Four men. Eight minutes. One quiet Monday morning.
In nineteen seventy-six Melbourne, a small bookmakers' counting room followed the same routine it always had. Cash from weekend betting was stacked, counted, and prepared for deposit. No guards. No alarms. Just habit.
Then the door opened.
In less than ten minutes, the largest bookmaking robbery in Australian history was complete. No shots fired. No chaos. Just precision.
But the perfect job didn’t end when the robbers walked out. As the money disappeared, pressure built, alliances fractured, and violence followed. Within days, the mastermind, Ray “Chuck” Bennett, was dead.
Eight Minutes on a Monday is the gripping true story of a robbery executed with surgical calm — and the violent unraveling that followed.
