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Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a succulent Chinese meal But when Mark Dapin investigated it emerged that this mans story went to the heart of the Australian underworldA true crime cult classic in the making

Whether you know it as the succulent Chinese meal video or democracy manifest chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991 The Guardian called it perhaps the preeminent Australian meme of the last 10 years

When Karlson called crime writer Mark Dapin out of the blue though Dapin hadnt heard of him But there was enough that intrigued him about this theatrical outlaw to continue the conversation Over the following months emerged a dark and complex past It turned out that Karlson had been in the background of many notorious incidents in latetwentieth century Australian crime from collaborating with infamous prisonplaywright Jim McNeil to befriending hitman Christopher Dale Flannery Mr RentaKill

But most shockingly of all Karlsons life story led Dapin to shed new light on a number of unsolved murders by two serial killers

The result is an extraordinary deeply revealing portrait of Australian crime from the 60s to the 2010s a portrait of carnage

Mark Dapin could never be accused of glorifying crime but he is guilty as sin for understanding it Inhabited by flawed humans filled with violence humour tears and dreams Carnage is a classic Australian crime storyGary Jubelin author of I Catch Killers

True crime at its grim and richly entertaining best and lets face it its truestRobert Drewe author of The Shark Net

If ever there was a book crammed with colourful villains who are mad bad and dangerous to know its definitely Mark Dapins extraordinary book CarnageKate McClymont author of He Who Must Be Obeid

Carnage is a window into Australian mayhem killingly funny and beautifully told Dapin finds pathos in a twisted worldMatthew Spencer author of Black River

Carnage begins by probing what seems a minor curiosity an internet meme centred on a colourful character then takes a turn into the lives of traumatised youths hurled without care or thought into brutalising reformatories From there they graduate to rorts robberies violence Bleak lives interspersed with occasional forays into squaresville spouses kids even jobs and attempts at betterment via theatre and literature A unique deeply felt take on the Australian underworldPeter Doyle author of Crooks Like Us

The moment I start reading anything by Mark Dapin Im captivated intrigued and engaged for the entire journey There is no finer writer documenting the history and characters of Australian criminalityStuart Coupe