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Evil Life

The true story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
By Tom Gilling and Clive Small
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Evil Life uncovers the dark realities of the Calabrian mafia in Australia, the nation's oldest and most ruthless crime syndicate. The book details how this organisation has trafficked drugs worth billions and laundered money through complex international networks. It exposes nearly 40 murders linked to the mafia since the 1970s and traces the syndicate’s evolution from small beginnings in Queensland to a sprawling presence in every major Australian city, directly controlled by bosses in Calabria.
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The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.

Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly to bosses in Calabria and profits are funnelled back to the mother organisation. Yet despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Federal and State law enforcement agencies have long assured the public that there is no Calabrian mafia in Australia.

With powerful and uncompromising clarity, Evil Life shatters this myth. Drawing on court documents and unreleased intelligence reports, as well as interviews with well-informed sources, the authors reveal how the Calabrian mafia evolved from its beginnings on the north Queensland cane fields in the 1920s to establish cells in every major capital city, making Australia a key outpost in the world of global organised crime.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760296179

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 426g

Pages: 368

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Biography & Memoir Clive Small Crime & Thriller Education & Reference Fiction Tom Gilling True Crime

About the Author

Clive Small and Tom Gilling are the authors of the bestselling Smack Express, Blood Money, Milat and Betrayed. Clive is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, NSW. Tom Gilling is a highly regarded investigative journalist and fiction writer.

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