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Betrayed

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Blurb from the book:

'I've cheated, lied and deceived people. I've ruined marriages, ruined lives, ruined relationships, ruined the health of others, not to mention my own.'

What is it really like to live as an undercover cop? Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a difference, but their whole life became a lie. They were cops pretending to be crooks. And their targets? Drug dealers, criminal gangs and, worst of all, bent police.

ISBN: 
9781741759631
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2010

Smack Express

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Blurb from the book:

Organised crime in Australia doesn't just exist on our television screens. The real world of serious crime operates every day and in every state of the country. It is a multi-billion dollar business and at its core are the drug trade and a world of secrecy and self-protection where intimidation and violence are used as the first and only resort.

ISBN: 
9781742372082
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2010

Blood Money

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Blurb from the book:

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable.

So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw motorcycle gangs with their fortified club houses and amphetamine labs; and the Calabrian Mafia, always dangerous and opportunistic.

ISBN: 
9781742371870
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2010

Clive Small

Submitted by Karen on

Author Information
Small, Clive

About the Author

Clive Small is a former detective and Assistant Commissioner of the NSW Police. His investigations included the murder of anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay, the Nugan Hand bank, the shooting of police officer Michael Drury, the murder of Cabramatta MP John Newman and the backpacker murders which led to Ivan Milat being convicted.

BLOOD MONEY - Clive Small & Tom Gilling

Author Information
Book Title: 
Blood Money
Author Name: 
Clive Small
Tom Gilling
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
978-1-74237-606-6
Categorisation
Category: 
True Crime
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2011

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable.

So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw motorcycle gangs with their fortified club houses and amphetamine labs; and the Calabrian Mafia, always dangerous and opportunistic.

Book Review: 

BLOOD MONEY, written by Clive Small and Tom Gilling, looks at the world of organised crime in current-day Australia - New South Wales in particular.  Post the demise of the better known gangs, post the demise of the "gentleman" criminal, this book looks closely at a new wave of gangland bosses, and the ruthless way in which they will form alliances and break the old rules to gain or hold onto power.

The book starts off providing a cast of the major characters and the gangs that they belong to.  It then moves into a series of chapters based around particular people and their alliances.  This includes people that even we Victorians have heard of - Danny Karam, the Ibrahims and so on.  It then looks at the connections between the various people, gangs and activities such as drug and gun running, theft of heavy ordinance, drug trafficking, Bikie Gangs and terrorism.

There is a note that BLOOD MONEY follows on from an earlier book - SMACK EXPRESS, but I don't think you need to have read that to get a clear idea of the impact of the subject matter of this book.  Because this book is talking particularly about a range of individuals that many readers don't know, much of the impact actually comes from the activities of these people - rather than anything about who or what they are.  There are quite a few characters in BLOOD MONEY that I personally have never heard of, but that does not for a moment take away any of the amazement at the length and breadth of their involvements.  And at the way that crime is being used now to fund a range of activities - not just support the lifestyle of the actual perpetrators.  Which is a particularly sobering thought.

Clive Small is a 38-year New South Wales police veteran where he spent much of his time in criminal investigation.  He has also worked as an investigator with the Woodward Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking and with Strike Force Omega - charged with the reinvestigation of the 1984 shooting of Detective Michael Drury.  He also led the backpacker murder investigation which resulted in the conviction of Ivan Milat.  Tom Gilling is a journalist and writer who has written both fiction and non-fiction books before.

The background of both authors must mean that whilst the content is often sobering, and quite revealing - the book doesn't read like an essay on crime.  It's a very readable book, albeit a rather sobering experience.

Currently Reading - Blood Money, Clive Small & Tom Gilling

Submitted by Karen on

Book Title: 
Blood Money
Author Name: 
Clive Small
Tom Gilling

I'm about to do a flurry of "what I read over Easter" posts.  This book is a true crime book about connections between Bikies, Terrorists and Middle Eastern Gangs - mostly in Sydney.

From the Blurb:

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before.  Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable.

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