They’ll Never Hold Me is in bookstores now. Michael sat down with Meshel Laurie of the Australian True Crime podcast to talk all things Kevin John Simmonds. Part Two covers Simmo’s 1959 crime spree and the first few weeks of what was the largest manhunt i

They’ll Never Hold Me is in bookstores now. Michael sat down with Meshel Laurie of the Australian True Crime podcast to talk all things Kevin John Simmonds. Part One covers Simmo from his birth during the Great Depression to his 1959 decision to become an

Please enjoy a second audiobook extract that continues the story of young Kevin John Simmonds, as he grows up in Griffith, grapples with the lure of criminality and gets a preview of his life in the saga of legendary Sydney characters Darcy Dugan and Ray

My new book, They'll Never Hold Me, which chronicles the life, times and crimes of Long Bay Gaol escapee Kevin John Simmonds, has just been released as an audio book. I'm pleased to present this exclusive excerpt, which comprises the prologue and first tw

Who was this good guy with a gun? We delve into life of American cowboy Albert Arizona Ryan, who became a celebrity in 1919 in Australia after killing a man to end a Sydney siege. Hear how Arizona, like Dirty Harry, had a history of trigger-happy vigila

In 1919, in the Sydney slum of Surry Hills, a Chinese gunman shot more than a dozen people, triggering a dramatic police siege that was only ended by the violent intervention of a lone American vigilante. But who was this self-styled cowboy with the six-s

With their suspect in custody, D.C. detectives still cant celebrate because in Washington in 1972 seven out of every ten murderers go free. Forty years after the verdicts in these murder trials, the FBI will make a bombshell forensic revelation to cast d

With another Washington woman murdered in identical circumstances to Sherry and Sharan, D.C. detectives finally have a suspect but can they find the disturbed man who stalks the D.C. streets, hides in apartments and calls himself Goliath?Check out my

Despite the best efforts of D.C. detectives and Sydney cops including Senior Constable Roger Rogerson Sherry and Sharans killer remains at large. When a breakthrough comes, itll be in the worst possible circumstances.To pre-order They'll Never Hold

Sherry Frahm and Sharan Tapp settle into living and working in Washington. But its dangerous being a counter girl in a McDonalds during D.C.s ever-bloodier wave of senseless murders.The five-part miniseries is based on information unearthed in Australi