A review by frumpleton
Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon

5.0

The only bit of Brisbane history that's genuinely interesting. I love how the corrupt as hell Commissioner Lewis was the central interviewee and provided all his documents as well, which only served to provide more evidence of the horrible police state. He manages to be a good paper-rustler too, covering up all the corruption to the point where he was seeing off an investigation into the police force nearly every year. Then as icing on the cake he directly implicates his closest collaborator, Tony Murphy, and then in the same breath removes himself from being a key player in three decades of graft and fostering a serious criminal underworld in Brisbane for police's financial gain.