Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read is Australia’s most famous standover man and one of its most prolific authors. He has written eleven volumes of memoirs and a crime fiction bestseller. Now, from inside a maximum security jail where he is serving an indefinite sentence, comes his sixth book.

He returns to the inner-city backstreets that were his stomping ground for twenty-five years. Only a man who lived where the law means nothing and problems are solved with a gun, knife or iron bar could take the reader into a criminal sub-culture of violence, death and betrayal. Most can only imagine what it would be like. Read doesn’t imagine it. He was there.