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Underbelly

Underbelly

The Gangland War

by Andrew Rule and John Silvester
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/01/2009

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John Moran and Carl Williams were the two biggest rival drug barons in Australia. They certainly weren't partners, but they weren't sworn enemies. One day, they had a meeting to end a dispute over drug money. Thinking he could scare his rival into submission, Moran pulled the trigger on Carl but decided not to finish the job off. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life. Carl was hell bent on revenge. Within months, most of the Moran family and a host of underworld figures would die in an astonishing spate of revenge killings which shook the public and the police to the core. Murder, greed, drugs, sex and corruption abound in a story that reads like a piece of gangster fiction. But in Underbelly, the bullets and the blood are grippingly real. This is true crime of the highest order - the amazing story of a powerful man who did things his way and eventually orchestrated his own terrible downfall.
ISBN:
9781844547371
9781844547371
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-01-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
378
Dimensions (mm):
203x127x25mm
Weight:
0.29kg
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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