Australian Desperadoes: The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California

Terry Smyth

The Coves - San Francisco's first organised-crime gang - were Australians- men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robber...