From the Inside: Chopper 1 (25 page)

Mark ‘Chopper’ Read is one of Australia’s most controversial public figures. He is an Australian ex-convict, author and celebrity. He is also a recording and performance artist.

Also by Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read

Hits and Memories: Chopper 2

How to Shoot Friends and Influence People: Chopper 3

For the Term of His Unnatural Life: Chopper 4

Pulp Faction: Chopper 5

No Tears for a Tough Guy: Chopper 6

The Singing Defective: Chopper 7

The Sicilian Defence: Chopper 8

The Final Cut: Chopper 9

The Popcorn Gangster: Chopper 10.5

Last Man Standing: Chopper 11

The Editors

In early 1991 investigative journalist John Silvester interviewed Mark Brandon Read in Pentridge Prison’s top security H Division for a series of reports in the
Herald-Sun.
Over the next eight months Read wrote Silvester more than 300 letters which are the basis of this book.

Silvester has been a Melbourne-based crime reporter since 1978. In 1990 he worked for the
Sunday Times
Insight team in London. He is co-author of
Inside Victoria: A Chronicle of Scandal
with Bob Bottom.

Andrew Rule is a former chief police reporter for
The Age,
feature writer for
The Herald
and television documentary producer. He is currently a sub-editor with the
Herald-Sun,
author and publisher. His previous works include
Cuckoo,
the best-selling factual account of the ‘Mr Stinky’ murder investigation.

First published by Floradale Productions in 1991
This edition published in 2012 by Momentum

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Copyright © Mark Read 1991
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From the Inside: Chopper 1

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