My Brother's Keeper: The Official Bra Boys Story by Sean Doherty
Inside the world's most infamous surf tribe: the Bra Boys, in their own words.
Maroubra was a tough place to grow up. Ringed by a jail, a sewerage works, a rifle range and a housing commission estate, it was where the streets of Sydney met the beach. It was a place where the local boys surfed hard and partied harder. It was also a place where trouble easily found you.
Adopted by Maroubra Beach at a young age, the four Abberton brothers, all born to different fathers and a mother in the clutches of heroin addiction, grew up at a time when the area was shadowed by drugs and gang violence. Raised largely by their grandmother, Sunny, Jai, Koby and Dakota found solace in the surf, and solidarity with their mates, the Bra Boys.
The official biography of the Abberton brothers follows their story from a turbulent upbringing on the sands of Maroubra to international surf stardom, and the fateful events of 5 August 2003, when Jai shot dead Maroubra underworld figure and childhood friend tony Hines, only to be acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.
My Brothers Keeper is raw, gritty, from the heart ... and everything you won't read about in the newspapers.
Format: Paperback | 522 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.3 x 3.8 | 732g
Publication Date: 03 Aug 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: illustrations
ISBN10: 0732285542
ISBN13: 9780732285548
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor, but obvious, damage to the cover including minor scuff marks along the edges and a large crease on the bottom-right corner of the front cover, and minor creasing on the top-left corner of the back cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.