Underbelly: The Golden Mile

Author: John Silvester, Andrew Rule

Condition: Good 

Paperback

375 pages

Set against the gritty backdrop of 1989 Sydney, The Golden Mile is a gripping true crime story of corruption, power, and downfall in Australia's most notorious strip—Kings Cross. In a city where the cops were on the take and the criminals ruled the streets, the Cross was the epicentre of vice, and no one played the game harder than the Kings Cross police and the underworld figures they protected.

Among them is Kim Hollingsworth, a policeman’s daughter turned stripper and sex worker, who dreams of wearing the badge herself. But when she refuses to be intimidated and exposes the corruption around her, she becomes a major threat to the crooked empire. Rising alongside the chaos is 'Teflon John' Ibrahim, a young player making his mark under the shadow of the Bayeh brothers. Meanwhile, police like Trevor Haken and Chook Fowler treat the Cross as their personal playground—until the 1995 Wood Royal Commission storms in to bring them all to account.

Told through the lives of the charming, the corrupt, the dangerous, and the bold, The Golden Mile is a true crime saga of a glittering criminal empire’s collapse, the violent chaos that followed, and the eventual triumph of justice.

Adapted into the famous TV series of the same name in the 2010's.

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