The smack track / Ian McPhedran.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2017Description: pages. 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781460752920
- 1460752929
- Australia. Royal Australian Navy
- Sea-power -- Australia -- 21st century
- Drug traffic -- Persian Gulf -- Prevention
- Drug traffic -- Horn of Africa -- Prevention
- Pirates -- Persian Gulf
- Pirates -- Horn of Africa
- Illegal arms transfers -- Persian Gulf
- Arms control -- Australia
- Arms control -- Horn of Africa
- Naval strategy -- Australia -- 21st century
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction (NEST) | Non-Fiction | 359.009 MCP | Available | T00631569 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf.
From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug smugglers in the seas of the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa along the infamous route known as the 'smack track'.
For more than twenty years, Australian sailors have been risking their lives, conducting often fraught and dangerous operations in war and in the battle against terrorism. From braving rough seas to boarding rickety dhows or clambering up the sheer steel sides of modern day supertankers looking for contraband, The Smack Track tells a thrilling, eye-witness story of grit, courage, ingenuity and sacrifice.
From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf. From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug smugglers in the seas of the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa along the infamous route known as the 'smack track'. For more than twenty years, Australian sailors have been risking their lives, conducting often fraught and dangerous operations in war and in the battle against terrorism. From braving rough seas to boarding rickety dhows or clambering up the sheer steel sides of modern day supertankers looking for contraband, The Smack Track tells a thrilling, eye-witness story of grit, courage, ingenuity and sacrifice.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Glossary (p. ix)
- Preface (p. 1)
- Prologue (p. 3)
- The mission
- 1 Leaving Dar es Salaam (p. 9)
- 2 Cauldron of conflict (p. 23)
- 3 At the captain's table (p. 35)
- 4 A close call (p. 49)
- 5 Boardos (p. 62)
- Piracy
- 6 Skulls and crossbones (p. 73)
- 7 Under the not-so-Jolly Roger (p. 86)
- Hash highway to smack track
- 8 Seizing hash and saving lives (p. 97)
- 9 Not just coffee (p. 106)
- 10 The River Phoenix (p. 114)
- 11 Eye on the prize (p. 126)
- Making it work
- 12 Tonnes of guns (p. 143)
- 13 Dunnies, drains and dinners (p. 156)
- 14 Beating the blues (p. 171)
- 15 Birdies (p. 184)
- The smack track
- 16 Truckies of the ocean (p. 199)
- 17 Jackpot (p. 211)
- 18 More smack on the track (p. 227)
- The end game
- 19 Catch and release (p. 243)
- 20 Chasing the Golden Crescent (p. 258)
- 21 Bringing them home (p. 274)
- Acknowledgements (p. 287)
- Appendix: RAN Middle East deployments 1990-2017 (p. 289)