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Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams and the by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
This is the inside story of how a family feud became a grab for a multi-billion-dollar prize. It is also the author's personal journey into the lives of Australia's first celebrity gangsters, the police who pursued them and the media's role in creating and destroying them.
Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams and the Gangland Wars by Adam Shand
Category: Non-Fiction
Telling the story of Carl and Roberta Williams' rise to criminal prominence, this book is based on the author's detailed notebooks from time spent inside Australia's most vicious gangland war. It's a deeply disturbing journey into the heart of Melbourne's dysfunctional 'organised crime' scene.
Carl Williams by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
Barwon Prison's maximum security unit, 19 April 2010: Carl Williams is beaten to death with the stem of an exercise bike by a fellow inmate, while guards sit in the next room. And so, the last moments of this convicted contract killer and key figure in the Melbourne underworld echoed the rest of his lif ...Show more
Carl Williams by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero - who was the real Carl Williams? When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police service sti ...Show more
King of Thieves: The Adventures of Arthur Delaney and the Kangaroo Gang by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
The story of the most spectacularly successful shoplifting gang in history, who plundered stores in England and Europe in the 1960s and 1970sthe Kangaroo Gangled by a master thief "King" Arthur Delaney.From the mid 1960s, a brazen band of Australian thieves ran riot in London for more than a decade, pul ...Show more
Outlaws: Inside the World of the Bikies by Adam Shand
Category: Non-Fiction
One group in society, the outlaw bikers, have bonded together and raised a greasy finger to the government and police. Everywhere the remaining bastions of brotherhood in society are disintegrating. Police are corrupt and mistrustful of each other. The armed forces are bastardised and demoralised, cripp ...Show more
Outlaws: The Truth About Australian Bikers by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
An investigation into Australia's bikie clubs. Are Australia's bikie clubs bastions of organised crime? Useful pawns in the political law and order game? Investigative journalist Adam Shand asks, just how bad are they?
Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend, Inside and Out by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author ...mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly knew ...Show more
The Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend Inside and Out by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
"Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author ...mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly kne ...Show more
The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
An irresistible true-crime story from the author of the bestselling Big Shots. There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian 'Skull' Murphy. His fearsome reputation and connections with organised crime have made him an infamous figure in Melbourne police history. In T ...Show more
The Skull: Informers, Hitmen and Australia's Toughest Cop by Adam Shand
Category: Non-Fiction
An irresistible true-crime book from the author of the bestselling Big Shots. Brian Murphy is either Victoria's most corrupt police officer ever or its most maligned and misunderstood. Certainly, there has never been a policeman more feared or respected in Australia than The Skull, so named for his bald ...Show more
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