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jm_donellan's review against another edition
5.0
Essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in QLD politics and corruption, or if you just enjoy a good true crime story. The scale and the length of the crimes investigated here is incredible, as are the larger than life characters who remained unrepentant until the bitter end.
frumpleton's review against another edition
5.0
Fascinating look into the corruption, crime and cover-up at nearly every level of the Queensland government and police force in the 80s. Terry Lewis's insights are more absent in this final volume of Condon's trilogy (obviously not much comment on all the corruption), but it is interesting to see just how filled with revenge and hatred he was over the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the intricate campaign he ran from prison to try to clear his name in the face of overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing. Also interesting was the police and government cover-up of paedophile rings that reached right to the top of Joh's government, and a botched inquiry investigating it that took place a decade after Fitzgerald's Inquiry. Truly sickening.
Finally, a history book about Queensland that's worth reading. I always thought Queensland had a mundane and boring history but turns out the state was rotten to the core for thirty years or more.
Finally, a history book about Queensland that's worth reading. I always thought Queensland had a mundane and boring history but turns out the state was rotten to the core for thirty years or more.
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