Leviathan: The Unauthorized Biography of Sydney - Tapa blanda

Terrifying tsunamis, corpse-robbing morgue staff, killer cops, neo-Nazis, and power junkies electrify this epic tale of a city with a cold vacuum for a moral core

Beneath the shining harbor, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Drilling beneath the cover story of a successful multicultural metropolis and melting the boundaries between past and present, John Birmingham reveals a ghost city beneath the surface of concrete and glass. In this alternative history of Sydney, the yawning chasm between the mega rich and the bulging masses is as evident in the insane wealth of the new elites as it was in the head-spinning rapacity of the NSW Rum Corps. This is a city shattered by the nexus between government, big money, and the underworld, where the glittering prizes go to the strong, not the just. Combining intensive research with the pace of a techno-thriller, John Birmingham creates a rich portrait of a city too dazzled by its own gorgeous reflection to care much for what lies at its dark, corrupted heart. Illuminated by wild flashes of black humor?violent, ghoulish and utterly compelling, Leviathan is history for the Tarantino generation.

John Birmingham is the author of Dopeland, He Died with a Falafel in his Hands, How to be a Man, Off One s Tits, The Search for Savage Henry, and The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco.