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M. Tatlow M. Tatlow i(A150920 works by) (a.k.a. Mike Tatlow; Michael Tatlow)
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1 y separately published work icon Pike's Pyramid M. Tatlow , Docklands : JoJo Publishing , 2014 20666933 2014 single work novel crime thriller

'Blarney and Alex Pike, husband and wife network marketers for American-based Argo, become embroiled in a menacing predicament when their American friend and fellow networker Jack Sussoms is murdered in the Czech Republic. The situation quickly escalates into a melting pot of murder, graft, corruption and terrorism, the scale of which Blarney and Alex have only just begun to uncover... Can Blarney and his skilful friends save the day? The first novel in a series of four gripping crime thrillers that feature heroic crime buster and family man, Blarney Pike, and his talented companions in the remote but extraordinary town of Stanley, Tasmania.'

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1 y separately published work icon Bloodhouse Darcy Dugan , M. Tatlow , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2012 Z1906110 2012 single work biography ′Mike, a lot, sometimes rot, has been written about me. Please hold this, my real story, to edit and present to a new generation, after I and the crooks we′ve exposed have turned to dust.′ Darcy Dugan

Written in secret during his long years in jail and smuggled out to keep it safe from his enemies until now, Bloodhouse is Darcy Dugan′s brutally honest and gripping story of his extraordinary life and times.

During Dugan′s criminal career, he pulled off countless hold-ups but it was his daring escapes that captured the public′s imagination and earned him the monicker of ′Houdini of the prison system′.

One of his many famous escapes occurred less than half an hour after arriving at Long Bay, another after sawing a hole in a moving prison tram, but even Dugan couldn′t crack Grafton Jail, the infamous ′Bloodhouse′, where he spent 11 torturous years.

In all, Dugan spent 44 years in prison. His firsthand experience of brutality and corruption led him to become an outspoken campaigner for reform and the archenemy of Sydney′s criminal underworld, corrupt police and an unjust prison system.

Threatened with execution if revelations in his book became public, Dugan asked Mike Tatlow to suppress this story until both he and his enemies had turned to dust, and write the concluding chapters. The result is a must-read account of a true Australian original.' (Publisher's blurb)
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