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 sto
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
Little Fish Are Sweet takes the reader behind the scenes of Matthew’s Condon’s epic six-year, three-book journey, as he fights intimidation and legal threats while relentlessly pursuing the truth. Inv
A suite of novellas starring a detective who, in retirement, gets into more strife than he did in almost 40 years on the forceThese are the adventures of a former Sydney detective—loud of mouth and qu
Continuing on from the bestselling true crime stories Three Crooked Kings andJacks and Jokers, All Fall Down follows Terry Lewis as he becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the high
Continuing on from the bestselling true crime story Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commi
In the early 1970s, Queensland was a haven for crooks from both sides of the law. It was into this hothouse that Ray Whitrod was controversially appointed as police commissioner in 1970. Just six year
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
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 ha
