the forest to evade the police, Veerappan killed hundreds of policemen and civilians. K. Vijay Kumar, the officer who led the task force that ultimately brought down the brigand, is the author of this book.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? Goodfellas is perhaps the best Mafia movie ever made, so read it in his own words why Pileggi might fold under questioning.
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss. This Saviano guy must have a death wish. But as a handsome list-writer once eloquently said, “If bitten already by a King Cobra, what difference it makes if you French kiss a Black Mamba?” Since the publication of his book on the Italian crime syndicate, Saviano has to live under constant police protection. So to make sure they don’t slack off, he wrote a book on Cocaine Cartel, this time acquiring lots of admirers in Latin America.
CONMEN, IMPOSTORS.
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten. The Art of making money is to make other people work for you; not the other way round. But more scrupulous method of making money would be to counterfeit it. Art Williams did exactly that.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale. Maybe the most popular book on this list, Abagnale Jr.’s book is not to be missed even if you have watched the movie starring the actor who had sex with a bear (no, not Tormund).
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. One “Dr.” John R. Brinkley, set-up a medical practice to surgically insert goat glands in human testicles to restore their fading sex drive. I am not joking, this happened.
Conman: A Master Swindler’s Own Story by J. R. Weil, W. T. Brannon. Known as “Yellow Kid” Weil was a master conman, who duped public of more than $8 million 100 years ago. He’s called by many as the greatest conman of all time (second to the companies that charge service fees on the internet, of course).
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton. Fenton was a math student until he turned into a carnival con artist. How many bananas he stole from the monkeys? How many bales of potatoes from the elephants? Read this book to find out.
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise. If you have any annoying friends who romanticize the Victorian era and say that they would have liked to live there, tell them to read this book and get back to you after that.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal. This is the true story of one of the greatest impostors of all time. The man could have impersonated a chihuahua if he wanted to.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by James Francis Johnson. Viktor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. I still have the relevant papers that my great grandfather left us. I’m going to shift it to Nauru or Detroit.
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading. This is a revenge story of a man who sets out to con the conmen who conned him twice. Unfortunately, the book could have been written better, but it is still worth having a look at.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood. I once tried playing dead in a meeting when asked about the progress on my project. But there are people who fake their death for lesser gains, such as insurance fraud and debt fraud. Author Elizabeth Greenwood journeys into the dark world of death fraud to find out more.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff. Charles Ponzi was so successful in duping people that we have immortalized his name by terming such swindles after him. At one point, he was raking in $2 millions a week. How many weeks would it take you to earn 2 million dollars at your current income? (sorry, that got heavy fast. It hurt me too).
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh. One botanist claimed that some species of plants on the islands south of Scotland survived the last Ice Age. Another botanist doubted him. This might not sound like a big fraud if you are not into plants, but believe me when I say that the 2 botanists who just read this threw their phones away in disgust and disbelief.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen. A quack doctor named Linda Hazard developed a technique called “fasting treatment”. The story focuses on two sisters who fell for the quack’s assurances that they would be cured of all the diseases - real or imagined. This book is quite infuriating to read. Hazard was a despicable human being.
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson. Wilson looks from ancient Rome to current times for food frauds. And she finds them aplenty (companion read - while having a nice snack).
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar. This is a good bathroom book about fakers through history.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. Have you heard about Tania Head? If you haven’t, I urge you to skip this book. Tania Head duped survivors of 9/11 and the whole world alike into believing that she was one of the survivors from the South Tower of World Trade Center. I feel enraged just by typing this. So just read this book if you want to know more about her. There are a couple of documentaries out there too.
HACKERS.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. Long before internet became a place for cat memes, Cliff Stoll was working at a research lab as a systems manager. One day he found 75 cents of accounting error. This made him alert that an unauthorized person was logging into the system. Thus began his lone effort of tracking down the spy.
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley. Before there was internet, or even personal computers, mobsters and teenagers hacked the telephone system.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. The book tells the story of one of the best hackers of all times, Kevin Mitnick, and his cat and mouse game with the FBI.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich. A group of bankers manipulated daily interest rates just a fraction here and there on loans worth trillions of dollars and made some serious cash for themselves. This book also rocks one of the ugliest book covers of 2017.
MUTINEERS, PIRATES, OUTLAWS.
Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash. I was torn whether to include this book in the list as the history of Batavia’s mutiny is littered with corpses. But as the focus is on the mutiny, I am going to keep it here. This event could give the Medusa’s raft a run for its money.
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts by Sian Rees. Poor girls in England, most of who were petty thieves, were given a chance to sail to Botany Bay in Australia to create a new life for themselves and the male population of New South Wales. But the real story happened at the sea on board the ship Lady Julian.
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch. Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty. The book might not be full of memorable dialogues as the movie, but if you want to know more about the legendary outlaws, give this book a chance.
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks. Mutiny of the Bounty is perhaps the most infamous of mutinies that occurred at sea. Even after the event and hundreds of years later, the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his sailors continue to live a crime-filled life like their forefathers on Pitcairn Island.
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks. This book will change your perception of Captain Kidd, that’s for sure.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner. This non-fiction book concentrates on Sheriff Pat Garrett’s chase in pursuit of the bandit Billy the Kid. If you like reading westerns, this one and The Last Outlaws are not to be missed.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. Cordingly takes a look at life among the pirates. Some of your romanticism would be squashed, but there were some good things about being a pirate too. Life among the pirates was neither black nor white; it was beige.
POLITICAL CRIMES
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson. Three kids won a 300 million dollar contract – legitimately – I must add, to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They had no money, but still they almost pulled it off. I don’t know, read this book, and if you’re a US citizen, visit the websites mentioned in the book, see if they are still doing business the same way, and if you want, you can become a supplier to the army too. Don’t forget to send me my cut (the movie War Dogs was trash).
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts. Even if you’re not a United Statian of American (USians?), chances are you might have read at least something about the execution of the Rosenberg couple as spies. This is probably the best book about the subject.
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq by Bob Drogin. How many weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? If your answer is “what’s that?” then congratulations, you’re not unlike one of your former presidents. Who told the USians that there were WMDs with Saddam? Curveball.
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Perkins was an economic hitman, who at the instruction of US intelligence agencies and giant corporations cajoled and blackmailed other country leaders to serve US foreign policy and award lucrative contracts to American businesses (now that job has been transferred to the White House).
A Kim Jong – Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer. Say you want to make a big movie for your country. But there is no one in your country who can handle such an ambitious project. What do you do? Hire some talent from other country? But you’re Kim Jong – Il. Oh. Then you just kidnap them, and force them to make the glorious movie of yours. Read this book. It’s pretty absurd (the movie they eventually made for Kim was utter shit. The Room would look like Gone with the Wind compared to that abomination).
