Operation Jungle

John Shobbrook

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780702265020

A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. 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. 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.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Map of Far North Queensland
• Introduction by Matthew Condon
• Prologue: The Arrest
• Chapter 1: A Brilliant Plan
• Chapter 2: Jane Table Mountain
• Chapter 3: Find the Bloody Heroin
• Chapter 4: The Final Search
• Chapter 5: Into the Jungle
• Chapter 6: No Further Action
• Chapter 7: The Investigation
• Chapter 8: The Triumvirate
• Chapter 9: The Milligan Tapes
• Chapter 10: The Record of Interview
• Chapter 11: Disbanded
• Chapter 12: The Public Hearings
• Chapter 13: Just Two Simple Farmers
• Chapter 14: The Werin Street Incident
• Chapter 15: Sentenced
• Chapter 16: The Findings
• Chapter 17: The End
• Afterword by Quentin Dempster
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgements
• Where Are They Now?
• Further Reading
• Imprint Page