Sledgehammer Beck : one honest cop vs Sydney's crime bosses / Fia Cumming
- Bib ID:
- 10009556
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cumming, Fia, author
- Description:
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- Calwell, ACT : Inspiring Publishers, [2023]
- ©2023
- vi, 433 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922920447 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Sledgehammer Beck shines the light into the murky corridors of one of the darkest periods in Australian law enforcement history. Max Beck was born to be an extraordinary policeman and from the outset he proved his mettle. But he was never more severely tested him with closing the illegal casinos and bookmakers which were the lifeblood of Sydney's burgeoning organised crime syndicates. Sledgehammer Beck provides startling insights into many of the mysteries and scandals that have beset New South Wales since the mid-1970s, up to and including the contemporary crises over money laundering in poker machines and plush, billion-dollar casinos." --Back cover.
- Subject:
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- Beck, Max
- New South Wales. Police Service -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- New South Wales. Police Service -- History
- Detectives -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Organized crime -- New South Wales -- History
- Organized crime investigation -- New South Wales -- History
- Money laundering investigation -- New South Wales -- History
- Corruption investigation -- New South Wales -- History
- Criminal investigation and detection
- Police and security services
- Organized crime
- Corruption in politics, government and society
- New South Wales -- History
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Also Titled:
- Sledgehammer Beck : one honest cop versus Sydney's crime bosses
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