Shadow of Shame: How the Mafia Got Away with the Murder of Donald Mackay by Bob Bottom

Donald Bruce Mackay, the Griffith anti-drugs campaigner, disappeared without trace from the carpark of the Griffith Hotel in July 1977.
Mackay had been a secret informant for police action against illicit marijuana growing in the Riverina area.
His 'disappearance' has become Australia's first and so far only political assassination.
Shadow of Shame is the shocking story of how the Mafia planned and executed his murder.
Crime journalist Bob Bottom traces the birth and growth of the mafia in Griffith, known to police as a centre for serious crime as early as the 1930s.
By the 1970s, when Mackay first became concerned about illicit drug activities in his town, those controlling organised crime and had become far more sophisticated. Bribery, corruption and pay-offs had become commonplace.
Serious questions about NSW police investigations into Australia's most notorious murder precipitated a special commission of inquiry nine years later.
Bottom also details how drug boss Bob Trimbole lived safely in Spain despite international police knowledge of his whereabouts and of the failure of Australian authorities to bring him to justice.
Here for the first time is the full, inside story of the murder of Don Mackay and of the continued harassment of his wife Barbara and family.
It will shock and outage all honest Australians.

Genres: Nonfiction - True Crime - Australia
Condition: Very good
Published: Second Reprint, May 1988 by Sun Books 
Pages: 226
ISBN: 0725105585
Weight: 280g