Untold Violence: Crime In Melbourne Today - Tom Noble

In the 1980s Melbournians lost any illusions they might have had about living in a peaceful city. Massacres, bombings a rising crime rate and a booming drug trade, rising levels of violence having all left their mark.

Most crime in Melbourne is neither celebrated enough to live in the memory of its citizens, nor is it particularly well organised in the sense of being rigidly controlled by mafias or triads or networks. But behind the headlines, the television news stories and the 30-second radio grabs, is a criminal world built on money, power and violence, a world where those with guns, intelligence, ruthlessness, ingenuity and connections live, sometimes to proser, sometimes to meet violent deaths. Untold Violence offers a rare look inside Melbourne's crime scene - its shape, its sustenance and its people - and tells many of the stories that never named the headlines.

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