Smack Express: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs
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Smack Express: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs
Smack Express: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Gleebooks In Australia right now, it's all about gangsters. Underbelly continues its dominance on the Australian TV ratings ladder. And the attention that the media is bestowing on bikie gangs is bordering on the obsessive.Over the course of his career, Clive Small, one of NSW's most successful detectives, saw it all. His book, Smack Express: How Organised Crime got Hooked on Drugs is an insight into drug trafficking and organised crime on Australia's east coast. Written with journalist Tom Gilling, it features an extraordinary range of colourful characters and situations.Take "Aunty", the female drug lord who has been successfully importing kilos of cocaine into Australia for decades. Or the bloke who thought that throwing someone into the boot of a car and driving it to South Australia wasn't kidnapping, because "he never asked to get out of the boot".
ForaTV | April 24, 2009
