Undercurrent: The Hidden Cost of Going Undercover

The city pulled him in. The lie pulled him under.

Undercurrent is a first-hand account of what happens when a police officer disappears into an undercover identity and stays there too long.

Brisbane, mid-1990s. Jason Somerville is a young Queensland police officer who never planned on joining the force, let alone working covert operations. After a routine buy-bust draws attention to his instincts on the street, he is selected for undercover work and gradually absorbed into a world built on de...