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All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Three Kings part 3
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
Brisbane by Matthew Condon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood, Brisbane. Having returned there after many years, Condon takes the reader on a unique and personal journ ...Show more
Brisbane : Updated Edition by Matthew Condon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City Ser.
Part of a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, this unique and evocative exploration is part memoir and part guide to Australia's Brisbane. Intertwining personal stories with the city's historical past, this account paints a portrait of the contemporary transformation ...Show more
Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Three Kings part 2
The gripping second instalment of the rise--and spectacular fall--of one man, an entire state, and generations of corruption. "The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long." 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversia ...Show more
Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
The Toe Tag Quintet by Matthew Condon
$27.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Retirement can be murder! The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with half of the criminal milieu he once pursued, is shot, king-hit, tortu ...Show more
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Trout Operais a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia.Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, it is the story of simple rabbiter and farmhand Wilfred Lampe who, at the end ...Show more
Three Crooked Kings (10th anniversary) by Matthew Condon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. 'It was the genius of the system ... from day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kings is the sho ...Show more
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