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It was the early 1980s and Sydney was awash with conspiracies many of which had one common element - Kings Cross.
Victorian QC Frank Costigan’s inquiry into the state’s nefarious Painters & Dockers Union had slipped across the Murray in what must have been a leaky boat because Sydney papers were agog with Costigan’s belief that a shadowy figure called The Goanna was the nation’s criminal mastermind. In an each way bet he had a similar view of a man called Gomorrah. The Goanna outed himself - Kerry Packer. Gomorrah was Abe Saffron. But in the grand tradition, there was more!
Conspiracy theories swept the city - Premier ‘Nifty’ Nev Wran was in cahoots with Abe and other allegedly nefarious characters ; the tragedy of Luna Park was not an accident but an arson as part of an evil corporate ploy; nightclubs and brothels were catching fire; members of the judiciary even High Court Judge Lionel Murphy, were bent; and on the streets of the Cross - the engine room of crime - the Bourbon was home to shadowy links to the CIA and a shonky bank; the inquest into the disappearance of Juanita Neilsen was on everyone’s lips, and hitman Chris ‘Rent A Kill’ Flannery, an habitué of the Cross, had disappeared in the middle of a gang war - was he in Brazil or at the bottom of Botany Bay?
Join Duncan and Brandy on a trip back to the Cross at its most turbulent - where gossip and conspiracy theories trumped over the facts.
Duncan McNab is a former police detective, private investigator, investigative journalist and media adviser to government and the private sector. He is the author of 12 books with the latest, on the Ruby Princess, due out this summer. His previous work includes the phenomenally bestselling DEAD MAN RUNNING (with Ross Coulthart), OUTLAW BIKERS IN AUSTRALIA, and WATERFRONT. Duncan was a producer on the Kennedy and Clarion award-winning MURDER UNCOVERED series (7 Network) in 2017. In 2017 his book GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER won the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime. In the same year, his bestselling book on disgraced former detective and convicted murderer ROGER ROGERSON was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime.
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