Author Matthew Condon comes to the Grand View for a literary dinner at 7pm on Tuesday, November 22.
Entry at $50 (members $45) Includes a two-course meal and a glass of wine on arrival.
In his book Little Fish are Sweet, Condon continues his Queensland underbelly expose with this astounding behind-the-scenes personal account of the five years he spent writing the ground-breaking Three Crooked Kings trilogy.
In Little Fish Are Sweet, he exposes for the first time, a sinister network of crime at the crux of the coverups. Expertly weaving fresh revelations of insidious abuse with fly-on-the-wall accounts and his own diary excerpts, Condon’s book takes the reader deep into his investigations, discovering a vast cancer of corruption that infected the highest tier of Queensland society to the lowest, and even spread its tentacles into the education system.
Condon unearths an explosive secret which has been buried for decades, its aftermath reverberating through Queensland to this day.
In 2010, Condon was first approached by Terry Lewis, the only police commissioner in Australia ever sent to jail, to write his biography. As the interviews continued, Condon tells of how he began to see holes in Lewis’s claims of innocence, and started examining the subterfuge and lies, phantoms and frame-ups.
As the years went by and his books were published, hundreds of people came forward to share their piece of the puzzle – from former premiers and federal narcotics agents to convicted murderers, prostitutes, politicians, police and whistleblowers. Faced with false leads and dead ends, legal threats and challenges, there were times when Condon was so shocked by the material he was investigating that he questioned if he wanted to continue the project.
Little Fish Are Sweet is the essential companion to the bestselling Three Crooked Kings trilogy which rewrote an aspect of Australian crime and corruption history. An epic saga, a tapestry without end, this is the devastating and polarizing story behind Queensland’s endemic, inter-generational legacy of corruption, and the honourable men and women who risked their lives to expose the truth.
Book on 3884 3000.