Australian Gamble : Organized Crime Down Under

Name: Australian Gamble
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9781538177082
Price: 5750 KES
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ISBN: 9781538177082

by Paul Bleakley

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1538177080

ISBN-13 9781538177082

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 15th, 2023

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 476 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 15.80 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa True crime True crime Australasian & Pacific history Organized crime Australasian and Pacific history

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The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn’s, the Bally gambling organization managing director, role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.

The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn’s role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history. It is a story that begins overseas, with the origins of the Bally poker machine company — a scandal-prone business with a name that was fated to be forever linked with Rooklyn’s. From humble origins in Al Capone’s Chicago, Bally rode the amusement game wave to become one of the biggest players in the gaming industry worldwide … a status that made it an attractive target for takeover by America’s Italian Mafia. Run out of Cuba on the heels of Castro’s communist revolution, ‘The Families’ were looking for new opportunities to expand their gaming ambitions, both in the desert mecca Las Vegas and (more quietly) through clandestinely sinking their hooks into a financially struggling Bally.

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