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Underbelly
Underbelly
Series ·
18
books · 1997-2016
By
Andrew Rule
,
John Silvester
Books in series
#1
Underbelly
1997
As the world goes about its daily business, criminals and cops engage in a deadly battle of wits. This book delves into the crimes that police have to deal with day after day. Murderers, hitmen, kidnappers, and drug dealers all feature in this collection of true crime stories. Take the drug dealer who walked out of a restaurant bragging that he's killed a man—unaware that his fellow diner was an undercover policeman. Or the young mother, whose death was written off as suicide, but which subsequent investigation proved to be something much more sinister.
#2
Underbelly 2
1998
He got the job. Then he got the bullet. You've seen the television series and read the stories in the papers. Now return to the books that started documenting Australia's underbelly. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
#3
Underbelly 3
1999
They couldn't shoot holes in Fred's story. So they shot holes in Fred instead. You've seen the television series and read the stories in the papers. Now return to the books that started documenting Australia's underbelly. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
#4
Underbelly 4
2000
He took the contract. It was to die for. You've seen the television series and read the stories in the papers. Now return to the books that started documenting Australia's underbelly. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
#5
Underbelly 5
2000
She had the will... he had the way The old lady just wanted to enjoy her last few years. The adopted son wanted to inherit her savings. He persuaded his own son to bash her to death. He got the lot and bought a yacht to sail the Pacific. His son got fifteen years jail. Money has no morality. Greed has no guilt. This is Australia's underbelly.
#6
Underbelly 6
2002
Lorraine Moss loved to cook...her meatloaf was to die for. No one knew what made Johnny Moss sick. The robust slaughterman was reduced to life in a wheelchair as his health failed by degrees. Friends marvelled at the way his wife stuck by her man as he faded and, finally, died in agony. It took police 18 years to prove that she had slowly poisoned him. Seemingly normal people capable of evil beyond belief. This is Australia's underbelly.
#7
Underbelly 7
2003
Reptiles killed Aubrey Broughill...but which ones? It takes balls to become Australia's oldest stick-up man. In a 60-year criminal career Aubrey 'Grandpa Harry' Broughill had what it took, right to the end. But when his bloated body was found in a flooded quarry, his testicles were missing. Turtles were blamed - but there are doubts. Police know Broughill was the victim of cold-blooded predators. But was it the eastern snake-necked turtle - or something lower? This is really Australia's underbelly.
#8
Underbelly 8
2004
Gangsters use guns to climb out of the gutter, but often find themselves back in it, handcuffed or even dead. This is Australia's underbelly.
#9
Underbelly 9
2005
Available in ebook for the first time. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
#10
Underbelly 10
2006
Mario turned up on time. So did the hitman.
Sometimes, playing by the rules can get you killed. When lawyer-turned-gangster Mario Condello accepted a curfew in order to get bail, he knew he had to be home every night at 10 o'clock. But so did a man with a gun. From gang wars to bent cops, from bandits to bikies, this is Australia's underbelly.
Authors
Andrew Rule
Author · 22 books
John Silvester
Author · 13 books
#11
Underbelly 11
2007
Available in ebook for the first time. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
#12
Underbelly
2007
Book
#13
Underbelly
2009
Author(s): John Silvester & Andrew Rule ISBN: 9780977544097 Binding: Paperback Published: 2009-02-01 Made in Melbourne. Slayed in Sydney. Chris 'Rentakill' Flannery was a Melbourne gunman who sold his services to Sin City's highest bidder. He went on the missing list because he didn't realise the future belonged to those who controlled pills and powders, not pistols. A world of corrupt cops, bent politicians and beautiful women who fell for the rich gangsters, And a few detectives trying to stop the tidal wave. This was Australia's underbelly.
#14
Underbelly
2010
It's 1989 and the cops are on the take and the crims are on the make. They are kings of the Cross. They run the street that put the sin in Sin City. The Golden Mile. Kim Hollingsworth is a policeman's daughter who wants to follow daddy's footsteps. She's a stripper and a hooker but that's no problem - until she blows the whistle on bent cops who think they can stand over her. They are wrong. Then there's 'Teflon John' Ibrahim, the rising star who made his name looking after the Bayeh brothers. And there are Trevor Haken, Chook Fowler and the other Kings Cross cops who treat the street as their playground - and play as if there's no tomorrow. But, in 1995, tomorrow the Wood Royal Commission takes on the Black Knights in the police force. The result is mayhem. The Golden Mile is the story of the collapse of a gloriously corrupt empire, of the chaos that follows and the ultimate victory of strong and honest police. A story seen through the eyes of some of the most charming, corrupt, deadly and sexy people of the time. In the end, the police win control of the most infamous strip in Australia. For now.
#15
Underbelly
2010
true crime stories, including carl williams,walsh street and colin maclarens infiltration
#16
Underbelly
2013
Mokbelly: The Final Chapter of the Underbelly War or how Carl, Tony and Judy met their match.
#17
Underbelly
2015
It's the story linking unsolved crimes that have taunted and haunted police and victims' families for years - four murders as dark and daring as any in Australian organised crime and a string of million-dollar heists.
#18
Underbelly
2016
'Pino' Acquaro got his big Italian funeral, but the mobsters didn't get the memo. The church was packed but nearly every gangster he knew stayed away. The handsome mafia lawyer had bungled burning down his Brunswick bar for the insurance but he had burned his bridges beyond repair. A couple of hard men turned up. The sort that wear sunglasses in church. One was the departed's last client, a cool customer who'd been a regular at Acquaro's bar. And there was a bald heavyweight wearing so much chunky gold he'd hardly need concrete boots if he had to be sent to sleep with the fishes. The dead man's son read from the Book of Wisdom. The bit that says he who lives among sinners being carried off before treachery seduces the soul. Good advice but it came too late for the guy in the coffin...Just another tale from Australia's underbelly. There are plenty more in Shot at Close Range, the latest from the writers that have charted the rise and rise of crime in this country for more than twenty years.
