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Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld Wars by John Silvester
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
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'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
Category: Biography
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
Outside the Law Vols 1 and 2 Bind Up by Andrew Rule John Silvester
Category: True Crime
Take a trip into the shadows of Australian society with some of Australia's foremost true crime writers as they explore the effect on innocent victims caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Contributors include Underbelly's John Silvester and Andrew Rule, Robin Bowles, Lindy Cameron, and Paul B. K ...Show more
Rats: Crooks Who Got Away with it by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
Rats: these are the vermin who get away with robbery, extortion, abduction, rape and murder. Sometimes we suspect, sometimes it's a mystery.
Tough: An Australian Crime Companion by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
Who's who in the zoo? Now you'll know too. Armed robbers, bikies, bent cops, con men, drug dealers, fraudsters, gangsters, hitmen and hard menTough is a unique compendium of Australian villains.
Underbelly 1: True Crime Stories by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
The real story of crime, cops and corruption. Both senior journalists in crime reporting, the authors have gathered undercover tape recordings, confessions, criminal's diaries and personal interviews to gain a rare insight into the workings of the underworld.
Underbelly 11: True Crime Stories by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
This, the eleventh in the Underbelly series, tells stories of murder, gang brutality, organised crime, prostitution, right through to random acts of madness and downright stupidity from society's underbelly.
Underbelly 2: More True Crime Stories by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
More stories of real crime, cops and corruption. Both senior journalists in crime reporting, the authors have gathered undercover tape recordings, confessions, criminal's diaries and personal interviews to gain a rare insight into the workings of the underworld.
Underbelly 4 by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
More true crime stories in the popular Underbelly series.