Carnage. Mark Dapin. 2025.

WHAT IS THE CHARGE?

Jack Karlson claimed to be simply eating a succulent Chinese meal before he was arrested outside a Brisbane restaurant in 1991. But what was the larrikin outlaw really doing in the YouTube video loved by millions of people?

When crime writer Mark Dapin interviewed the man behind the meme, he discovered a dark and complex past. It turned out that Karlson had loomed in the background of many notorious incidents in late-twentieth century Australian crime, and his story helped Dapin shed new light on two sets of serial murders. This book is a window into the underworld, in all its gory glory - a portrait of carnage.