Author(s): Keith Moor

True Crime

DoP February 2009,Australia 230x152mm / 346pp "The True Story of Trimbole, Mr Asia and the Disappearance of Donald Mackay" Before Carl Williams, there was Trimbole: race-fixer, drug boss, Mafia powerbroker, murder contractor, arms dealer. This is his true story with never-before-published material. In the 1970s Robert Trimbole and the Calabrian Mafia ruled Australia's marijuana trade from their castles in Griffith, NSW - dream homes built with drug money. The business expanded to heroin when Trimbole joined New Zealander Terry Clark and the notorious Mr Asia syndicate, and then to murder when anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay blew the whistle. "Crims in Grass Castles" is the true story of Trimbole, Mr Asia and the disappearance of Donald Mackay and is published to coincide with Channel 9's eagerly anticipated screening of 'Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities'.