Lunatic Soup [electronic resource] : A True Story of Murder, Mayhem and Madness in Maximum Security

When Andrew Fraser's World Collapsed After 30 Years As A High Profile Criminal Lawyer He Could Hardly Have Imagined What Would Follow. Thrown Into Prison After Cocaine Use Bought Him Undone, He Was To Experience The Very Worst That The Australian Prison System Has To Offer. Placed In Maximum-security He Discovered That He Was To Serve His Sentence With Hard-core Criminals Who Had Committed Some Of Australia's Most Heinous Crimes. In This House Of Horrors Andrew Had To Tread A Careful Path In Order To Survive. Along The Way He Became A Confidant Of Sadistic Serial Murderer, Peter Dupas. This Was To Be The Key To Dupas Being Charged With A Third Murder - That Of Mersina Halvagis. Andrew Relates His Harrowing Experiences Of The Justice System, As A Prisoner, And On The Stand As A Witness In A Murder Trial. Andrew Tells What Life Is Like In A Maximum-security Prison And How He Survived Day-to-day, Living With Murderers, Psychopaths, Peodophiles And The Mentally Insane. With Little Likely-hood Of Release These Prisoners Have Little To Lose. Nothing Can Prepare You For That! Andrew Fraser's bestselling and controversial true-crime memoirs are now being adapted into an exciting new television series called Killing Time! After being convicted and disbarred, Fraser became the confidant of one of Australia's most notorious serial killers, Peter Dupas. What he learned made him the Homicide Squad's secret weapon. Angry at his treatment in jail and at his excessive sentence, the long-time defence lawyer enjoyed the irony of his situation: the authorities who destroyed his career now needed his cooperation. There was never any doubt that Andrew would give evidence, even though he knew that the defence would try to destroy his credibility, dredging up the past he so desperately wanted to forget. Fraser paints a vivid picture of the grim, terrifying and futile reality of maximum security prison life and of his time spent with the murderers, psychopaths and paedophiles. Lunatic Soup relates his harrowing experiences of the justice system, as a prisoner, and on the stand as a witness in a murder trial.