MAD MAX follows the shocking 1985 police shootings by burglar and gun enthusiast Pavel Marinof, aka ‘Mad’ Max Clark. When a routine search of Clark’s vehicle by Victorian police in June 1985 uncovered tools of the burglary trade, Clark attacked the officers and went on the run. During the subsequent chase, Clark burst through a police barricade in an attempt to run one officer down and shot at five others, wounding four and permanently paralysing another. Clark managed to escape the chase and subsequent manhunts of 1985, but was apprehended in February 1986 after a tip-off led police to a hiding place in Wallan, 45km north of Melbourne. Deciding to fight back, Clark again shot at Detectives Rod McDonald and John Kapetanovski, before being fatally shot.
When Brendan Berichon opened fire on two policemen in broad daylight in a Melbourne street he triggered an extraordinary chain of events that involved a kidnap, a massive man hunt across three States and the eventual arrest of Australia's Most Wanted man - Brendan Abbott.
The chilling blow-by-blow true account of the ambush and murder of Constable Steven Tynan and Probationary Constable Damian Eyre, including interviews with the victim's families, emergency service workers, witnesses at the scene and the police officers who manned the subsequent investigation.