How to Shoot Friends and Influence People

Chopper (John Blake) #3

by Mark Brandon Read

A loner since his strict Seventh Day Adventist childhood, Mark Brandon Read grew into a streetfighter, standover man, gunman and underworld executioner. Although feared throughout the Australian crime world, Read admits to being a criminal "failure" because he has spent most of his adult life in jail. But he has become a notorious celebrity as his crime memoirs have topped bestseller lists. Now self-styled "writer in residence" at Tasmania's Risdon Prison, he has completed his third volume of memoirs. This is it.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Crime, Autobiography

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is an Australian ex-criminal who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels.
--from wikipedia

Reviews

[Steve Austin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chop Chop is a great storyteller and this book is no exception. He advises most strongly that he had nothing to do with Sid Collins drawing his last breath, yet on his last public TV interview he advised he was the culprit, if true takes some gloss off from the reading.

[Rohan Stewart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gets creepy and weird in parts. Compared to Chopper, I've been living in a box my whole life.

[Beau Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another disturbing voyage to an alien world. A world I'm happy to read about, but have no wish to be a part of.

[Alex Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

enjoyed it quite a bit funny a quite sad it some cases