Dark Side, The

Roger Rogerson hasn’t been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him the most well-known ‘detective-sergeant’ in Australia. He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; portrayed in TV dramas; and recorded by covert listening devices at home for months. Rogerson took up his own pen in prison. Out, he walked the club and pub speaking circuit, where he found a ready audience for his tales of law and mayhem. Here, he tells us of: high profile investigations; forgotten ones, like when a key from Tassie opened a Sydney murderer’s door; some of the most interesting dead people he’s ever met; the hunt for desperados on a deadly robbing spree; the bloody night that earned him the award for courageous action; meeting a prominent toe cutter; besieging the comic Wally and the dangerous Green Man; the dogs in a prison he sojourned in; bad days in a flattened railcarriage at Granville and more. These untold tales are the ones everyone else has glossed over or ignored, from the horses mouth, for the first time. In May 2014 Rogerson was remanded in prison after being charged, with another former NSW detective, with the murder of student Jamie Gao, and supply of drugs. pp. 224 illusts #1218/0820 TRUE CRIME