Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Story of Raymond Edmunds, a convicted rapist and double murderer who was active in Victoria, Australia from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Edmunds was dubbed "Mr Stinky" by a newspaper editor due to his offensive body odour which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure...Read more
The Pettingill crime family was almost off limits to police. Two members had been acquitted of the murder of two young policemen, with no chance of persecution. Along comes undercover cop Lachlan McCulloch. He spent months befriending the people who had killed his comrades, knowing that...Read more
Detective Senior Constable Lachlan McCulloch was a member of the police force for almost 16 years, working undercover and in the drug squad. During that time, he met the mad, the bad and the ugly, and his life was a never ending sequence of drama and tragedy. These are his stories.Read more
They couldn't shoot holes in Fred's story.
So they shot holes in Fred instead.
John Desmond "Fred" Gordon was the star prosecution witness in Operation T-Bone. He rejected police pleas to go into witness protection, punting that he could live longer on the street...Read more
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...Read more
Gangsters use guns to climb out of the gutter, but often find themselves back in it, handcuffed or even dead. This is Australia's underbelly.Read more
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....Read more
Mario turned up on time. So did the hitman.
Sometimes, playing by the rules can get you killed. When lawyer-turned-gangster Mario Condello accepted a curfew in order to get bail, he knew he had to be home every night at 10 o'clock. But so did a man with a gun....Read more
With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-...Read more