DCI Jack Martin has always tried to do the right thing. Can the police force say the same?
Melbourne, 1998: A spate of gangland murders. New drug supplies hitting the streets. Illegal brothels are springing up all over the city, and a massive explosion at a waste disposal plant reveals disturbing links between the city’s underbelly and respectable corporations. As Jack and his team investigate, they uncover a toxic web of illegal waste disposal, forced labour, fraud and police corruption that goes to the very top and forces Jack to reevaluate his career and take a stand.
John Tully
About the author
John Tully is an Australian historian and novelist. He lives in the far south of Tasmania but lived and worked in Melbourne’s west for 35 years. He grew up in Tasmanian hydro construction towns after emigrating with his parents as a child from the UK, and before becoming a history professor he earned his living as a rigger in construction and heavy industry. He is the author of numerous non-fiction publications including a short history of Cambodia and a social history of the world rubber industry. This is his seventh novel.
Also by John Tully
Novels
The Peregrinations of Geordie Stubbs, Rogue
On Shipstern Bluff
On an Alien Shore
Death is the Cool Night
Robbed of Every Blessing
Dark Clouds on the Mountain
Non-fiction
The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber
A Short History of Cambodia
Silvertown: the Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement