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Inside Australia's Underworld Wars

by Andrew Rule and John Silvester
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2010

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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 the story of the gangsters, the hitmen and the plice who deal with them in the deadliest game of all.
ISBN:
9780975231807
9780975231807
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2010
Publisher:
Floradale Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x23mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Andrew Rule

Multi-award-winning journalist Andrew Rule has covered some of the most notorious Australian stories of recent decades. Rule has written, edited or published more than 30 true crime books - including the best-selling Underbelly series with John 'Sly' Silvester.

He wrote the definitive biography of businessman Kerry Stokes, published in 2015, and the award-winning biography of the world champion racehorse Winx in 2018. He is now an associate editor of Australia's biggest daily, the Herald Sun, for which he writes features and columns.

John Silvester

John Silvester and Andrew Rule have broken, covered or followed the biggest crime stories in Australia since the 1980s.

They co-authored the Underbelly series of books that inspired the landmark television drama of the same name, as well as the Chopper series that led to the cult international feature film starring Eric Bana.

Silvester is senior crime editor with Fairfax media. Rule is associate editor with the Melbourne Herald Sun.

Silvester appears weekly on Victoria's top-rating 3AW breakfast show and Rule is a regular contributor to the MMM FM network in Melbourne and Adelaide and is host of a new crime podcast, Good Cop Bad Cop to be launched in June.

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