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Deception

Deception

The true story of the international drug plot that brought down Australia's top law enforcer Mark Standen

by Charles Miranda
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/05/2013

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He was a 'crooked hat', a bent copper, and he was working with a notorious Dutch crime cartel to flood Australia with millions of dollars' worth of drugs.

To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a stand-up guy, a top cop who was never one to mince his words. As an assistant director for the NSW Crime Commission, he led some of Australia's most high-profile criminal investigations and, as a 30-year veteran in law enforcement, there was little he didn't know about the underworld. He had been privy to every top secret police operation into organised crime and international drug running in Australia except one - Operation Octans, which saw him arrested as the mastermind behind one of the country's biggest-ever drug-smuggling plots.

Standen's breach of security was breath-taking, prompting a review of every major police operation he had knowledge of. The fallout from discovering this rat in the ranks - a man driven by sex, greed and an insatiable gambling habit - reaches around the world.

Charles Miranda was given world exclusive access to go inside the joint Dutch-Australian operation that was one of the most extensive and covert ever mounted. He follows the twists and turns in the plot that made front page news across Australia. Engrossing, frightening and action packed, this is truly a story that everybody will be talking about.
ISBN:
9781743315552
9781743315552
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-05-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
342
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x28mm
Weight:
0.33kg

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