Underworld executioner Mark Brandon 'Chopper Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became a bizarre celebrity as his autobiography Chopper From The Inside became a bestseller. Six months later he was back in jail writing his second volume of memoirs. This is it.
 
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 adul 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 Riscon Prison, he has completed
his third volume of memoirs.
 
Mark Brandon Read is Australia's most famous standover man and one of its most prolific authors. He has written four volumes of memoirs and a crime fiction best seller. Now, from inside a maximum security jail where he is serving an indefinite sentence, comes his sixth book.
He returns to the inner-city backstreets that were his stomping ground for 25 years. Only a man who lived where the law means nothing and problems are solved with a gun, knife or iron bar could take the reader into a criminal sub-culture of violence, death and betrayal. Most can only imagine what it would be like. Read doesn't imagine it. He was there.