Operation jungle / by John Shobbrook.

Brisbane : The University of Queensland Press, 2021.

1st edition

199265

Australia. -- Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

Corruption -- Queensland.

Drug traffic -- Queensland.

Prologue: by Matthew Condon

1. A brilliant plan

2. Jane table mountain

3. Find the bloody heroin

4. The final search

5. Into the jungle

6. No further action

7. The investigation

8. The triumvirate

9. The Milligan tapes

10. The record of interview

11. Disbanded

12. The public hearings

13. Just two simple farmers

14. The Werin Street incident

15. Sentenced

16. The findings

17. The end.

In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages. When narcotics agent John Shobbrook took on the investigation of this audacious crime, code named 'Operation Jungle', his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. What he discovered unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that not only destroyed his own career, but led to the disbanding of the Narcotics Bureau. Operation Jungle is a gripping true story about the high cost of truth and the far-reaching tentacles of greed and corruption that cross state borders and legal jurisdictions. - Publisher's website.

9780702263248

ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm