Mr. JASPER: Definitely, and I ended up sort of writing about, you know, the underworld and the struggles of young men, so I was choosing, I guess, between the dark and white to be metaphorical because it was those young men, perhaps even more so than myself, who were going through the most difficult times around me.

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Newton was hands on about it, too, often himself travelling to seedy underworld bars to track down information.

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In recent years, Melbourne has been racked by a series of murders between rival underworld gangs leaving, at the last count, about 30 corpses.

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