Gangland Queensland

Description

From the authors of the bestselling books Gangland Australia, Gangland Sydney and Gangland Queensland, comes the next in the series. Gangland Queensland heads north of the border to tell exploits of a colourful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug dealers, black hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers over the last century. Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s, and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of The Fitzgerald Inquiry and organized crime syndicates like Japan's Yakuza, authors James Morton and Susanna Lobez examine the scale of Queensland's crime scene in forensic and fascinating detail. Gangland Queensland is compulsive reading.

Author description

James Morton, a former defence lawyer in England, is one of Britain's leading experts on crime, and the author of more than twenty books including his best-selling Gangland series. Susanna Lobez is an actor-turned-barrister-turned-broadcaster. She has been an ABC specialist legal broadcaster on The Law Report (radio) and Law Matters (TV). She has written feature articles for The Age and columns for the Sunday Herald Sun. They are the co- authors of the best selling Gangland Australia as well as Dangerous to Know, an Encyclopedia of Australasian Crime. James Morton is also the co-author with Herald Sun journalist Russell Robinson of Shotgun and Standover, an account of the Painters and Dockers' Union.