We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders

past and present and to Aboriginal elders emerging. The following podcast

contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

I've been involved in some shooting incidents. I've been in a gunfight. Two of us killed the offender.

Then some other things happened. Darkness was starting to come out. I was enjoying the

opportunity too much to kill somebody. That's Keith Banks and I promise he's a really nice guy.

He's actually a bona fide hero.

He has not one but two bravery awards. In fact Keith has risked his life in the name of law and order

more times than you and I have had hot dinners. And he's even survived a stint in the Drug Squad in Queensland during one of its darkest periods of corruption.

It's all in his excellent book called Drugs, Guns and Lies and he joins us this week to talk about some of it.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.

Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers, how people become victims, and what happens next.

We'll hear shortly about his days as an undercover cop in the 70s when an

international drug smuggling syndicate known as Mr Asia was moving huge amounts of

heroin into Australia and New Zealand from Southeast Asia.

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