Description: An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before. 'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.' Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Terrifying tsunamis, corpse-robbing morgue staff, killer cops, neo-Nazis, power junkies and bumbling SWOS teams electrify this epic tale of a city with a cold vacuum for a moral core. Birmingham drills beneath the cover story of a successful multicultural metropolis and melts the boundaries between past and present to reveal a ghost city beneath the surface of concrete and glass. In Birmingham's alternative history of Sydney, the yawning chasm between the megarich and the lumpen masses is as evident in the insane wealth of the new elites as it was in the head-spinning rapacity of the NSW Rum Corps. This is a city shattered by the nexus between government, big money and the underworld, where the glittering prizes go to the strong, not the just. Combining intensive research with the p
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EAN: 9780091842031
UPC: 9780091842031
ISBN: 9780091842031
MPN: N/A
Recommended Age Range: 0-12 months
Item Length: 19.7 cm
Book Title: Leviathan: the Unauthorised Biography of Sydney
Item Height: 197mm
Item Width: 129mm
Author: John Birmingham
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: People
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publication Year: 2000
Item Weight: 428g
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
