Dimensions
228 x 177 x 27mm
The inner-city ghettos of East Sydney were once the most dangerous streets in Australia. In the 1920s, 30s and 40s razor gangs slashed and mutilated each other, and anyone else who got in their way, in an effort to wrest control of the lucrative illegal sly grog, prostitution, SP betting and cocaine rackets.
Gang leaders like Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and Phil "The Jew" Jeffs made fortunes whilst their henchmen such as Guido Calletti and Frank "The little Gunman" Green killed, extorted and bashed with impunity. Facing them were the police - some corrupt, some honest, and a few as tough and as feared as the gangsters they fought.
This book is the true story of this netherworld of violence and vice, and of the extraordinary characters that populated it. Most of all, it is the story of the city that created it.
