Science, Secrets and a Conspiracy Buried Deep

A senior scientist is found dead — head-down in a bin of wet cow dung — at a Canberra research facility. At first, it looks like a bizarre accident. But the investigation quickly uncovers hidden wealth, a secret handgun, and suspicious ties to the southern U.S.
As police dig deeper, they hit resistance. Records vanish, a key witness is shipped overseas, and the name “Pepe” keeps surfacing. A secretive group called BLANK emerges, and even members of the investigation team may not be what they seem.
With danger closing in, the chase leads far from Canberra — and into a conspiracy no one saw coming.

About the Author

Paul Ferrar is a biologist who worked on dung beetles and maggots in northern Australia, on termites in a South African game park, as a rat-catcher in a large mental hospital in the UK, and in the Australian aid program managing cooperative research projects between Australian agricultural scientists and those in developing countries working on similar problems. He is also the author of a 907-page monograph on all you ever wanted to know and more about the maggots of 96 different families of flies. He is married to a very tolerant wife, also a research scientist and administrator but fortunately with a more conventional career.