Dark Dark Policing

Dark Dark Policing compels the reader's concentration as it documents a nation polarised between the working poor and the uber rich at a time when ultranationalist groups are on the rise.

Written with hallucinatory intensity by one of Australia's most experienced journalists, author John Stapleton, it uses novelistic techniques to depict Australia during the early millennial period, a pivotal point in its history.

Dark Dark Policing is seen through the eyes of a crumpled old newspaper report...