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John Shobbrook

John Shobbrook was born in Brisbane in 1948. He joined the law-enforcement wing of the Department of Customs and Excise in Brisbane in 1969, and in 1972 he was promoted into the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. His final investigation for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was ‘Operation Jungle’, which brought him to the attention of the Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs. The evidence that he provided to that commission led to his dismissal from the Australian Federal Police.

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Title:

Operation Jungle

Written by:

John Shobbrook 

Read by:

Ant Neate; Matthew Condon; Quentin Dempster 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

4 

Duration:

5 hours 10 minutes 

Published:

August 03 2021 

Available Date:

August 03 2021 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781867550372 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Autobiography; True Crime 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

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Operation Jungle is a gripping true story about the high cost of truth and the far-reaching tentacles of greed and corruption that cross state borders and legal jurisdictions.

In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages. When narcotics agent John Shobbrook took on the investigation of this audacious crime, codenamed 'Operation Jungle', his career was on the rise within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. What he discovered unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that not only destroyed his own career, but led to the disbanding of the Narcotics Bureau.

'This is a story probably without precedent in the history of Australian law enforcement.'
Matthew Condon, author of The Motorcycle Cafe