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets… And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins. One day a man Abdul Qadeer Khan caught a plane to Pakistan from Europe. With him he had blueprints of the mechanism that could prepare weapons grade Uranium that he had stolen from the lab he worked at in the last 3 years. He would make the first atomic bomb for Pakistan with that information. Then he sold the tech to stable countries like Iran, North Korea and Libya. How can someone get away with stealing such powerful information? Read this book to find out.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen. This is a pretty controversial topic that has only gained wider acknowledgement in recent decades. Read this book to know in detail how bogus the claims of justice being served to the perpetrators of the Holocaust were. Basically, if you were a scientist, you were very likely to be acquitted from any War Crimes allegations.
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni. How did most of the Nazis who managed to escape from Germany ended up in South America? Read about the collusion of various entities and institutions that made it possible in this book.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI’s Hunt for America’s Stolen Secrets by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. This is the true story of a mole in FBI, how he attempted to sell classified information and how FBI tried to track him down.
ROBBERIES, HEISTS.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein. If there is one thief in this list that I admire, it is without a doubt, Attila Ambrus. Ambrus was known as a gentleman thief, who would ask – no, request - the teller to fill his bag with money. If you read this book, it would be hard for you to dislike Attila even though he was a thief.
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld. Bill Mason looted many famous personalities in his long career as a jewel thief. In this book he tells how he did it.
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson. Do you know there are people whose hobby is fly tying? The feathery thing that you attach to the hook to catch fish? But these are not your average fly tiers. They use feathers from exotic birds to create different ties whose total cost could run in thousands of dollars. Moreover, many of the most coveted birds are either protected or extinct. So one night a man named Edwin Rist broke into Tring museum and took hundreds of bird skins, some that belonged to Darwin, to fuel his hobby and even getting rich by selling precious feathers to other tiers. Don’t miss this book.
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by Mark Bowden. Who hasn’t dreamt of finding a big bag of money? It couldn’t have happened to a more clueless person. Joey Coyle, to be exact.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby. The theft from Antwerp that still raises many questions.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn. The truth is not that romantic.
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Pearls, more valuable than the Hope Diamond, are stolen by thieves in Edwardian London.
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. My favorite Crichton book. Stealing gold from a running train! Watch the movie too that stars the great Sean Connery.
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by Jeff Diamant. How hard is it to steal 17 million dollars? As far as these thieves were concerned, not much. Getting away with it was another thing altogether. The movie was pretty average, I think.
Into the Blast: The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Porteous, Robert Blevins. Is Tommy Wiseau DB Cooper? If only that was true. Read the book but don’t expect any clear-cut answers (I think most people would agree that the clumsy bastard died after he jumped from the plane).
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. True story of George Appo, a pickpocket living in nineteenth-century New York.
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich. A guy steals moon rocks from NASA and then had sex on them with his girlfriend (how the hell is that comfortable?)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel. The last hermit was not a hermit in true sense. He didn’t rely on land to feed himself. He stole from the nearby community. Before someone says I have spoiled the book for them, it is revealed in the first chapter that he is a thief.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The Steve Jobs impersonator, Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, and her old boyfriend, Sunny, are some of the most vile people that I have come across while reading about corporate crime. This is one of the best books that I have read this year.
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart. This is probably the most famous book written about those Wall Street scoundrels.
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb. The story of Leo Koretz, who created one of the longest running Ponzi schemes in the 1920s Chicago.
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald. Mark Whitacre becomes an FBI informant against his own corporation. But as time goes by, the FBI starts to realize that Mark is not as truthful as he seems to be, and he has his own agenda (they made a movie with Matt Damon).
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con by Guy Lawson. Sam Israel’s hedge fund was making heavy losses. So naturally, he fabricated fake returns to fool the investors. Then he heard about a secret market from where he could convert his millions into billions. That’s how he lost the last 150 million dollars of his invertors’ money.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder. Only thing you are going to learn from this book is don’t do business in Russia.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind. Bethany McLean asked one simple question in her article when everyone else was going gaga over Enron. “What does Enron actually do?” Nobody knew. Even Enron couldn’t give a specific answer. They were not just committing accounting fraud; they were looting ordinary people by creating fake shortage of electricity and driving the prices high. The documentary is worth watching too.
Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony by Gary Stephen Ross. The guy Molony debited huge amounts of money from the bank he worked at to feed his gambling addiction. Oh, and he took the money in other people’s name who held huge accounts there. This is one of the best true-crime books that I have ever read.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer. You know the man who builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Great guy, right? Krakauer doesn’t think so. And he’ll tell you why in this short book.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques. 65 billion dollars. That’s the amount that Madoff swindled from people through decades of fraud. I think I can buy a small island country with this much money. The idiot is in jail though. I don’t know, maybe after a couple of billion, skip to a country with no extradition treaty and live the rest of your life without the fear of being getting caught? But then, these types of people don’t know when to stop.
OTHER.
American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down --- My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off World’s Casinos by Richard Marcus. The guy ripped-off casinos all over the world by stealing gaming chips while maintaining an illusion of a highroller to lend his eventual take required legitimacy.
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak. Written by the daughter of a guard at Alcatraz, this book tells the story of the infamous escape from the prison island. Don’t forget to watch the classic movie too.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich. The movie 21 was based on this book. But if you want to know the real story, without the whitewashing, you have no choice but to read this book.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales estimates that there are 27 million people worldwide who live as slaves, right now. And yes, slavery still exists in United States of America in case you were wondering. This is a depressing book.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T. J. Parsell. Rape in prison is absolutely overlooked almost everywhere. Read this book if you can endure reading about helplessness page after page.
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella. Prison systems in developing world differ from the developed one in one regard that the guards and officials there are more corrupt and hence are likely to look the other way when something bad is going down amongst the inmates. Kerobokan Jail in Bali is one of the worst among those.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley. The author interviewed inmates from Leavenworth Prison for two years. The book is the result of that labor.
The Laundrymen: Inside the World’s Third Largest Business by Jeffrey Robinson. I have a perfect idea to launder money. Laser Tag! Robinson looks at the third largest business in the world. The book was published a while ago, but still hasn’t lost most of its relevancy.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer. Jon releases the Krakauer on one of the most relevant subjects of today. Rapes in colleges. These institutes would do anything to sweep things under the rug to maintain the illusion of clean image in the public eye.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover. The author worked as a prison guard for a year at one of the most notorious prisons of the United States. This book is about his experience.

