Jacks and jokers / Matthew Condon ; cover photo illustration by Josh Durham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condon, Matthew, author.

Contributor:

Durham, Josh, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis, Terence.

Police corruption--Australia--Queensland.

Police corruption.

Police--Australia--Queensland--Biography.

Police.

Misconduct in office--Australia--Queensland.

Misconduct in office.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2014.

Summary:

Continuing on from the bestselling Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of The Joke, while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade. Meanwhile, ex-cop and Bagman Jack Herbert collects the payments and efficiently takes police graft to a whole new level. The Joke heralds an era of hard drugs, illegal gambling and prostitution, and leaves in its wake a string of unsolved murders and a trail of dirty money. With the highest levels of police and government turning a blind eye, the careers of honest police officers and the lives of innocent civilians are threatened and often lost as corruption escalates out of control. Revealing more incredible facts and previously untold stories, award-winning journalist and novelist Matthew Condon once again exposes the shocking behaviour outside the law by the law. Jacks and Jokers is the gripping second instalment of the rise and spectacular fall of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption."

Contents:

Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Prologue; 1970s; The Year of the Dragon; A Lemonade in Blackall; Love in the Lido; A Stellar Career; The Key Club; Detective Saunders; Politicking; The Shooter ; Town and City; In the Foul Wake of Frank Bischof; The Theatrical Constable Moore; The Hippies of Cedar Bay; A Monster Comes Calling; The Regrets of Kingsley Fancourt ; No. 1 Has Directed So; The Man with a Light Touch; A House on Fire; Flight; The New Boy; Slacks; A Small Target; Confidential; Murphy Takes Charge; Miss America; Committee of Eight

Walking to a Different BeatA Visit to the Matador Club; The Studious Constable Campbell; Old Acquaintances; Enter the Phantom; A White Uganda; Learning to Work with Joh; Crossing the King; The Premature Death of Bob Walker; Ride for Democracy; Milligan and the Corn Farmer; Matters Big and Small; Murphy and the Plane Thieves; Milligan Plans the Drop; Still No Letters from Home; Tales of Roland and Ron the Maori; That's Government Policy Now; But This Was Not Peace; Into Thin Air; Cleaning Out the House; Milligan, the Reluctant Bushman; Pincer; Taking to the Streets; A Quiet Word

The Premier PhonedAngels Fear to Tread; Permission to Speak to the Media, Please; Three Corners; What Wilby Saw; Innocent; Campbell and the Boss; A System Set in Stone; The Boxer; Bombs and Knights; On Burning Mountain; Hunting the Hound; Plenty of Kills; A Call from Across Town; Jeppesen Smells a Rat; Sweet; Marlin Goes Fishing; Mr Asia Books a Room; Top of the Valley, Top of the World; The Elusive John Edward Milligan; A Private Dinner; Four Photographs; Circumstantial Evidence; In Queen Street; The Zebra; A Delegation; Good Fun at the Belfast; Hicks Goes to Gaol; One Shot to the Head

An Incident at the Cleveland SandsElvis Has Left the Building; A Tired and Nervous Eagle; The Purge Begins; Monuments; New Year's Death; Operation Jungle; Dear Mr Premier; A Hat is Lost in King George Square; A Deadly Tip-off to The Eagle; The Madness of Marlin; Approval Withdrawn; Dust to Dust; Shallow Grave; The Fake Raid; Big Bucks; Global Girls; Goodbye to the Big Fella; Empty Rooms; Wives and Mothers; Suite; Jobs for the Boys; A Cheery Hello from an Old Soldier; Medically Retired; Quality Escorts; Milligan Sings; Death of the Monster; Boxes; Spy vs Spy; Scandal in the House

Lickiss RisesThe Stranger; 1980s; A Working Holiday; Looking for the McCulkin Girls; Milligan Takes the Stand; Super Saturday; Another Briefcase Full of Cash; Justice Williams Reports; One-Armed Bandits; Office Romance; Meeting an Informant; Murphy to Cairns; More of the Same; Mona and the Jockey; Jack and Jack; Slade Travels North; The Chairman Takes His Seat; Shot Dead in Their Bed; The Seductive Katherine James; Monster Book; Into the Valley; The Woolloongabba Worrier; Trisha Traffic is Born; One Transfer Too Many; I See Nothing; The Rise of Fitzgerald; Take It to the Top Level

The Bikie Bandits

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7022-5198-4

OCLC:

875097503