Brothers in Arms

Father’s Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park. Among the dead, a fifteen-year-old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash. Brothers in Arms tells the extraordinary story of this murderous outbreak, from its vicious beginnings in the closed world of Sydney’s motorcycle gangs to its inevitable end in death and imprisonment. The Milpera Massacre has become a grisly part of Australian folklore, and the extraordinary range of characters explored with such skill here by two outstanding investigative journalists now comes to life in a gripping Channel Ten docudrama.

Author Biography

Lindsay Simpson is the author and co-author of six works of non-fiction, including My Husband My Killer, and The Killer Next Door, both written with Sandra Harvey. Lindsay is also the author of The Australian Geographic Guide to Tasmania and To Have and to Hold with Walter Mikac. Sandra Harvey passed away in 2008, aged 49. After co-authoring three books with Lindsay, Sandra Harvey’s first solo effort, The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch, was published in October 2000. Her last book, Done Like a Dinner (2007), was co-authored with Jennifer Cooke.