Little Fish Are Sweet - Softcover

Condon, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070225410X ISBN 13: 9780702254109

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 2017

Synopsis

"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said ‘Little fish are sweet." —Jack ‘The Bagman’ Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988.
 Little Fish Are Sweet is Matthew Condon’s extraordinary personal account of writing the Three Crooked Kings trilogy. When Condon first interviewed disgraced former police commissioner Terry Lewis, he had no idea that it would be the start of a turbulent six-year journey. As hundreds of people came forward to share their powerful and sometimes shocking stories, decades of crime and corruption were revealed in a new light. 
 Risking threats and intimidation, Condon tirelessly pursued his investigations into a web of cold murder cases and past conspiracies. What he discovered is much more sinister than anyone could have imagined. 

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Condon is a prize-winning Australian novelist and journalist. He is currently on staff with the Courier-Mail’s Qweekend magazine. He began his journalism career with the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1984 and subsequently worked for leading newspapers and journals including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun-Herald and Melbourne’s Sunday Age. He has written ten books of fiction, most recently The Trout Opera (Random House, 2007) and is the author of the best-selling true-crime trilogy about Queensland crime and corruption?–?Three Crooked Kings (2013), Jacks and Jokers (2014) and All Fall Down (2015).

Review:

PRAISE FOR THREE CROOKED KINGS 'A powerful treatment of an inelegant past that still smoulders.' Weekend Australian 'Three Crooked Kings, has broken new ground in telling disgraced former police commissioner Terrence Lewis's story.' Australian 'Three Crooked Kings paints a compellingly dark picture ...' Sydney Morning Herald 'A kick arse piece of literary non-fiction!' John Birmingham, author of He Died With A Falafel in His Hand PRAISE FOR JACKS AND JOKERS 'Matthew Condon's true crime series is not just a compelling read: it is compulsory.' Australian Book Review PRAISE FOR ALL FALL DOWN 'All Fall Down is an exquisite finale to Matthew Condon's epic analysis of crime and corruption in mid-to-late-20th-century Queensland.' Sydney Morning Herald/Saturday Age. 'The trilogy, All Fall Down and its prequels Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers, is at once a master work of true crime, a significant work of history, and a highly accomplished work of literary narrative non-fiction.' Newtown Review of Books 'As an historical account alone this book is a standout, but what makes it exceptional is the author's success in penetrating the Lewis persona ... This is an excellent trilogy but, unfortunately for Lewis, it does not end with the dark knight rising.' Weekend Australian

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 070225410X
• ISBN 13: 9780702254109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304