Chopper Read True Crime Novels

The notorious criminal and writer of ‘true crime’ novels, Chopper Read, died this week of liver cancer, aged 58.

Sydney Morning Herald news: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/chopper-read-crime-figure-turned-legend-20131009-2v85e.html

Channel 7 News on his death: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/19359945/chopper-read-to-have-melbourne-funeral/

ABC: 13 things you may not know about Chopper Read: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-09/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-mark-27chopper27-read/4991540

Andrew Denton interviews Chopper Read on Enough Rope in 2007 here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1939707.htm

Aussie True Crime: http://aussietruecrime.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/mark-brandon-chopper-read.html

His novels are crass, exaggerated tales but were popular, especially in the 1990s and Read sold in excess of 500,000 books.

Bibliography (from Wikipedia)

• Chopper: From the Inside (1991), ISBN 0-646-06543-2
• Chopper 2: Hits and Memories (1992), ISBN 0-646-10987-1
• Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends & Influence People (1993), ISBN 0-646-15444-3
• Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life (1994), ISBN 0-646-21014-9
• Chopper 5: Pulp Faction: Revenge of the Rabbit Kisser and Other Jailhouse Stories (1995), ISBN 0-646-25065-5
• Chopper 6: No Tears for a Tough Guy (1996), ISBN 0-646-29637-X
• Chopper 7: The Singing Defective (1997), ISBN 0-646-33923-0
• Chopper 8: The Sicilian Defence (1998), ISBN 0-9586071-0-9
• Chopper 9: The Final Cut (1999), ISBN 0-9586071-4-1
• Chopper 10¹⁄₂: The Popcorn Gangster (2001), ISBN 0-9579121-0-2
• Hooky the Cripple: The Grim Tale of a Hunchback Who Triumphs (2002), ISBN 1-86403-165-4
• The Adventures of Rumsley Rumsfelt (2003), ISBN 0-9579121-7-X
• Chopper 11: Last Man Standing: From Ex-Con to Icon (2007)
• Mark 'Chopper' Read: One Thing Led To Another (2010), ISBN 978-1-4050-4046-4^[20]
• Mark 'Chopper' Read: Road to Nowhere (2011), ISBN 9781742611457^[21]
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• If you are game, buy his books here: http://www.amazon.com/Chopper-Mark-Brandon-Read/dp/1904034144

Update 28 December 2014

Recently read Read's semi-autobiographical crime-faction CHOPPER 5: Don't Go Breaking My Legs (2005)

More later.