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UNDERBELLY, THE GANGLAND WAR - John Silvester and Andrew Rule

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 1:57pm.
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First he got lucky.
Then he got life.

Book Title: 
UNDERBELLY, THE GANGLAND WAR
Author:

John Silvester and Andrew Rule

Publisher:

Sly Ink

Copyright:

2008

ISBN:

0-9775440-6-0

Pages:

423

Synopsis:

First 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.
Review:

UNDERBELLY - THE GANGLAND WAR is probably a compilation book of a lot of the sections previously covered in the earlier Underbelly books by journalists Silvester and Rule. The book, interestingly, is freely available and openly publicised in Victoria - the state where the TV show Underbelly is banned from airing on TV here. I've no idea what that says about the way that the Supreme Court ban worked, but the book is going to be some way of a consolation to those who are keen to see the TV show.

The book takes you back through the majority of the murders and lunacy that is / was Melbourne's Underworld war. The style is typically laconic and frankly laugh out loud at points - which makes you feel just a bit odd really. These guys were killing their way to the top and you can't help thinking about Chopper Read's defense that he only ever killed bad guys. Still, it's an interesting stroll through the alternative side of Melbourne and it's certainly extremely entertaining.
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Underbelly - The Gangland War

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 1:48pm.
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  ISBN 0-9775440-6-0

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First 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 were shot dead during an underworld war that was really an extermination program.

But Carl's luck ran out when the Purana Taskforce came calling  He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 35 years.  And that's the truth.

This is Australia's underbelly ... bullet holes and all.

 

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Submitted by Karen on Mon, 31/03/2008 - 2:24pm.
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Well the TV show might be banned, but in Victoria you can buy the book without any problems at all.  I'm not at all sure what that says about the average juror or what it could be implying abo

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Submitted by Karen on Fri, 05/10/2007 - 12:34pm.
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ISBN 0-7316-1859-9

Foreword from the Book

The story of Raymond Edmunds, better known as 'Mr Stinky', leaves the reader wondering if the murderer and rapist who eluded police for nineteen years was extremely cunning or just lucky.

It also illustrates many of the best and worst aspects of our criminal justice system.

 

 

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UNDERBELLY 6 - Andrew Rule and John Silvester

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 02/10/2007 - 4:07pm.
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I'm overdosing on the Underbelly series a bit at the moment, using them as fillers between some hefty Crime Fiction tomes, and why not.

Book Title: 
UNDERBELLY 6
Author:

Andrew Rule and John Silvester

Review:

I'm overdosing on the Underbelly series a bit at the moment, using them as fillers between some hefty Crime Fiction tomes, and why not. In Underbelly 6 the authors take you thought the disappearance of a wife, mother and ex-TV game show model, a bit about the stitch up of the Mickelberg brothers, the slow poisoning death of a husband in Bendigo, the inexplicable death of a policeman and a range of other snippets. The tongue in cheek style of the authors just appeals.
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UNDERBELLY 9 - Andrew Rule and John Silvester

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 02/10/2007 - 3:03pm.
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The UNDERBELLY series is a set of shortish books written by journalists Silvester and Rule covering various events in the criminal underworld of Victoria in particular.

Book Title: 
UNDERBELLY 9
Author:

Andrew Rule and John Silvester

Review:

The UNDERBELLY series is a set of shortish books written by journalists Silvester and Rule covering various events in the criminal underworld of Victoria in particular.

Underbelly 9 covers the shooting of Andrew Veniamin by Mick Gatto, and Gatto's subsequent trial and aquittal, the case of a serial stalker, abalone poachers, the death of a woman and her daughter at the hands of her husband and a number of other stories.

All of these stories are told with Silvester and Rule's classic irreverant, tell it as we see it style.
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Underbelly 7

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 20/06/2007 - 12:21pm.
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  ISBN 0957912161

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Reptiles killed Aubrey Broughill...but which ones?

It takes balls to become Australia's oldest stick-up man. In a 60-year criminal career Aubrey 'Grandpa Harry' Broughill had what it took, right to the end. But when his bloated body was found in a flooded quarry, his testicles were missing.

Turtles were blamed - but there are doubts.

Police know Broughill was the victim of cold-blooded predators. But was it the eastern snake-necked turtle - or something lower?

This is really Australia's underbelly.

 

 

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Tough

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 20/06/2007 - 12:21pm.
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  ISBN 0957912129

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Armed robbers, bikies, bent cops, con men, drug dealers, fraudsters, gangsters, hitmen and hard men...

Tough is a unique compendium of Australian villains.

 

 

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Underbelly 9

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 20/06/2007 - 12:21pm.
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  ISBN 0975231871

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Andrew Veniamin was a short man with a short fuse. A gunman with four scalps, he dropped in for a late lunch with his one-time idol, former heavyweight Mick Gatto, and bit off more than he could chew. The pair went into a corridor at the back of the restaurant but only Gatto walked out. Veniamin had been shot dead at point-blank range. A jury agreed it was self defence. Friends fall out. One ends up dead. Life goes on - for some. This is Australia's underbelly.

 

 

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