Rip Off. Australian Fraud, Deception And Dirty Tricks

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Five Mile Press
Publisher Place: Scoresby
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 250 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Theyre the rip-offs. And theyve been around in Australia since 1622 when The Trial went down off the coast of Western Australia and the surviving captain stole the treasure in its hold. The rip-offs never sleep. They just go on and on. In 33 wide-ranging chapters, Paul Taylor looks at some of Australias best-known rip-offs: the Wagga Wagga butcher who hoodwinked half of England, the clever, audacious and ultimately murderous Great Bookie Robbery, the Dismissal, the duplicity of Al Grassby the politicial in the pay of the mafia, the lies of Lawrence of Arabia that robbed the Light Horse of glory, Rupert Murdochs fight to save Max Stuart from a stitch up that had him on the steps of the scaffold. All riveting ripping yarns spanning three centuries of our history and told in Paul Taylors light engrossing style.

ISBN: 9781742481272