Before I start, I want to say that this post will be very long, longer than any of my previous continuity posts. The book is packed with so much and I highly recommend it. For those only interested in the big stuff, I will bold what I think are the most important new facts or legends callbacks. Also, I want to say a HUGE thanks to marvelstarwars for co-authoring this and helping with research and fact-gathering, couldn't have done it without him.
Now, I'll get into it, hope you enjoy!

• The book is originally Maz's. There isn't an indication to when she starts it but it doesnt seem to far away from the PT era
• A mention of the "relic-strewn" battlefields of Ruusan"
• Confirmation of the 5 Syndicates: Hutts, Pykes, Crimson Dawn, Black Sun, and Crymorah with the Son-Tuul Pride as a lesser 6th
• Maz used to be a pirate queen in her younger years before settling down into her castle (which is near a hyperspace nexus)
• A huge map of the galaxy. There are tons of legends pulls and continuity (most come up later in the book)
• Gree Enclave canonized (they are on the map, north part of the galaxy in Wild Space)
• Items that fetch the most credits per kg: coaxium, Quarren artisanal ink, Harch industrial adhesive (Trench's species), Gaberwool flaxen fibers (The New Rebellion and TLJ VD), Kibnon or Nevoota stimulant pollen (WEG species), and Megonite moss (Motti family was a Megonite moss farmer in Legends)
• Corellian Merchants Guild and Mandroxan Cartel (Old WEG Cartel) canonized as smuggler's guilds/alliances.
• Spice Triangle canonized. Roon to Ryloth, Ryloth to Tatooine, and Tatooine to Roon.
• Sometime later Tryphon Leo finds the book and decides to go hunting for treasure at the Shrove of the Left-Handed God Typhojem. In Legends Typhojem was a deity worshipped by the ancient Sith during the 100 Year Darkness.
• The Shrove contained other treasure including Quesoth (Legends species from Zahn) pottery shards that dated back to the "Neo-Middle Secundus"
• Dex next found the book on Pashvi (Legends planet mentioned in Outbound Flight). he then headed to Athus Klee in the Stellar Skirt of the Tingel Arm. The Klee was a species wiped out by Xim in Legends
• On Athus Klee Dex found one of Evazan's "gene chop-shops" that he was running for Crimson Dawn.
• Tyro Viveca steals the book next. He is hunting a terentarek on Kashyyyk.
• Tyro took an Ugor steamer to Kashyyyk. Iirc this is the first mention of Ugor outside the race, they seem to be junker spacers just like in Legends
• Hondo gets the book next after Tyro is killed. he plans on forging the whole thing and selling it on the Undervine (Underworld Holonet type station from Aphra comic)
• Hondo names the forged book the "Book of Hondo" which is mentioned in the The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku
• Whyren's Reserve, an expensive Corellian ale, is canonized. It was extensively mentioned in Legends.
• Hondo sells the book at an auction on Zitrian's Anchor (An obscure WEG station that had an Adventure Journal story about it)
• Rang Clan, Xrexus Cartel, and the Hutts come as potential buyers. All 3 have been mentioned in canon and Xrexus Cartel is now confirmed to have survived even after the Darth Maul comic.
• Gunda Mabin, leader of the Blazing Claw, steals the book from Hondo. He dates all the way back to the WEG era.
• Gunda says that Maz held sway over a thousand ports when the Republic was new.
• Gunda also steals an elixir of Omwat's Grace and a Rhen-Orm biocomputer from Hondo. Omwat was a technologically advanced planet mentioned in numerous Legends works. Rhen-Orm is an obscure reference to the old Aurra Sing comic.
• Dharus' Buccaneers (WEG) are said to be rivals of the Blazing Claw.
• Gunda Mabin found the 1st of Maz's 6 treasures on Moldour.
• A Thalassian Slaver named Krastic Tarta takes out Mabin and steals the book. The comments he makes reveal the Zygerrians are still operating into the Empire Era.
• Tarta is killed by Black Sun and the book ends up in the hands of Gallandro's gang after they raid it from the Lower Tion.
• Gallandro is recanonized. He is running a pirate crew but Han's notes say he became CorpSec's hired gun. (This is the position he was in when Han encountered him in the Legends Han Solo Adventures). Gallandro even has a note saying no one can outdraw him as a gunslinger.
• Honest Loonoo steals the book from Gallandro on Savareen and heads to Nar Shaddaa.
• Haysian Smelt from numerous TLJ tie-ins is mentioned.
• Loonoo buys a "Living Force Elixir" which might mean something in the future.
• The next characters to get it are Ephant Mon and Masse Goskey, both arms dealers. In Legends Goskey owned the Tatooine Arms Emporium and Mon was a gunrunner for Jabba.
• The book passes to Vizago and then to Latts Razzi who now owns her own syndicate but it is slowly being pinched out by the Pykes.
• Crimson Dawn gets it next and Qi'ra is already working with Dryden so this section cant be too far from Solo

