Mad Charlie

Melbourne, 1974. A seventeen year old called Charlie Hegyalji hands out parts from The Godfather to the men in his car. One of them is Mark 'Chopper' Read. This is the story of the two of them: the parlour war, Pentridge, the Overcoat Gang, and the night Charlie came home to his own front gate.

1. Mad Charlie : The Untold Story of the Godfather of Melbourne’s Underworld · In 1975, an eighteen stone toe cutter called Mark Brandon Read and his mentor, a Hungarian migrant nicknamed Mad Charlie, allegedly murdered a child killer in Pentridge Prison, and made it look like he had hanged himself