The Dark Side
The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade
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The Dark Side
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Peter Hosking
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A fierce and compelling exposé of organised crime and the role of a senior law enforcement officer in Australia's multibillion-dollar drug trade.
'Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'
Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gilling show how Australian crime gangs, in partnership with violent international syndicates, have exploited lax law enforcement and corruption on the nation's waterfront to import narcotics on a vast scale from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
The authors reveal for the first time the corrupt history of Mark Standen, the senior investigator at the New South Wales Crime Commission whose conviction on drug importation charges sparked Australia's biggest law-enforcement crisis since the Wood royal commission. In the process they expose the cover-ups, strategic blunders and missed opportunities that continue to make Australia a soft target for international drug traffickers.
©2017 Clive Small and Tom Gilling (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about The Dark Side
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- Anonymous User
- 21-07-2021
ok.
It's basically some separate stories about drug smuggling arrests.
It's quite interesting.
not every chapter is good but most are. Mark Stannton is pretty stupid yet it only tells of when people where arrested not when they got away with there criminal ways.
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- kane mcnair
- 18-09-2019
A new way to tell the same old story.
so many crazy stories like this (Snowing in Bali also) but this one is really well put together. Tells many different stories often stories inside of stories. Sometimes can be overwhelming to remember how these people know eachother. You have to remember like a jigsaw to look at the bigger picture.
All of this into the true story of corruption in Australia and around the world.
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- Dicko
- 01-05-2019
Terrible Narration.
Too many names and too may subplots too early in the book. I found myself zoning out with the monochrome tones of the narrative. Sorry. I didn’t get to the 2nd hour of this book.
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- Chris
- 26-03-2019
Worth the price
A very well laid out book! Very current and interesting read. Would recommend to everyone.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-12-2023
ramble
there is no solid storyline and I found it was just hours of reading hundreds of people's dossiers and associations. very fifficult to follow along to.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-12-2022
Busterbaddog
Found this book hard to get into was interesting but not riveting worth the time if the under world interests you
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- Anonymous User
- 27-02-2023
Disappointed.
Bought this because I read Milat and was interested to read more from the authors. This book is really detail heavy and isn’t suited to the audiobook medium. Would recommend against listening to this.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-2023
Rubbish
Unfortunately I wish I had read the reviews before I bought it. It is terrible
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- JJJ
- 24-02-2024
Narration is bad
Don't waste your time on this book it goes round n round and narrator can't pronounce words
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- drizlax
- 19-08-2021
Too confusing
Too many names and stories flying around by a narrator who who hardly comes up for air . Gave up after the 1st hour . What a waste of $$$
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