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Index
Cover
About this Book
Contents
Chopper 1: From the Inside
About From the Inside: Chopper 1
Contents
FOREWORD
Chapter 1: Digging my own grave
Chapter 2: From orphanage to Pentridge
Chapter 3: Family and friends
Chapter 4: Dave the Jew
Chapter 5: Cowboy Johnny
Chapter 6: Mad Charlie
Chapter 7: Ita Buttrose, bloodshed and me
Chapter 8: Life on the inside
Chapter 9: The overcoat war
Chapter 10: Betrayed
Chapter 11: Toecutting
Chapter 12: Sammy’s fatal mistake
Chapter 13: God bless juries
Chapter 14: The plastic Godfathers
Chapter 15: The Walsh Street cowards
Chapter 16: The Russell Street bomber
Chapter 17: The Klan and other crazies
Chapter 18: A headache for Alex
Chapter 19: Julian beats the death penalty
Chapter 20: Mad Dog Cox
Chapter 21: Russian Roulette with rice-eaters
Chapter 22: Tricks of the trade
Chapter 23: Who’s who in the zoo
Chapter 24: An unfortunate life
The Editors
Chopper 2: Hits and Memories
About Hits and Memories: Chopper 2
THE CHOPPER
Contents
The story so far
Chapter 1: One Door Shuts, Another Opens
Chapter 2: Life in the Little Apple (or what I did in the holidays)
Chapter 3: The Scorpion and the Bullfrog
Chapter 4: Behind bars in Van Demons’ Land
Chapter 5: The meaning of life, with remissions for good behavior
Chapter 6: If she leaves me, can I come too?
Chapter 7: The battle in the big court
Chapter 8: Why Six-Toes gave up dancing
Chapter 9: A hitchhiker’s guide to the gallows
Chapter 10: Sword swallowers and double agents
Chapter 11: The Curse of the Bookie Robbery (or why I never eat dim sims)
Chapter 12: Bobby Barron and the bad fairies
Chapter 13: Rentakill takes redundancy
Chapter 14: White slavers, skinheads and pinheads
Chapter 15: Psychology of fear (or why honest men give me the creeps)
Chapter 16: Mad Micky (tanks for the memories)
Chapter 17: The Right stuff
Chapter 18: Tone-deaf kidnapper hits wrong note
Chapter 19: The Prince of Pain (or why I hate dentists)
Chapter 20: The Beach Ball didn’t do it
Chapter 21: Hopalong Tom, the snake with one leg
Chapter 22: Renee, a hard act to copy
Chapter 23: Who’s who in blue
Chapter 24: Who’s Who in the Zoo II
Chapter 25: Rematch: the court room diaries
THE END
The Editors
Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends and Influence People
About How to Shoot Friends and Influence People: Chopper 3
Contents
The opera ain’t over
CHAPTER 1: The story of Tanya and Eddy
CHAPTER 2: It’s a dog-eat-dog world
CHAPTER 3: The last goodbye
CHAPTER 4: A prison guide to breakfast etiquette
CHAPTER 5: Life in the Pink Palace
CHAPTER 6: Ladies and not-so-gentlemen
CHAPTER 7: Puppy love
CHAPTER 8: Pruning with Dave
CHAPTER 9: Klan fan mail
CHAPTER 10: Jailhouse blues
CHAPTER 11: Why God invented razor blades
CHAPTER 12: Jackals and hyenas
CHAPTER 13: Shannon got dead, the Texan got life
CHAPTER 14: The thoughts of chairman Mark
CHAPTER 15: Mindless filth (dirty girls I have known)
CHAPTER 16: Murder, mayhem and madmen
CHAPTER 17: The couch potatoes
CHAPTER 18: The secret Read files
CHAPTER 19: A slow learner never forgets
CHAPTER 20: Rats on stilts rort runs off rails
CHAPTER 21: The good, the bad, and the dead set unlucky
CHAPTER 22: Jesus Menzies comes to jail
CHAPTER 23: The shooting of Sidney
The last word?
