Description: Three Crooked Kings, Paperback by Condon, Matthew, ISBN 0702238910, ISBN-13 9780702238918, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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&;s 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 murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting, and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight. Based on unprecedented interviews with Terry Lewis and access to his personal papers, this book is the missing piece in the puzzle of the story of Queensland&;s endemic generational corruption.
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Book Title: Three Crooked Kings
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Three Crooked Kings
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Subject: Corruption & Misconduct, Government / General, World / Canadian, General, Law Enforcement, Australia & New Zealand
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Matthew Condon
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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