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  • The Dark Side

  • The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade
  • By: Clive Small, Tom Gilling
  • Narrated by: Peter Hosking
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)

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The Dark Side

By: Clive Small,Tom Gilling
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
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Publisher's Summary

A fierce and compelling exposé of organised crime and the role of a senior law enforcement officer in Australia's multibillion-dollar drug trade.

'Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'

Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gilling show how Australian crime gangs, in partnership with violent international syndicates, have exploited lax law enforcement and corruption on the nation's waterfront to import narcotics on a vast scale from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.

The authors reveal for the first time the corrupt history of Mark Standen, the senior investigator at the New South Wales Crime Commission whose conviction on drug importation charges sparked Australia's biggest law-enforcement crisis since the Wood royal commission. In the process they expose the cover-ups, strategic blunders and missed opportunities that continue to make Australia a soft target for international drug traffickers.

©2017 Clive Small and Tom Gilling (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Worth the price

A very well laid out book! Very current and interesting read. Would recommend to everyone.

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Too confusing

Too many names and stories flying around by a narrator who who hardly comes up for air . Gave up after the 1st hour . What a waste of $$$

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Terrible Narration.

Too many names and too may subplots too early in the book. I found myself zoning out with the monochrome tones of the narrative. Sorry. I didn’t get to the 2nd hour of this book.

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Narration is bad

Don't waste your time on this book it goes round n round and narrator can't pronounce words

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ramble

there is no solid storyline and I found it was just hours of reading hundreds of people's dossiers and associations. very fifficult to follow along to.

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Rubbish

Unfortunately I wish I had read the reviews before I bought it. It is terrible

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Disappointed.

Bought this because I read Milat and was interested to read more from the authors. This book is really detail heavy and isn’t suited to the audiobook medium. Would recommend against listening to this.

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Rubbish book

Don’t waste your time . So many better true crime books out there. An obvious cash grab . Narrator sucks so bad

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Busterbaddog

Found this book hard to get into was interesting but not riveting worth the time if the under world interests you

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ok.

It's basically some separate stories about drug smuggling arrests.
It's quite interesting.
not every chapter is good but most are. Mark Stannton is pretty stupid yet it only tells of when people where arrested not when they got away with there criminal ways.

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