Writer, music promoter and rock ‘n’ roll brain Stuart Coupe, who founded the 1990s crime fiction magazine Mean Streets, is no stranger to accounts of dirty deeds. In this case, they are not made up, and the truth, as they say, can be wilder. Also, thankfully, the dead can’t sue. The subject of Coupe’s latest book is Abe Saffron, aka “Mr Sin”, criminal, nightclub owner and the late and undisputed first king of Kings Cross, once Australia’s epicentre of sex, drugs, gangsters and corrupt cops. If the names Bourbon and Beefsteak and Les Girls ring a bell, then this book will appeal.