More from Dryden's Collection

• Pottery with imprints from the Kitel Phard dynasty. However, they were faked by the White Worms who were in league with Latts.
• Andris spice. Canonized for the first time, very popular spice from Legends that was in numerous post-RotJ stories.
• An HK-model gladiator droid that Grakkus used to own.
• Two mummified tuk'ata's (Qi'ra mentions a buyer of this from the Shadow Universty on Archaeo Prime. This is ofc an Aphra reference)

Back to Normal

• Val and the crew stole the book from one of Dryden's crates in Zarra, the capital city of Cato Neimoidia.
• Enfys Nest interfered in their job on Cato Neimoidia and caused their previous fourth member, a Mon Cala named Tuska, to die.
• Jabba's ship from his old Legends comics, the Star Jewel, is canonized when the logbook is in storage on that ship.
• Saponza from Star Wars: Commander gets it next.
• Saponza worked in the Mytaranor Campaign, Kwymar Suppressions, and Retreat from Parcelus Minor. All of these are early campaigns in the Empire Era.
• Platt Okeefee (The writer of all the smugglers' guides from WEG) gets it next.
• She mentions Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, the location of Galaxy’s Edge
• She also lists the "best things to smuggle". They include aurodium, Greel wood, oro-weave, meleenium, durelium, hyperbarides, Corusca stones, Mandalorian beskar, Quella gems, and prismatic crystals.
• Lando won the book next in a game of pazaak against Platt.
• Lando mentions smuggling seasow milk to Panna. Panna is a Legends planet from The Holiday Special that was also mentioned in Star Tours
• Tonnika Sisters mentioned. They are of course none from their appearances in Mos Eisley and a FACPOV story.
• There is an advertisement for Lando's cheating device. It is supposed to only be used for "amusement purposes"
• Lando lists the small number of casino's he hasn't been banned from. They include Canto Bight, Pavo Prime, Ralleta, and Oseon. Pavo Prime and Ralleta are both Legends pulls from WEG and an old Insider article. Oseon is interesting because that is the casino Lando is gambling at the beginning of the second book in the Lando Calrissian Adventures
• BoShek (another cantina patron from ANH) finds the book on Makem Te (SWTOR and Scourge as well as numerous reference materials)
• Picture of what looks to be an Adarian, also namedropped earlier. These guys are based on unused maquettes fro RotJ. (credit to AV)
• BoShek is accepted into and races in the Dragon Void Run from the Han Solo comic. He loses to fellow Corellian however.
• More Corellia lore as the northern continent from Legends, Agrilat, is mentioned by BoShek.
• BoShek returns the logbook to Maz who immediately gives it to Chewbacca.
• Han and Chewie decide to go after Maz's treasure on Columi. Columi was a legends species from Columus which appeared in some early Bantam works. Rebel Files lists Columi as the species and Columus as the planet so we might have a little snarl here.
• Han mentions his old friend Sonniod. This is yet another pull from the Daley Han Solo books as Sonniod was a smuggler associate of Han.
• Han lists the modifications he's done to the Falcon
• Han says that someone on Junkfort is saying he did the Kessel Run in 11 parsecs. Junkfort is an obscure Legends pull from the 1982 Archie comic strips.

Han Solo Adventures references

• Han mentions running bogus cash schemes for Big Bunji in the Cron Drift. Both these things are mentioned as frequent associates and jobs of Han in Stars' End
• Sunfighter Franchise as an alias for the Falcon just as he did on Bonadan at the beginning of Stars' End
• Han mentions his old friend Sonniod. This is yet another pull from the Daley Han Solo books as Sonniod was a smuggler associate of Han.
• Han mentioned trying to get off the Red List and escape the debt collectors. This is a concept from Han Solo's Revenge as debt collectors would hunt people on the List, including Han.
• An exact event is mentioned as Han is said to have run R'alla mineral water to Rampa II
• Sana is said to have ambushed Han on the Rampa Rapids which got Han and Chewie thrown in jail. This matches up directly with a quote from Stars' End where Sonniod says he knows about Han's troubles on the Rampa Rapids while smuggling water. This exact event, which is now mentioned in Legends and canon, is revisited in detail in one of the NJO books.
• A little bit later Papa Toren sells the contract of Ploovo Two-for-One to Grakkus. Ploovo is yet another character brought back.
• Grakkus was supposed to have gotten a shipment of Mark X Executioner droids but they never showed up. The owner of the Stars End prison had one of these droids.
• An event that happened directly before the HSA in Legends is now canon

