Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive accountโa searing story of greed, crime, and corruptionโof an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, re
Three Crooked Kings
โ Scribed by Condon, Matthew
- Book ID
- 107578852
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- ar-SA
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780702238918
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โฆ Synopsis
Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account--a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption--of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement. Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s. This book follows Lewis' journey through the ranks, as he becomes part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glenn Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof. The alleged suicide of prostitute and brothel madam Shirley Brifman in the early 1970s provides the turning point for a culture that reigned unchecked for several decades. It was part of a grand narrative teeming with...
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