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All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | 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 : Updated Edition by Matthew Condon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | 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 Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
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