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  1. Book review: John Shobbrook's Operation Jungle details how he exposed a

    John Shobbrook. Nov 13, 2021 - 5.00am. Forty-one years ago, in October 1980, I was discharged from the Australian Federal Police. I had only served for four months with the AFP. Before that I ...

  2. Operation Jungle by John Shobbrook

    61 ratings3 reviews. 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. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountaintop ...

  3. Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'Operation Jungle' by John Shobbrook

    True crime books sell. Few of them, however, are as well written as this book. John Shobbrook's Operation Jungle is one of the most entertaining and gripping memoirs of law enforcement in Queensland that has been published by the University of Queensland Press. It is set during Joh Bjelke-Petersen's controversial premiership (1968-87).

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    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, codenamed 'Operation Jungle,' his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

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    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. ... Reviews ' ... John's first book, Operation Jungle (2021) was longlisted for the 2022 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award.

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    Operation Jungle. John Shobbrook. Univ. of Queensland Press, Aug 3, 2021 - True Crime - 232 pages. A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. 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.

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    Kindle Edition. A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. 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 ...

  8. Operation Jungle by John Shobbrook

    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. ISBN: 9780702263248 ISBN-10: 0702263249 Audience: General Format: Paperback Language: English Number Of Pages: 224 Published: 3rd August 2021

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    This is a story probably without precedent in the history of Australian law enforcement. And it all began late in the summer of 1978-79, when John Shobbrook and his fellow investigators headed north to Cairns ... That was when Shobbrook entered a very, very dangerous jungle.Matthew Condon, author of Three Crooked Kings In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates ...

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    Operation Jungle. REVIEW BY Ian Banks September 23, 2021, 10:03 am. Although Operation Jungle may well read like a bit of fantasy it is the absolute truth; a truth that is without precedent in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics about a drug bust in the far reaches of far North Queensland that was to destroy John Shobbrook's career but also see ...

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    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. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountaintop airdrop. In a story ...

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    A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. 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 i...

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    Operation Jungle. Paperback - 3 August 2021. A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. 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 ...

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