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The Resource Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop, Keith Banks with Ben Smith

Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop, Keith Banks with Ben Smith

Label
Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop
Title
Drugs, guns & lies
Title remainder
my life as an undercover cop
Statement of responsibility
Keith Banks with Ben Smith
Title variation
Drugs, guns and lies
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated police officers and his journey into the drug scene as an undercover operative in the 1980s. In an era of corruption, often alone, with no backup, he and other undercover cops quickly learned to blend into the drug scene, smoking dope and drinking with targets, buying drugs and having dealers arrested. Very quickly, the lines were blurred between his identity as a police officer and the life he pretended to be part of. This is a raw and confronting story of undercover cops who all became casualties of that era, some worse than others and where not everyone with a badge could be trusted
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
YDX
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Banks, Keith
Dewey number
363.2092
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • plates
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Smith, Ben
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Banks, Keith
  • Police
  • Undercover operations
  • Drug control
Target audience
adult
Label
Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop, Keith Banks with Ben Smith
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000067268381
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvii, 282 pages, 8 unnumberd pages of plates
Isbn
9781760877958
Media category
  • unmediated
  • cartographic image
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdacontent
Media type code
  • n
  • cri
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1149727816
Label
Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop, Keith Banks with Ben Smith
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000067268381
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvii, 282 pages, 8 unnumberd pages of plates
Isbn
9781760877958
Media category
  • unmediated
  • cartographic image
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdacontent
Media type code
  • n
  • cri
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1149727816

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