Where Crime Walks

These true crime cases easily surpass the imagination of the authors of the best detective stories. The Hepnarová case. The Spartakiad killer. The money changers, Tuzex stores, vouchers, the first computer fraud or the Lottery Million fraud, Ivan Jonák and other phenomena of the “wild nineties”. The world according to Mrázek and Krejčíř (and the effort to “get them locked up”). Contract killings and the terrible Krakatice. And finally, the “lice” in the fur coats of godfathers, gangsters and bosses. What role did the amnesties of Václav Havel, Václav Klaus and the presidential pardons of Miloš Zeman play? Well-known media cases that we thought we knew, presented in a new perspective – through the eyes of the criminal investigator who was there. Mafia hunter KAREL TICHÝ dedicated 26 years of his life to the police force, in the final years of his career as an officer in the elite anti-corruption unit. He was one of the best-informed civil servants. He and his people demonstrably saved the state billions of crowns. At the anti-corruption unit, he managed operations involved in gathering information through wiretaps, but especially in the field, often with the help of agents. He is the author of the successful book Mafia Hunter (2021). He published a series of articles on the PrahaIN.cz portal titled Where Crime Walks, which is the precursor to this book.