Back to Normal again

• Papa Toren got the book next before selling to it Grakkus along with a Mark VII Gladiator droid (Which could be a reference to the Mark VII droids in SWTOR), Ploovo, and Jellied Panna Frogs.
• The Xonti Brothers from Aphra delivered 3 Wookiees from Kashyyyk to fight in Grakkus's pit fights.
• Zandarreo, a Lasat, fought in Grakkus' arena.
• Grakkus is given a full name: Grakkus Jahibakti Tingi
• Misstress Wrollanpff, a one-eyed Wookiee, led a slave uprising in Grakkus' pits along with the Mark VII Gladiator
• Chewie ended up with the book again after getting it from Big Quince, another Wookiee. He carries it around for months before showing Han.
• Han and Chewie leave the Rebellion (which stays consistent with the timeline so this section is around 1-2 months after ANH) to pay off their debts.
• Han goes after one of Maz's treasures, a derelict ship called Graceful Promising. He gets General Ematt and the Pathfinders to assist him. They get the treasure but Han lets Ematt keep the haul because he knows the Rebellion needs it more.
• After this, Han needs an idea for another big score. He comes up with two things: The Ezaraa or the Aquaris Freeholders. The Ezaraa were an insectoid race featured in the Aphra comic and the Aquaris Freeholders is another reference to the Archie comics from the 80s.
• Shesslaria steals the book from Han on Ord Mantell. She is hauling a prisoner to Zorba the Hutt's Palace in the Southern Rim.
• The book changes hands two more times after Shesslaria is attacked and her attacker, Puttana Pin, crash lands on Jedha. It eventually finds its way to Cycyed Ock and Kullbee Sperado, two Partisans who are now confirmed alive and living on the other hemisphere on Jedha.
• Cycyed and Kullbe find a downed Headhunter and escape Jedha, they plan to find the Maz's treasure on Iskalon with their old crew.
• Their old crew is Nersiton, an old member of Gallandro's gang who got killed by the Partisans, Isin, a female Advozec who is working for a traveling menagerie but shows up in Megalox Beta during the Poe comic mentioned as a crime lord, and Rufork Tamson, son of Riff Tamson.
• They mention to get the treasure on Iskalon but are captured and thrown in Megalox Beta Penitentiary. This is the first time we have seen Megalox Beta used as an Imperial prison.
• Prima Wessex stole the logbook on Hosnian Prime. Her last name in Legends was a family of great designers for the Galactic Empire.
• Wessex works for an organization called the Whisper Network. According to Wessex, they are the top information brokers in the galaxy yet no one knows because they are hidden from public view. They pull the strings on syndicates and broker information on all levels of the underworld.
• Wessex mentions lower tier intelligence networks including Deep Current, a rebel network mentioned in Rebel Files, and the Kuophan Spynet, a species from Heir to the Jedi.
• Dr. Evazan disembowels Wessex and goes to the Obroan Intelligence Summit in her stead. He kills everyone there. This event is dubbed the Obroa-skai Massacre. Obroa-Skai itself first showed up in Heir to the Empire and was canonized in Tarkin.
• Evazan mentions the Kingdom of Tion, saying it was "long ago".
• Evazan mentions selling body parts to the "elixir hustlers" on Nar Shaddaa. Probably a call back to the Living Force Elixir from earlier.
• Aphra buys the logbook from Dok-Ondar, a character that will be apart of Galaxy's Edge, acting as an antique dealer on Batuu.
• Aphra's numerous prior employers are mentioned including the University of Bar'leth (Shows up and is mentioned in the comic), Archaeological Association of Archaeo-Prime (also from the comic), and the University of Ridrig Committee for Historic Preservation. The University of Rudrig is in the 3rd Han Solo Adventures book and is where Lyra goes to college in Catalyst.
• Sana and Aphra had a drinking competition at Fort Ypso on Vandor.
• Aphra mentions that Crymorah and Crimson Dawn are losing ground while the Hutts and Pykes are consolidating assets. She has a hunch this has to do with the syndicates in the Eastern Rim finding some of Maz's treasures. We know Black Sun has one which might be why they aren't mentioned as losing ground.
• Aphra then mentions wanting to journey to the Unknown Regions to locate one of the treasures. The location of the treasure is right around where Bakura was on the old Legends map.

New Republic Era

• The next page has a large First Order stamp on it that says "Seized in the name of Supreme Leader Snoke by Commandant Brendol Hux"
• The next page the book has come to Riley from Uprising. She was given it by the Irving Boys after they ditched her at a wayfarers node in the Outer Rim.
• Riley mentions that the Empire is digging in on numerous worlds, including Burnin Konn, even without the Emperor's leadership.
• Riley then mentions that the Irving Boys picked her up in the Anoat sector after traveling from the Unknown Regions, where she suspects they got the logbook. This seems to be after the events of Uprising and, imo, after the Battle of Jakku.
• Riley plans on going to work for the Red Key Raiders. She says they cut the guts out of the Hutt Syndicate after Jabba's death, taking most of their power. The Ivax Syndicate is also a feeder for the Red Key Raiders.
• Sidon Ithano stole the book next from Riley. He mentions that Riley should join the Gray Gundarks, a swoop gang from the Crimson Corsair story.
• An infobox says that Ithano's crew operates in the Lost Clusters, another fact taken from the Crimson Corsair story. The infobox says they are "beyond the Outer Rim". The box also says to deliver inquires to Ponemah Terminal, leading me to believe the Lost Clusters are in the Western Reaches near Jakku. It may be that Ithano operates near or around Jakku.
• Int he next entry, Ithano mentions they are going after the Lost Treasure of Adratharpe 7. His short story also mentions a battle on that planet.
• Seems we know who they were battling as the Red Key Raiders have the book next. Their Underboss, Magnus the Bloodsoaked mentions that he will deliver it to Boss Movellan, who led the Raiders in the Aftermath trilogy.
• The Red Key Raiders are allied with the Black Sun but, according to Magnus, Movellan wants to get rid of the partnership and shrug off the hand of old syndicates in order to form a new structure for the post-Empire underworld.
• Droid Gotra attacks a Red Key freighter next and steals the book. They claim they are not looking for monetary gain, only informational advantage. This is the first time we've seen Droid Gotra in the post-Empire era.
• The Cyban Front is still said to be working with Droid Gotra. They previously were allied during the Aphra comic.
• Guavian Death Gang gets it next. There is a full spread of a Guavian soldier.
• Guavian says the Empire outlawed cybernetic enhancements but that the New Republic is "toothless and lacking the firepower to back up its words" and that they plan on being the next big syndicate.
• Guavian said they are launching a massive attack on Nantoon, one of Maz's treasure planets.
• Kanjiklub gets it next after annihilating the Guavian force in the Cronese Mandate. Razoo Qin-Fee says their freighter line stretches all the way to Foran Tutha, a Tion planet from Tyrant's Test.
• Razoo then mentions that Black Sun, Crymorah, and Crimson Dawn used to run the galaxy and now a new era has arrived.
• The Master Codebreaker gets it next after buying it from Tasu Leech. He also ventures to Cardota, one of the planets in the Hosnian system.
• Master Codebreaker than provides an updated list of the significant players and relationships in the galaxy. The Pykes and Hutts have fallen and Kanjiklub/the Red Key Raiders have taken their place. Black Sun is without a leader and Crymorah has gotten so powerless that Droid Gotra has taken the reigns. Crimson Dawn has faltered with its successors being the Guavians. Overall the big galactic powers in the NR era are: Black Sun, Droid Gotra, Guavian Death Gang, Kanjiklub, and the Red Key Raiders.
• The Kuophans created a way to encrypt codes within genomes which is called biohexacrypting.
• Master Codebreaker places the book back on the Falcon and it stays there as it passes hands through Gannis Ducain, the Irving Boys, and Unkar Plutt
• Final message from Leia

Well, that's it! I said it would be a monster of a post. There are almost certainly things I missed so feel free to point them out to me. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!

