Book description
Money couldn t buy a better police force . . .Corruption,
prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims.
It's all in a day's work. Set against the backdrop of the Askin
government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick
Reilly, Lennie McPherson and Johnny Warren, Crooked reveals the dark
underbelly of Sydney during the late 1960s. Gus Finlay is a fresh-faced
young detective who is transferred to the Criminal Investigation Branch
after his partner has been exposed as running crooked. Sydney is a
savage place. A series of violent killings escalate with a spectacular
execution-style murder. When a black book with names of prominent
politicians and members of the police force is discovered among the dead
man's things, the case is blown wide open, and someone will have to pay
. . . Camilla Nelson has worked as a writer, journalist and academic.
Her first novel, Perverse Acts, was published in 1999 and she was named
one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist of the
Year. Camilla worked on the staff of a minister in the NSW State
Government before turning to journalism. As a freelance journalist, her
work has been published in newspapers and magazines, including
Australian Women's Forum and the Australian. She worked at the Sydney
Morning Herald online for three years. Camilla has an MA in History and
a Doctorate of Creative Arts. She currently lectures in Writing and
Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
