A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics.
John Shobbrook was born in Brisbane in 1948. He joined the
law-enforcement wing of the Department of Customs and Excise in
Brisbane in 1969, and in 1972 he was promoted into the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics, where he eventually became second-in-command
of the Northern Region of the Narcotics Bureau encompassing
Queensland and the Northern Territory. His final investigation for
the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was 'Operation Jungle', which
brought him to the attention of the Australian Royal Commission of
Inquiry into Drugs. The evidence that he provided to that
commission led to his dismissal from the Australian Federal
Police.
In 1994 John moved to Coonabarabran in north-western New South
Wales to commence a career in astronomy, which included working for
two years as a Planetarium Director in California. He and his wife
returned to live in Brisbane in 2013.
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