Pamela Burton is a Canberra lawyer and writer. She draws on her professional legal knowledge and personal experience in this compelling spy thriller that has the reader wondering what is truth and what is fiction, as the story unfolds through court dramas and bold investigative journalism. She is the author of The Waterlow Killings: The Story of a Family Tragedy (MUP, 2012), winner of the Sisters in Crime 13th Davitt Award for Best True Crime; From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story (UWAP, 2010), long-listed for the 2012 National Biography Award; and Deviant, under the pen name Georgia Dale, a satirical fiction (Ginninderra Press, 2000).