Paperback: And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
One body, seventy suspects, the worst crime boss you have never heard of and a strike force that would not give up.
When Terry Falconer's dismembered body turned up in the Hastings River in 2001, detective Gary Jubelin was asked to lead the investigation. Falconer had been a violent criminal, a police informer and possibly a murderer. The suspect list quickly grew up to 70 of the state's most hardened criminals, all of whom wanted him dead.
After a year Jubelin had a name. Anthony Perish believed Falconer had carried out a contract killing on his grandparents back in 1993. Perish was almost unknown to police, but as Jubelin and his team dug deeper, they discovered he was one of Australia's most successful drug manufacturers, with strong links to the Rebels bikie gang and a reputation for violence and professionalism. Only the personal nature of his revenge murder of Falconer had brought him out of the shadows.
It took a decade to bring Anthony Perish and his brother Andrew to justice. It is an amazing story of what police call serious 'badness', involving professional killers, protected witnesses, electronic surveillance, underground drug labs, secret hearings conducted by the New South Wales Crime Commission and over 180 000 recorded phone conversations.
Author Michael Duffy was given almost unprecedented access to police to write the story of what has been described as one of Australia's most difficult murder investigations - and its biggest. The result is a chilling and forensic account of a secret Australian criminal empire that thrived in darkness for over twenty years, and a meticulous and enthralling chronicle of an extraordinary police investigation.
Bad (this edition: 2014) gives the true account of the events portrayed in the series Underbelly: Badness but it is not the book of the series and has not been approved or endorsed by the producers or writers of Underbelly.
About the author: Michael Duffy is a former court and crime reporter for several newspapers in Sydney Australia whose work led to the true crime books Call Me Cruel (2013) and Bad (2012), the story behind the television series Underbelly: Badness.
He now writes crime novels, the first two being The Tower (2009) and The Simple Death (2011). Drawing on his work as a journalist and radio presenter, his novels embrace contemporary themes such as globalisation and voluntary euthanasia.
Drive By - about the war on drugs - was published in 2013. It introduced part-Aboriginal detective Bec Ralston.
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