Before he turned to writing full time, James Morton was a London lawyer specialising in criminal defence work. He is the author of over thirty books dealing mainly with organised crime. He now divides his year between England and Australia where, with Susanna Lobez, he has written the bestselling Gangland Australia and Kings of Sting. With the award-winning Herald Sun journalist Russell Robinson, he has written Shotgun and Standover, an account of the Painters and Dockers' Union. He has a master's degree in Criminology.