True, with utmost conviction. Sheeran was definitly a character, with some decidedly cold
-blooded traits. He is very reverant of both Rosario Bufalino and James R. Hoffa. And
though at first i thought it sounded dubious, after reading the book i have also shifted
to the belief that it was indeed Sheeran who not only killed Hoffa, but Joey Gallo as
well. Not Persico, not Joe Luparelli's "suspects", nor any of the countless theories ive
read in countless mob books. As Mr. Capeci says in "Idiots Guide..", it has that
"ring of truth".

Ive scared up a new book; though as its entirely in relation to Australian O.C
(specifically this country's drug trade and the various syndicates that
have been involved in it over the years) i know its not for everybody; but
for those who might be interested, it definitly make's for a good read.

"SMACK EXPRESS:How Organised Crime Got Hooked On Drugs" by Clive Small and Tom Gilling
(a former policeman & journalist respectively) published 2009, relates the rise and
history of the modern drug trade in Australia. It covers the myriad syndicates involved
over the decades in high-level drug importation, and how they interplayed as force's &
strength's waned and fluctuated.
From the earliest coke & smack-barons of the Sydney and Melbourne brothel's, to the
Anglo-Australian East Coast Criminal Milieu.

It chronicles the Calabrian Mafia's immersion in Australia's marijuana industry
& the later Calabrian connection's to massive ecstasy and cocaine hauls.
The rise of Vietnamese gangs in the Nineties, which saw savage gangs of youth's slashing
& stabbing their way to control of the lucrative heroin rings, the drug's imported
directly from South-East Asia and of a quality that hadn't been seen before on the
East Coast of Australia. The Vietnamese "triads" made the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta
the "Heroin Capital" of Australia, and it was in that suburb that a political
assasination was carried out (the murder of an MP) by Vietnamese criminals, one of very
few in Australia's history.

There is also some interesting information on a woman identified only as "Aunty",
said to be a Colombian woman in her fifties that came to Australia during the '70's
who is also one of Australia's biggest importers of cocaine, claimed to have been
responsible for the importation of approximately a tonne of cocaine about every 18 months
for roughly two decades.

And a ton more information on many more criminals, some more obscure then others.
Australia has definitly became a major drug market in recent years, and this well
researched book offers a breakdown of the industry's Australian end.