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Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop

'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated police officers and his journey into the drug scene as an undercover operative in the 1980s. In an era of corruption, often alone, with no backup, he and other undercover cops quickly learned to blend into the drug scene, smoking dope and drinking with targets, buying drugs and having dealers arrested. Very quickly, the lines were blurred between his identity as a police officer and the life he pretended to be part of. This is a raw and confronting story of undercover cops who all became casualties of that era, some worse than others and where not everyone with a badge could be trusted.

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32320004805002 363.209 BAN
Adult Non Fiction   Thornton library . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781760877958 (pbk.)
1760877956
Classification Number 363.209 BAN
Author Banks, Keith
Title Drugs, guns & lies : my life as an undercover cop [BK]
Physical Description illustrations, portraits ;
'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated police officers and his journey into the drug scene as an undercover operative in the 1980s. In an era of corruption, often alone, with no backup, he and other undercover cops quickly learned to blend into the drug scene, smoking dope and drinking with targets, buying drugs and having dealers arrested. Very quickly, the lines were blurred between his identity as a police officer and the life he pretended to be part of. This is a raw and confronting story of undercover cops who all became casualties of that era, some worse than others and where not everyone with a badge could be trusted.
Banks, Keith
Banks, Keith
Banks, Keith
Subject Autobiographies
Police -- Queensland -- Biography
Undercover operations -- Queensland
Drug control -- Queensland
Police -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
Undercover operations -- Australia -- Queensland
Drug control -- Australia -- Queensland
Drug control
Police
Undercover operations
Queensland
Additional Author Smith, Ben
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