The Editors
Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life
About For the Term of His Unnatural Life: Chopper 4
Dedication
The Editors
Contents
The story so far …
Preface
CHAPTER 1: The Semi-mental bloke
CHAPTER 2: How to blue without bloodshed
CHAPTER 3: Outdoor sports inside
CHAPTER 4: Pros and cons and other characters
CHAPTER 5: Dave the Jew on the couch
CHAPTER 6: My mates wouldn’t hurt anyone …
CHAPTER 7: Gluttony and the gourmet crim
CHAPTER 8: No weddings, parties, anything
CHAPTER 9: Sex, lies and visitors
CHAPTER 10: Watch out for light-fingered cops
CHAPTER 11: Jail barbers ain’t what they used to be
CHAPTER 12: Sex and the single psychopath
CHAPTER 13: Hodgman and the letter writing campaign
CHAPTER 14: Bob Hawke, royalty and me
CHAPTER 15: Gary died trying to bluff aces with a joker
CHAPTER 16: Screwing screws
CHAPTER 17: The passing of H Division
CHAPTER 18: Christopher Dale Flannery
CHAPTER 19: The ones that got away … thank God
CHAPTER 20: A cell with a view
CHAPTER 21: Black humor, white deaths in custody
CHAPTER 22: Why I’m not a father
CHAPTER 23: How the ‘Leopard’ got spotted
CHAPTER 24: Oh well, there goes the women’s market
CHAPTER 25: Musings on the art of gunslinging
CHAPTER 26: Why fist fights don’t rate
CHAPTER 27: Police shootings
CHAPTER 28: Frankie gets caught speeding and other tales
CHAPTER 29: How the Angels almost rolled the Ball
CHAPTER 30: Fickle friendships
CHAPTER 31: The gay debate
CHAPTER 32: Chook killing and child psychology
CHAPTER 33: Dear Chopper … jail mail tales
CHAPTER 34: The fight to write
Chopper 5: Pulp Faction
About Pulp Faction: Chopper 5
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
The Revenge Of The Rabbit Kisser
Goodbye Chicka Charlie
Goodbye Chicka Charlie
Message In A Bottle
The Shoe Shop Men
The Hand Man
Chopper 6: No Tears for a Tough Guy
About No Tears for a Tough Guy: Chopper 6
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: No tears for a tough guy
Chapter 2: In a Pickle
Chapter 3: Taking Care of Business
Chapter 4: A Sweet Voice Calling
Chapter 5: Great Day for a Shoot ’em Up
Chapter 6: A Hot Date
Chopper 7: The Singing Defective
About The Singing Defective: Chopper 7
Contents
Dedication
The QC
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The Caballero Horsemen
Chopper 8: The Sicilian Defence
About The Sicilian Defence: Chopper 8
Contents
Chapter 1: Turkey Hunt
Chapter 2: When in Rome
Chapter 3: Little Wolf in London
Chapter 4: Russian Roulette
Chapter 5: The Pain in Spain
Chapter 6: Weddings, Shootings, Anything
Chapter 7: Bye Bye American Lie
Chapter 8: A Bad Jew With A .22
Chapter 9: Jayne Mansfield and the Mafia Don
Chapter 10: The Sleeping Dog
Chapter 11: The Wink
Chapter 12: Bronco Billy
Chapter 13: South of the Border
Chapter 14: Right Whack
Chapter 15: The Apple Cucumber
Chopper 9: The Final Cut
About The Final Cut: Chopper 9
Contents
Chapter 1: On The Lam In Sheep Country
Chapter 2: The Hard Facts
Chapter 3: Alphonse: From Headlines To Headstones
Chapter 4: Not The Avon Lady
Chapter 5: How Loose Lips Started A War
Chapter 6: A Dead Man Calling
Chapter 7: Dancing With Death
Chapter 8: Tassie Chainsaw Massacre
Chapter 9: Haunting The Old Haunts
Chapter 10: Psychics for Psychos
Chapter 11: The Pregnant Pause
Chapter 12: Death is A Funny Business
Chapter 13: The Pen is Mightier than the Sawn-off
Chapter 14: The Sewer I Left
Chapter 15: A Role Model for Drunks
Chapter 16: Them Old Pub Blues
Chapter 17: The Dead are Many
Chapter 18: Father Knows Best
Chapter 19: Sucked tn by the Media
Biography: The Supporting Cast
Chopper 10.5: The Popcorn Gangster
About The Popcorn Gangster: Chopper 10.5
Contents
Book One: Psychology of Fear
CHAPTER 1: Blood money
CHAPTER 2: Of mice and men (or rats and reporters)
CHAPTER 3: Myths and legends
CHAPTER 4: Mind games
CHAPTER 5: Slaughter in the pen
CHAPTER 6: Wave goodbye, surfers
CHAPTER 7: Fame at last
CHAPTER 8: The brain drain
CHAPTER 9: Sandy
CHAPTER 10: Shark bait
CHAPTER 11: Johnny rules – not
CHAPTER 12: Epilogue
The Calabrian Contract: A very short story
Author’s note
Dedication
CHAPTER 1: The dreams of young men
CHAPTER 2: Family business
CHAPTER 3: The hammer drops
CHAPTER 4: The popcorn gangster
Chopper 11: Last Man Standing
About Last Man Standing: Chopper 11
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
CHAPTER 1: Outliving Enemies
CHAPTER 2: Underworld Killings
CHAPTER 3: Ganglands
CHAPTER 4: Chopper on …
the art of violence and the life of crime
women and the battle of the sexes
being an author
writing
manners and dining
prison
friends and enemies
drug dealers
everything else
CHAPTER 5: Read on the Record
CHAPTER 6: Chopper’s Rules of Survival
About the Author
Also by Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read
Copyright
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