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  • Underbelly: The Gangland War

    The book behind the hard-hitting TV dramaFirst he got lucky. Then he got life.They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, fast women and fast bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of in the head. Carl didn't return the favour: one by one, Moran and his brother and father and their mates ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Underbelly: The Gangland War

    The book behind the hard-hitting TV drama series. This is Australia's underbelly .... bullet holes and all. They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, fast women and fast bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl didn't return the favour: one by one, Moran and his brother ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities

    The stories that inspired the TV drama series. Made in Melbourne; slayed in Sydney. This was Australia's underbelly. Chris 'Rentakill' Flannery was a Melbourne gunman who sold his services to Sin City's highest bidder. He went on the missing list because he didn't realise the future belonged to those who controlled pills and powders, not pistols. A world of corrupt cops, bent politicians and ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities

    The book behind the hard-hitting TV dramaNow, Underbelly turns to an era when Sydney rivaled Melbourne as the crime capital of the Pacific. Sydney was Sin City, a town on the take for people on the make. From King's Cross to the sport of kings, from back street brothels to plush private casinos, high rollers rubbed shoulders with low life and corruption was a way of life - and death. It was the ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

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    'It was just after dawn on Thursday, November 14, 1991. The hatch on the cell door slid back. I could see the screw's face through the slit. I've seen better heads on a pig dog, but this time I could have kissed him.'Underworld standover man and executioner Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became an instant celebrity when ... Read more

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  • The Skull

    Informers, Hit Men and Australia’s Toughest Cop

    by Adam Shand ...
    There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy.Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs, rubs shoulders with corrupt officials and flashy assassins, and uses a combination of old-school ... Read more

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  • Confessions of a Crooked Cop: From the Golden Mile to Witness Protection - An Explosive True Story

    by Sean Padraic ...
    Trevor Haken - corrupt cop turned supergrass and now inspiration for UNDERBELLY 3 - tells his story in this explosive book.Detective Sergeant trevor Haken was one of the infamous Golden Mile's most crooked cops. Now he lives in hiding, in a hell of his own creation. Graduating from small bribes to stealing money and receiving kickbacks from drug dealers, Haken became an informant for the Wood ... Read more

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  • Road to Nowhere

    "This book is about my journey through the Australian prison system. You'll have heard a few of these stories before, but not like this. It's a step-by-step history of my twenty three years behind bars; what day to day life was really like in jail, what I did to survive and why I'll never go back. It's not a nice story. I was not a nice prisoner..."Mark "Chopper" Read is over fifty years old and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • All Fall Down

    Continuing on from the bestselling true crime stories Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers, All Fall Down follows Terry Lewis as he becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police and government goes on. As the Queensland police become more connected with their corrupt colleagues in Sydney, the era of heavy drugs and crime also begins. Tony Murphy and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deception: The true story of the international drug plot that brought down Australia's top law enforcer Mark Standen

    The true story of the international drug plot that brought down Australia's top law enforcer Mark Standen

    The extraordinary tale of how an officer in the highest echelons of Australian policing was caught coordinating an international drug network operation that extended from rebels in the Congo to some of the most feared drug lords in the Netherlands to street gangs in Pakistan and crime figures in Australia's underworld. He was a 'crooked hat', a bent copper, and he was working with a notorious ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business

    Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of

    by Joe Pistone ...
    When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen.Posing as jewel thief “Donnie Brasco,” Pistone would spend the next six years undercover witnessing and sometimes participating in the Mafia's gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 ... Read more

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  • Bigwig: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel

    by Liam Houlihan ...
    Finally the Tony Mokbel story can be told.the inspiration for Channel Nine's FAt tONY & CO, the new crime series from the producers of UNDERBELLY.An epic tale of family, crime and betrayal set against the backdrop of Melbourne's bullet-riddled suburbs. the cradle-to-cage story of how milk-bar owner tony Mokbel became the Mr Big of Melbourne's drug trade with tentacles reaching around Australia and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD