Tony Reeves

Mr Big

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Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Blurb from the book

The true and never before told story of Lennie McPherson - the Mr Big of Sydney crime - reveals a world of violence, police corruption, drugs, prostitution, murder and greed.

ISBN: 
9781741145168
Location: 
Australia
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2005

Mr Sin

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Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Blurb from the book

He was known as "Mr Sin", yet despite his involvement in illegal gambling, sly grog, prostitution and money laundering for nearly sixty years, Abe Saffron faught the nick name most of his adult life. He spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on defamation suits trying to disprove what everyone except himself accepted.  He was a crook.

MR SIN: THE ABE SAFFRON DOSSIER chronicles Abe Saffron's life as a major underworld figure in Sydney. 

ISBN: 
9781741752205
Location: 
Australia
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2007

MR SIN (The Abe Saffron Dossier) - Tony Reeves

Author Information
Book Title: 
Mr Sin
Author Name: 
Tony Reeves
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
9781741752205
Categorisation
Category: 
True Crime
Location: 
Australia
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2007

He was known as "Mr Sin", yet despite his involvement in illegal gambling, sly grog, prostitution and money laundering for nearly sixty years, Abe Saffron faught the nick name most of his adult life. He spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on defamation suits trying to disprove what everyone except himself accepted.  He was a crook.

MR SIN: THE ABE SAFFRON DOSSIER chronicles Abe Saffron's life as a major underworld figure in Sydney. 

Book Review: 

The most fascinating part of MR SIN  is not the corruption. It is the extent of it and how blatant it was. Many involved made little or no effort to cover up the fact they were taking payments from Saffron and his enterprise.

Saffron's strange obsession with defending his "good name" in the courts is also explored.

Reeves isn't afraid to name names either. Some of Australia's best known identities are named in the book; Sir Peter Abeles, Sir Frank Packer, former Attorney General, Lionel Murphy and of course former Premier of New South Wales Robert Askin.

I did find the quotes from various court cases to be extremely dry reading.  The rest of the book is a fascinating expose of just how corrupt things were in New South Wales for several decades.

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