Operation Jungle
- SKU: 9780702263248
- Category: Biography, Autobiography & Memoirs, Law & Criminology, Thrillers
This is a story probably without precedent in the history of Australian law enforcement. And it all began late in the summer of 1978-79, when John Shobbrook and his fellow investigators headed north to Cairns ... That was when Shobbrook entered a very, very dangerous jungle.
Matthew Condon, author of Three Crooked Kings
In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages.
When narcotics agent John Shobbrook took on the investigation of this audacious crime, codenamed 'Operation Jungle', his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. What he discovered unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that not only destroyed his own career, but led to the disbanding of the Narcotics Bureau.
Operation Jungle is a gripping true story about the high cost of truth and the far-reaching tentacles of greed and corruption that cross state borders and legal jurisdictions.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: John Shobbrook
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Published: 08/03/2021
ISBN: 9780702263248
Pages: 232
This is a story probably without precedent in the history of Australian law enforcement. And it all began late in the summer of 1978-79, when John Shobbrook and his fellow investigators headed north to Cairns ... That was when Shobbrook entered a very, very dangerous jungle.
Matthew Condon, author of Three Crooked Kings
In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages.
When narcotics agent John Shobbrook took on the investigation of this audacious crime, codenamed 'Operation Jungle', his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. What he discovered unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that not only destroyed his own career, but led to the disbanding of the Narcotics Bureau.
Operation Jungle is a gripping true story about the high cost of truth and the far-reaching tentacles of greed and corruption that cross state borders and legal jurisdictions.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: John Shobbrook
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Published: 08/03/2021
ISBN: 9780702263248
Pages: 232
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