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Dark City by John Silvester
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
True crime icon John Silvester has been reporting on Australia's criminal underbelly for over forty years. Navigating the murky intersections between the lawmakers and lawbreakers, Silvester has drawn on a lifetime's work rubbing shoulders with the good guys, the bad guys and the downright dirty. He hol ...Show more
Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld Wars by John Silvester
$19.95 AUD
$33.95 (41% off)
Category: True Crime
When you're hot your're hot and when you're shot you're shot. Another day, another underworld funeral. In Melbourne, generations of gangsters have lived and died by the creed "We catch and kill our own". But now the violence bubbling under the surface has spilled into open war on the streets. This is th ...Show more
McVillain: The Man Who Got Away by Andrew Rule and John Silvester
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Bringing two kilos of fine China White heroin from the Golden Triangle to safe hiding in Melbourne had become a worldwide dance of false trails and triple identities ... but the cash rewards at the time might make a saint doubt his calling.' David McMillan should have known better.
Naked City by John Silvester
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys, pool halls and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, ...Show more
Underbelly: Shot at Close Range by John Silvester
$22.99 AUD
$27.99 (17% off)
Category: True Crime
'Pino' Acquaro got his big Italian funeral, but the mobsters didn't get the memo. The church was packed but nearly every gangster he knew stayed away. The handsome mafia lawyer had bungled burning down his Brunswick bar for the insurance but he had burned his bridges beyond repair. A couple of hard men ...Show more
Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester
$24.95 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: True Crime
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, women and bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl didn't return the favour: one by one, Moran, his family, and friends were shot dead ...Show more
Underbelly: The Golden Casket by John Silvester
$22.95 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: True Crime | Series: Underbelly
Carl Williams once liked to brag he won Australia's bloodiest underworld war because he survived when most of his rivals couldn't. Even while inside Victoria's maximum-security prison he saw the last man standing from the Moran clan gunned down outside a coffee shop in a middle class suburb. By then the ...Show more
Underbelly: The Golden Mile by John Silvester
$24.99 AUD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: True Crime
It's 1989 and the cops are on the take and the crims are on the make. They are kings of the Cross. They run the street that put the sin in Sin City. The Golden Mile. Strippers, gamblers, gunmen, dealers, bouncers, bagmen they all come to where the action is. Kim Hollingsworth is a policeman's daughter w ...Show more
Underbelly Where the Bodies are Buried by John Silvester
$22.95 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: True Crime
It's the missing link - the story that ties the Underbelly cast of characters to a series of unsolved crimes that have taunted police and haunted victims' families for decades. That includes at least three brazen heists totalling $6million - and four murders as dark and as daring as any in the history o ...Show more
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