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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Heavy Allies
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'Australia didn't have a drug problem until the Nugan Hand merchant bank with its shadowy tentacles to the CIA opened in Sydney in the 1970s, financing heroin trafficking through money laundering on a mammoth scale. Its intricate chessboard of crime had two grandmasters: Michael Hand, a mysterious former Green Beret, and Bernie Houghton, a gregarious wheeler-dealer who was also a product of the US secret intelligence network.

'In his ... novel, Heavy Allies, award-winning Australian author Wayne Grogan worms inside Nugan Hand to tell American readers the almost unknown story of how the United States inflicted a heroin plague on its closest ally, with ruthless military precision.' (Provided by the publisher)

Notes

  • Launched in Sydney by Bob Carr in September 2008.
  • Dedication: For Elisha, Kura and Jack.
  • Grogan applies "a fictional brush inside a frame of factual material". - back cover
  • Epigraph: But you and I we've been through that and this is not our fate./ So let us stop talking falsely now. The hour is getting late. - Bob Dylan ('All Along the Watchtower')
  • Epigraph: Mr Hand is the biggest thing in heroin ever seen in this country. - A witness at the Royal Commission into the activities of the Nugan Hand Bank

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Rose Bay, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Brandl and Schlesinger , 2008 .
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      Extent: 295p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: September 2008.
      ISBN: 9781876040994 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

[Review] Heavy Allies Tim Howard , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 306 2008; (p. 51)
— Review of Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Underbelly of the '70s Kate Holden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 November 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Dodgy Days When Sydney Really Was Sin City Sue Turnbull , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 October 2008; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Crooked Camilla Nelson , 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Sydney's Criminal Underbelly Finds Gripping Exposure in Space and Time Ken Haley , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2008; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Crooked Camilla Nelson , 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including brief reports on the win by Mark Tredinnick in the inaugural Blake Poetry Prize, the announcement by John Green that he plans to establish Pantera Press (to publish mass market fiction) and the launch of Wayne Grogan's third novel, Heavy Allies.
Sydney's Criminal Underbelly Finds Gripping Exposure in Space and Time Ken Haley , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2008; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Crooked Camilla Nelson , 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Dodgy Days When Sydney Really Was Sin City Sue Turnbull , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 October 2008; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Crooked Camilla Nelson , 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Underbelly of the '70s Kate Holden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 November 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Heavy Allies Tim Howard , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 306 2008; (p. 51)
— Review of Heavy Allies Wayne Grogan , 2008 single work novel
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 May 2008; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including including a preview of forthcoming novels by Lenny Bartulin and Wayne Grogan.
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including brief reports on the win by Mark Tredinnick in the inaugural Blake Poetry Prize, the announcement by John Green that he plans to establish Pantera Press (to publish mass market fiction) and the launch of Wayne Grogan's third novel, Heavy Allies.
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Last amended 22 Oct 2014 15:35:25
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Washington DC,
    c
    United States of America (USA),
    c
    Americas,
  • c
    Vietnam,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
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