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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Vortex
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Notes

  • After working with the New South Wales Police Force, Sakurovs wrote an account of his experiences and the corruption he had encountered. Unable to find a publisher, he offered the manuscript to the Mitchell Library, under the title 'Nemesis Dissected'.
    'Vortex is a dramatised version of same, with some poetic licence, but all the events described herein are based on actual experience and knowledge.' (Introduction, p. iii)

  • Epigraph:
    'When constabulary duty's to be done
    A policemen's lot is not a happy one'
    The Pirates of Penzance

    'When the enterprising burglar's not aburgling'
    Ibid.

  • Listed in Gajer Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992) with projected title: 'Car 91 Where Are You?'

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