Bloodstains on the Cocaine Trail

Peter Clack is an award-winning Australian journalist and author of Firestorm Trial by Fire, providing crucial revelations into the causes of a bushfire that destroyed 500 Canberra homes in 2003. This was the worst natural disaster in Canberra's history. Clack worked in newspapers in Queensland and Victoria before joining The Canberra Times in 1989, where he was later appointed as police reporter. He developed networks of trusted informants across the police, fire and emergency services and this opened the way for extensive coverage of police and crime. He realised it was impossible to cover on-going crime without access to inside information from police, and that it was only possible by hiding their identity. This sparked his intrigue in finding out more. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1995 to study police reporting at prominent newspapers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.