"11 MINUTES: A Crime Novel of Melbourne’s 1976 Bookie Robbery"

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Melbourne, 1976 - a gang of masked gunmen storm the Victoria Club and vanish with what would now be worth $80 million. No one is convicted. The money is never recovered. Within a decade, every man is dead. 11 Minutes is a gritty Australian noir crime novel inspired by the real-life Great Bookie Robbery 1976 - a Melbourne crime fiction classic in the making. Told with sharp, fast prose and insider authenticity, it reveals the rise and fall of the crew who pulled off Australia’s greatest heist gone wrong thriller. From the 1970s Melbourne underworld to the shadowed world of crooked cops and violent unions, the story dives into the Painters and Dockers, the organized crime Australia tried to forget. It’s a world of loyalty, betrayal, and the cost of silence - where power is fleeting, and no one walks away clean. Through the eyes of Ian Carroll’s younger brother, author Gregory M Carroll exposes the true price of ambition in the Australian underworld. He knew these men. He buried one of them. For fans of George V. Higgins, Don Winslow, and Peter Temple, this is historical Australian crime fiction at its rawest - part Australian true crime, part moral reckoning.