Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams and the Gangland Wars by Adam Shand

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Back cover left tail corner has been bent. Pages have started to sun.

In 2003, Adam Shand, until then a financial journalist, naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. With a few months of research, a guaranteed cover story emerged. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. Before long, he was counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets.

Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multi-billion dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto, and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings splashed across the front pages and then comes to question his objectivity. And even whether he is being used to further the players' murderous ends.