The Double Life of an Irish-Born Bushranger

Journalist Garry Linnell traces the true story of George Scott, an Irish-born man of privilege who reinvented himself as the notorious bushranger Captain Moonlite in colonial Australia. Drawing on letters Scott wrote from prison, the book follows his bank robberies and jailbreaks, his relationship with fellow prisoner James Nesbitt, and the standoff that finally brought him undone.

Linnell, a Walkley Award-winning writer, brings a journalist's eye for detail to this dramatic chapter of bushranger history, making it a good fit for readers of Australian colonial history and true crime alike.

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