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Before I start, I want to say that this post will be very long, longer than any of my previous continuity posts. The book is packed with so much and I highly recommend it. For those only interested in the big stuff, I will bold what I think are the most important new facts or legends callbacks. Also, I want to say a HUGE thanks to marvelstarwars for co-authoring this and helping with research and fact-gathering, couldn't have done it without him.
Now, I'll get into it, hope you enjoy!

• The book is originally Maz's. There isn't an indication to when she starts it but it doesnt seem to far away from the PT era
• A mention of the "relic-strewn" battlefields of Ruusan"
• Confirmation of the 5 Syndicates: Hutts, Pykes, Crimson Dawn, Black Sun, and Crymorah with the Son-Tuul Pride as a lesser 6th
• Maz used to be a pirate queen in her younger years before settling down into her castle (which is near a hyperspace nexus)
• A huge map of the galaxy. There are tons of legends pulls and continuity (most come up later in the book)
• Gree Enclave canonized (they are on the map, north part of the galaxy in Wild Space)
• Items that fetch the most credits per kg: coaxium, Quarren artisanal ink, Harch industrial adhesive (Trench's species), Gaberwool flaxen fibers (The New Rebellion and TLJ VD), Kibnon or Nevoota stimulant pollen (WEG species), and Megonite moss (Motti family was a Megonite moss farmer in Legends)
• Corellian Merchants Guild and Mandroxan Cartel (Old WEG Cartel) canonized as smuggler's guilds/alliances.
• Spice Triangle canonized. Roon to Ryloth, Ryloth to Tatooine, and Tatooine to Roon.
• Sometime later Tryphon Leo finds the book and decides to go hunting for treasure at the Shrove of the Left-Handed God Typhojem. In Legends Typhojem was a deity worshipped by the ancient Sith during the 100 Year Darkness.
• The Shrove contained other treasure including Quesoth (Legends species from Zahn) pottery shards that dated back to the "Neo-Middle Secundus"
• Dex next found the book on Pashvi (Legends planet mentioned in Outbound Flight). he then headed to Athus Klee in the Stellar Skirt of the Tingel Arm. The Klee was a species wiped out by Xim in Legends
• On Athus Klee Dex found one of Evazan's "gene chop-shops" that he was running for Crimson Dawn.
• Tyro Viveca steals the book next. He is hunting a terentarek on Kashyyyk.
• Tyro took an Ugor steamer to Kashyyyk. Iirc this is the first mention of Ugor outside the race, they seem to be junker spacers just like in Legends
• Hondo gets the book next after Tyro is killed. he plans on forging the whole thing and selling it on the Undervine (Underworld Holonet type station from Aphra comic)
• Hondo names the forged book the "Book of Hondo" which is mentioned in the The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku
• Whyren's Reserve, an expensive Corellian ale, is canonized. It was extensively mentioned in Legends.
• Hondo sells the book at an auction on Zitrian's Anchor (An obscure WEG station that had an Adventure Journal story about it)
• Rang Clan, Xrexus Cartel, and the Hutts come as potential buyers. All 3 have been mentioned in canon and Xrexus Cartel is now confirmed to have survived even after the Darth Maul comic.
• Gunda Mabin, leader of the Blazing Claw, steals the book from Hondo. He dates all the way back to the WEG era.
• Gunda says that Maz held sway over a thousand ports when the Republic was new.
• Gunda also steals an elixir of Omwat's Grace and a Rhen-Orm biocomputer from Hondo. Omwat was a technologically advanced planet mentioned in numerous Legends works. Rhen-Orm is an obscure reference to the old Aurra Sing comic.
• Dharus' Buccaneers (WEG) are said to be rivals of the Blazing Claw.
• Gunda Mabin found the 1st of Maz's 6 treasures on Moldour.
• A Thalassian Slaver named Krastic Tarta takes out Mabin and steals the book. The comments he makes reveal the Zygerrians are still operating into the Empire Era.
• Tarta is killed by Black Sun and the book ends up in the hands of Gallandro's gang after they raid it from the Lower Tion.
• Gallandro is recanonized. He is running a pirate crew but Han's notes say he became CorpSec's hired gun. (This is the position he was in when Han encountered him in the Legends Han Solo Adventures). Gallandro even has a note saying no one can outdraw him as a gunslinger.
• Honest Loonoo steals the book from Gallandro on Savareen and heads to Nar Shaddaa.
• Haysian Smelt from numerous TLJ tie-ins is mentioned.
• Loonoo buys a "Living Force Elixir" which might mean something in the future.
• The next characters to get it are Ephant Mon and Masse Goskey, both arms dealers. In Legends Goskey owned the Tatooine Arms Emporium and Mon was a gunrunner for Jabba.
• The book passes to Vizago and then to Latts Razzi who now owns her own syndicate but it is slowly being pinched out by the Pykes.
• Crimson Dawn gets it next and Qi'ra is already working with Dryden so this section cant be too far from Solo

More from Dryden's Collection

• Pottery with imprints from the Kitel Phard dynasty. However, they were faked by the White Worms who were in league with Latts.
• Andris spice. Canonized for the first time, very popular spice from Legends that was in numerous post-RotJ stories.
• An HK-model gladiator droid that Grakkus used to own.
• Two mummified tuk'ata's (Qi'ra mentions a buyer of this from the Shadow Universty on Archaeo Prime. This is ofc an Aphra reference)

