Razor. A True Story Of Slashers, Gangsters, Prostitutes And Sly Grog

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 336 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: In the 1920s and 30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australias history waged war with razor and gun. As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with blood. Razor chronicles in compelling detail the nether world ruled by fabled vice queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, and financed by the spoils of illegal drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling and extortion. Gangsters such as Guido Calletti, Big Jim Devine and Frank the Little Gunman Green killed, robbed and slashed with impunity. Facing them were the police - some corrupt, some honest, and a few as tough and feared as the razor gangs they fought. Razor is the fascinating true story of the people who lived and died in this world of violence and vice. Razor brings a citys dark past back to life, and ensures that you will never look at inner Sydney in quite the same way again.

ISBN: 9780330363358