Author’s Note
I truly hope you have enjoyed the story I’ve created by bringing Jack Dallas to life. Jack has been part of my life for over six years. It all started as a short story I wrote back in late 2013. It was about a detective sitting in the back of a cab after arriving in Sydney, thinking about the death of a friend. After I’d finished the story, 5000 words later, I knew there could be a lot more to it. This was the seed that grew my story as it stands today.
My characters and their storyline were inspired by my emotional experience with movies, books, actors and actresses, even music – and of course Kings Cross. I grew up in a time before DVDs and video, and remember in the early ’80s getting my fix of noir films every Tuesday night by watching Bill Collins’ Golden Years of Holl