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• Val and the crew stole the book from one of Dryden's crates in Zarra, the capital city of Cato Neimoidia.
• Enfys Nest interfered in their job on Cato Neimoidia and caused their previous fourth member, a Mon Cala named Tuska, to die.
• Jabba's ship from his old Legends comics, the Star Jewel, is canonized when the logbook is in storage on that ship.
• Saponza from Star Wars: Commander gets it next.
• Saponza worked in the Mytaranor Campaign, Kwymar Suppressions, and Retreat from Parcelus Minor. All of these are early campaigns in the Empire Era.
• Platt Okeefee (The writer of all the smugglers' guides from WEG) gets it next.
• She mentions Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, the location of Galaxy’s Edge
• She also lists the "best things to smuggle". They include aurodium, Greel wood, oro-weave, meleenium, durelium, hyperbarides, Corusca stones, Mandalorian beskar, Quella gems, and prismatic crystals.
• Lando won the book next in a game of pazaak against Platt.
• Lando mentions smuggling seasow milk to Panna. Panna is a Legends planet from The Holiday Special that was also mentioned in Star Tours
• Tonnika Sisters mentioned. They are of course none from their appearances in Mos Eisley and a FACPOV story.
• There is an advertisement for Lando's cheating device. It is supposed to only be used for "amusement purposes"
• Lando lists the small number of casino's he hasn't been banned from. They include Canto Bight, Pavo Prime, Ralleta, and Oseon. Pavo Prime and Ralleta are both Legends pulls from WEG and an old Insider article. Oseon is interesting because that is the casino Lando is gambling at the beginning of the second book in the Lando Calrissian Adventures
• BoShek (another cantina patron from ANH) finds the book on Makem Te (SWTOR and Scourge as well as numerous reference materials)
• BoShek is accepted into and races in the Dragon Void Run from the Han Solo comic. He loses to fellow Corellian however.
• More Corellia lore as the northern continent from Legends, Agrilat, is mentioned by BoShek.
• BoShek returns the logbook to Maz who immediately gives it to Chewbacca.
• Han and Chewie decide to go after Maz's treasure on Columi. Columi was a legends species from Columus which appeared in some early Bantam works. Rebel Files lists Columi as the species and Columus as the planet so we might have a little snarl here.
• Han mentions his old friend Sonniod. This is yet another pull from the Daley Han Solo books as Sonniod was a smuggler associate of Han.
• Han lists the modifications he's done to the Falcon
• Han says that someone on Junkfort is saying he did the Kessel Run in 11 parsecs. Junkfort is an obscure Legends pull from the 1982 Archie comic strips.

Han Solo Adventures references

• Han mentions running bogus cash schemes for Big Bunji in the Cron Drift. Both these things are mentioned as frequent associates and jobs of Han in Stars' End
• Sunfighter Franchise as an alias for the Falcon just as he did on Bonadan at the beginning of Stars' End
• Han mentions his old friend Sonniod. This is yet another pull from the Daley Han Solo books as Sonniod was a smuggler associate of Han.
• Han mentioned trying to get off the Red List and escape the debt collectors. This is a concept from Han Solo's Revenge as debt collectors would hunt people on the List, including Han.
• An exact event is mentioned as Han is said to have run R'alla mineral water to Rampa II
• Sana is said to have ambushed Han on the Rampa Rapids which got Han and Chewie thrown in jail. This matches up directly with a quote from Stars' End where Sonniod says he knows about Han's troubles on the Rampa Rapids while smuggling water. This exact event, which is now mentioned in Legends and canon, is revisited in detail in one of the NJO books.
• A little bit later Papa Toren sells the contract of Ploovo Two-for-One to Grakkus. Ploovo is yet another character brought back.
• Grakkus was supposed to have gotten a shipment of Mark X Executioner droids but they never showed up. The owner of the Stars End prison had one of these droids.
• An event that happened directly before the HSA in Legends is now canon

