Adam Shand: 8 books
Outlaws
The truth about Australian bikers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dickhead magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.'
Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social...
Big Shots
Carl Williams & The Gangland Murders - The Inside Story, Comp
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
In 2003, Adam Shand, until then a finance journalist, naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families,...
The Real Chopper
The man behind the legend, inside and out
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Whether you loved him or thought he was just 'a toothless monster without a social conscience', by the time he died in October 2013, everyone knew who Chopper Read was - or thought they did . . .
Mark 'Chopper' Read was Australia's most popular notorious criminal. Read's fame spread in the 1990s with...
The Real Chopper
The Man Behind the Legend Inside and Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author . . . mythmaker?
Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly...
The Skull
Informers, Hit Men and Australia’s Toughest Cop
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy. Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs,...
Carl Williams
The Short Life & Violent Times of Melbourne's Gangland Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero - who was the real Carl Williams?
When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police...
by Adam Shand
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero who was the real Carl Williams? When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police service...
King of Thieves
The adventures of Arthur Delaney and The Kangaroo Gang
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Vast shoplifting ring operating in Britain
'A highly organised gang of Australian shoplifters is at work in Britain stealing goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. New members of the gang are flown from Australia whenever the organisers want replacements.'
The Guardian,...