About the Author

Michael Duffy has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald as a reporter of crime and other urban issues. He is the author of many crime books – novels and non-fiction – including The Tower, The Simple Death and Drive By. He is currently a media officer for NSW Prisons.

Nick Hordern is a former senior journalist at the AFR who has also worked as a political staffer, reviewer and researcher at the Lowy Institute.

Reviews

‘Duffy and Hordern give the city the kicking it’s been asking for, and the city gives up all the secrets and the bodies …’ 

– John Birmingham

‘An insightful retrospective on the emergence of organised crime and corruption in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s.’

– Bob Bottom OAM, investigative journalist