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An Inside Story of Corruption, Crooks and Killers
More incredible stories from the authors of the best-selling The Second Father: An Insider&'s Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption Who&'s Who in the Zoo is a first-hand account of Domenico &'Mick&' Cacciola&'s life as a CIB and Special Branch detective over three decades. It captures the colour and grit of policing in Brisbane&'s Fortitude Valley, which in its heyday was the sleazy epicentre of gambling and prostitution. Be transported to the pre- and post-Fitzgerald Inquiry eras: the crooked cops, the corrupt politicians, the stand-over men, the informants, the bank robbers, the drugs, the murderers, the crime and the violence. From making the arrest in Australia&'s first televised siege (the hijacking of the Seaworld helicopter) to being expected to chauffeur Commissioner Terry Lewis&'s mother around, Cacciola has done - and seen - it all. He held a gun to the head of a hitman contracted by the Griffith mafia to kill Cacciola himself and grasped desperately as a woman trying to suicide off a bridge slipped from his fingers. Always an honest cop, Cacciola was told to turn a blind eye to the gambling and prostitution rife in the Valley. He did as he was told, for a while anyway Just as the bestselling Three Crooked Kings captured a nation&'s interest, this in-your-face true-crime book will enthrall.
More incredible stories from the authors of the best-selling The Second Father: An Insider&'s Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption Who&'s Who in the Zoo is a first-hand account of Domenico &'Mick&' Cacciola&'s life as a CIB and Special Branch detective over three decades. It captures the colour and grit of policing in Brisbane&'s Fortitude Valley, which in its heyday was the sleazy epicentre of gambling and prostitution. Be transported to the pre- and post-Fitzgerald Inquiry eras: the crooked cops, the corrupt politicians, the stand-over men, the informants, the bank robbers, the drugs, the murderers, the crime and the violence. From making the arrest in Australia&'s first televised siege (the hijacking of the Seaworld helicopter) to being expected to chauffeur Commissioner Terry Lewis&'s mother around, Cacciola has done - and seen - it all. He held a gun to the head of a hitman contracted by the Griffith mafia to kill Cacciola himself and grasped desperately as a woman trying to suicide off a bridge slipped from his fingers. Always an honest cop, Cacciola was told to turn a blind eye to the gambling and prostitution rife in the Valley. He did as he was told, for a while anyway Just as the bestselling Three Crooked Kings captured a nation&'s interest, this in-your-face true-crime book will enthrall.