Drugs, Guns & Lies

Drugs, Guns & Lies

by Keith Banks and Ben Smith
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/07/2020

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A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is what it's really like to be an undercover police officer.


'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The Age


Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.


This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated police officers, and his journey into the world of drugs as an undercover operative in the 1980s. In an era of corruption, often alone and with no backup, he and other undercover cops quickly learned to blend into the drug scene, smoking dope and drinking with targets, buying drugs and then having dealers arrested. Very quickly, the lines between his identity as a police officer and the life he pretended to be part of became blurred.


This is a raw and confronting story of undercover cops who all became casualties of that era, some more than others, when not everyone with a badge could be trusted.

ISBN:
9781760874544
9781760874544
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-07-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Keith Banks

Keith Banks is one of Queensland's most decorated police officers.

He was in the Queensland Police Force for twenty years (1975-95), going undercover during the premiership of Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Terry Lewis' time as police commissioner, the most notoriously corrupt period in Queensland history.

Ben Smith

Ben Smith lives in Cornwall and is a lecturer in creative writing at Plymouth University, specializing in environmental literature and focusing particularly on oceans, climate change and the 'Anthropocene’. His first poetry pamphlet, Sky Burials, was published by Worple Press and his poetry and criticism have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

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