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• Papa Toren got the book next before selling to it Grakkus along with a Mark VII Gladiator droid (Which could be a reference to the Mark VII droids in SWTOR), Ploovo, and Jellied Panna Frogs.
• The Xonti Brothers from Aphra delivered 3 Wookiees from Kashyyyk to fight in Grakkus's pit fights.
• Zandarreo, a Lasat, fought in Grakkus' arena.
• Grakkus is given a full name: Grakkus Jahibakti Tingi
• Misstress Wrollanpff, a one-eyed Wookiee, led a slave uprising in Grakkus' pits along with the Mark VII Gladiator
• Chewie ended up with the book again after getting it from Big Quince, another Wookiee. He carries it around for months before showing Han.
• Han and Chewie leave the Rebellion (which stays consistent with the timeline so this section is around 1-2 months after ANH) to pay off their debts.
• Han goes after one of Maz's treasures, a derelict ship called Graceful Promising. He gets General Ematt and the Pathfinders to assist him. They get the treasure but Han lets Ematt keep the haul because he knows the Rebellion needs it more.
• After this, Han needs an idea for another big score. He comes up with two things: The Ezaraa or the Aquaris Freeholders. The Ezaraa were an insectoid race featured in the Aphra comic and the Aquaris Freeholders is another reference to the Archie comics from the 80s.
• Shesslaria steals the book from Han on Ord Mantell. She is hauling a prisoner to Zorba the Hutt's Palace in the Southern Rim.
• The book changes hands two more times after Shesslaria crash lands on Jedha. It eventually finds its way to Cycyed Ock and Kullbee Sperado, two Partisans who are now confirmed alive and living on the other hemisphere on Jedha.
• Cycyed and Kullbe find a downed Headhunter and escape Jedha, they plan to find the Maz's treasure on Iskalon with their old crew.
• Their old crew is Nersiton, an old member of Gallandro's gang who got killed by the Partisans, Isin, a male Advozec who is working for a traveling menagerie but shows up in Megalox Beta during the Poe comic mentioned as a crime lord, and Rufork Tamson, son of Riff Tamson.
• They mention to get the treasure on Iskalon but are captured and thrown in Megalox Beta Penitentary. This is the first time we have seen Megalox Beta used as an Imperial prison.
• Prima Wessex stole the logbook on Hosnian Prime. Her last name in Legends was a family of great designers for the Galactic Empire.
• Wessex works for an organization called the Whisper Network. According to Wessex, they are the top information brokers in the galaxy yet no one knows because they are hidden from public view. They pull the strings on syndicates and broker information on all levels of the underworld.
• Wessex mentions lower tier intelligence networks including Deep Current, a rebel network mentioned in Rebel Files, and the Kuophan Spynet, a species from Heir to the Jedi.
• Dr. Evazan disembowels Wessex and goes to the Obroan Intelligence Summit in her stead. He kills everyone there. This event is dubbed the Obroa-skai Massacre. Obroa-Skai itself first showed up in Heir to the Empire and was canonized in Tarkin.
• Evazan mentions the Kingdom of Tion, saying it was "long ago".
• Evazan mentions selling body parts to the "elixir hustlers" on Nar Shaddaa. Probably a call back to the Living Force Elixir from earlier.
• Aphra buys the logbook from Dok-Ondar, a character that will be apart of Galaxy's Edge, acting as an antique dealer on Batuu.
• Aphra's numerous prior employers are mentioned including the University of Bar'leth (Shows up and is mentioned in the comic), Archaeological Association of Archaeo-Prime (also from the comic), and the University of Ridrig Committee for Historic Preservation. The University of Rudrig is in the 3rd Han Solo Adventures book and is where Lyra goes to college in Catalyst.
• Sana and Aphra had a drinking competition at Fort Ypso on Vandor.
• Aphra mentions that Crymorah and Crimson Dawn are losing ground while the Hutts and Pykes are consolidating assets. She has a hunch this has to do with the syndicates in the Eastern Rim finding some of Maz's treasures. We know Black Sun has one which might be why they aren't mentioned as losing ground.
• Aphra then mentions wanting to journey to the Unknown Regions to locate one of the treasures. The location of the treasure is right around where Bakura was on the old Legends map.

New Republic Era

• The next page has a large First Order stamp on it that says "Seized in the name of Supreme Leader Snoke by Commandant Brendol Hux"
• The next page the book has come to Riley from Uprising. She was given it by the Irving Boys after they ditched her at a wayfarers node in the Outer Rim.
• Riley mentions that the Empire is digging in on numerous worlds, including Burnin Konn, even without the Emperor's leadership.
• Riley then mentions that the Irving Boys picked her up in the Anoat sector after traveling from the Unknown Regions, where she suspects they got the logbook. This seems to be after the events of Uprising and, imo, after the Battle of Jakku.
• Riley plans on going to work for the Red Key Raiders. She says they cut the guts out of the Hutt Syndicate after Jabba's death, taking most of their power. The Ivax Syndicate is also a feeder for the Red Key Raiders.
• Sidon Ithano stole the book next from Riley. He mentions that Riley should join the Gray Gundarks, a swoop gang from the Crimson Corsair story.
• An infobox says that Ithano's crew operates in the Lost Clusters, another fact taken from the Crimson Corsair story. The infobox says they are "beyond the Outer Rim". The box also says to deliver inquires to Ponemah Terminal, leading me to believe the Lost Clusters are in the Western Reaches near Jakku. It may be that Ithano operates near or around Jakku.
• Int he next entry, Ithano mentions they are going after the Lost Treasure of Adratharpe 7. His short story also mentions a battle on that planet.
• Seems we know who they were battling as the Red Key Raiders have the book next. Their Underboss, Magnus the Bloodsoaked mentions that he will deliver it to Boss Movellan, who led the Raiders in the Aftermath trilogy.
• The Red Key Raiders are allied with the Black Sun but, according to Magnus, Movellan wants to get rid of the partnership and shrug off the hand of old syndicates in order to form a new structure for the post-Empire underworld.
• Droid Gotra attacks a Red Key freighter next and steals the book. They claim they are not looking for monetary gain, only informational advantage. This is the first time we've seen Droid Gotra in the post-Empire era.
• The Cyban Front is still said to be working with Droid Gotra. They previously were allied during the Aphra comic.
• Guavian Death Gang gets it next. There is a full spread of a Guavian soldier.
• Guavian says the Empire outlawed cybernetic enhancements but that the New Republic is "toothless and lacking the firepower to back up its words" and that they plan on being the next big syndicate.
• Guavian said they are launching a massive attack on Nantoon, one of Maz's treasure planets.
• Kanjiklub gets it next after annihilating the Guavian force in the Cronese Mandate. Razoo Qin-Fee says their freighter line stretches all the way to Foran Tutha, a Tion planet from Tyrant's Test.
• Razoo then mentions that Black Sun, Crymorah, and Crimson Dawn used to run the galaxy and now a new era has arrived.
• The Master Codebreaker gets it next after buying it from Tasu Leech. He also ventures to Cardota, one of the planets in the Hosnian system.
• Master Codebreaker than provides an updated list of the significant players and relationships in the galaxy. The Pykes and Hutts have fallen and Kanjiklub/the Red Key Raiders have taken their place. Black Sun is without a leader and Crymorah has gotten so powerless that Droid Gotra has taken the reigns. Crimson Dawn has faltered with its successors being the Guavians. Overall the big galactic powers in the NR era are: Black Sun, Droid Gotra, Guavian Death Gang, Kanjiklub, and the Red Key Raiders.
• The Kuophans created a way to encrypt codes within genomes which is called biohexacrypting.
• Master Codebreaker places the book back on the Falcon and it stays there as it passes hands through Gannis Ducain, the Irving Boys, and Unkar Plutt
• Final message from Leia

Well, that's it! I said it would be a monster of a post. There is almost certainly things I missedso feel free to point them out to me. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!