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By Nick Bleszynski

ISBN-10: 1740512812

ISBN-13: 9781740512817

A vintage story of betrayal, injustice and vengeance from the roaring days of the Victorian gold rush.

'I'm no longer a legal. i have been pushed to this existence ... i used to be held for a month in gaol, an blameless guy. whereas i used to be away me spouse ran away with a policeman ... Then i used to be arrested for the mail trainer theft and held one other month earlier than i used to be set free on bail. while I got here domestic, i discovered my condo burned down and livestock perished of thirst, left locked in yards ... by way of Gawd, Mr Norton, it is your mob have pushed me to it and, I inform you directly, you will by no means take me alive!'

A strong story of betrayal and vengeance, you will by no means take me alive tells the tale of Ben corridor, a hero within the nice outlaw culture. Falsely imprisoned for bushranging by way of New South Wales police in 1863, Ben corridor declared, 'I may well besides have the sport because the blame'. He bailed up extra banks, stations, squatters and cities than the other bushranger and masterminded the Eugowra escort theft, netting the largest haul within the colony's brief heritage. referred to as 'the gentleman bushranger', Ben corridor was once a chivalrous champion of the folk. He advised police, 'You'll by no means take me alive!' and so they took him at his notice. yet a hundred and forty years later there's one final surprising revelation nonetheless to return . . . blending archival examine, folklore and the ability of mind's eye, Nick Bleszynski, writer of the arguable and bestselling Shoot immediately You Bastards!: the reality at the back of the killing of 'Breaker' Morant, brings Ben corridor out of the shadow of Ned Kelly and in bright aspect re-creates the existence and struggles of the landowner who turned an Australian bushranging legend.

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