The Resource Jacks and Jokers
Jacks and Jokers
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The item Jacks and Jokers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Jacks and Jokers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780702251993
- Label
- Jacks and Jokers
- Title
- Jacks and Jokers
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew Condon
- Subject
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- trueMisconduct in office
- truePolice misconduct
- trueQueensland, Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct
- True Crime
- trueLewis, Terence Murray, 1928-
- Nonfiction
- trueLife stories -- Law and order | Criminals and law-breakers
- trueAustralia -- Politics and government
- trueAustralian literature
- trueTrue Crime -- Police and Lawyers
- truePolice
- truePolitical corruption
- truePolice corruption
- trueQueensland -- Politics and government -- 1976-1990
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Summary
- The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling Three Crooked Kings. Here we read about the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. The story continues as Terry Lewis becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police and government continues
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10465347
- Cataloging source
- NOV
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Condon, Matthew
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- True Crime
- Nonfiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Jacks and Jokers
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:e8daf70b-a325-438e-be19-90d95a9f42f6
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780702251993
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Jacks and Jokers
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:e8daf70b-a325-438e-be19-90d95a9f42f6
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780702251993
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueAustralia -- Politics and government
- trueAustralian literature
- trueLewis, Terence Murray, 1928-
- trueLife stories -- Law and order | Criminals and law-breakers
- trueMisconduct in office
- Nonfiction
- truePolice
- truePolice corruption
- truePolice misconduct
- truePolitical corruption
- trueQueensland -- Politics and government -- 1976-1990
- trueQueensland, Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct
- True Crime
- trueTrue Crime -- Police and Lawyers
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