While many paedophiles face a few years behind bars, their victims are given a life long sentence of suffering. Fighting lawyer Andrew Carpenter has one mission - to make Australia the most dangerous place for child sex offenders, and it starts with seizing super. 

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Andrew Carpenter is a lawyer and a mixed martial arts ring announcer. He’s also known as the most hated man in Australia by child sex offenders - and it’s his badge of honour. As a voice for survivors of child sexual abuse, Carpenter has spent years locking up the lowest of the low criminals.

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Jack Roney had a secret. Between searching for missing children and attending heartbreaking murder-suicides as a detective, he was looking for something more. During his commute to work, Jack secretly spent months fiercely bleeding words onto the page. Soon after, he left his career as a cop in favour of life as a crime writer.

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Jack Roney joined the police fresh out of high school. He attended fatal car crashes, got in fights with bikies, was sent to the scene of tragic murder-suicides and interviewed children whose parents were shot and killed in their own home. Needing to escape the heavy toll of child protection, Jack Roney found a way to process the hard truth of what he was seeing by becoming a crime fiction writer

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Former detective senior sergeant Ed Kinbacher has seen a lot of crime in the past 40 years. He locked up notorious con man Danny Shakespeare. He observed the horror left behind by a mother who killed eight children days before Christmas. But one case that still bugs him is that of the mysterious Jet Set Bandit. 

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Ex top cop Ed Kinbacher has a reputation for unorthodox investigations. He’s conducted his own backyard experiments to catch killers, he’s taken unusual measures to track down persons of interest, and he’s been first on the scene as an active shooter fired at a Queensland hospital. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, policing very much runs through the recently retired detective senior sergeant’s blood.

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Craig Foster sacrificed his entire life for a man he’d never met. Foster spent months flying around the world between FIFA, the UN and European embassies fighting for footballer Hakeem al-Araibi, who was wrongfully detained on his honeymoon. Prepared to lose whatever it took, including his house, Foster assured al-Araibi’s wife that her husband wasn’t going to die in prison. What unfolded was an incredible race against the clock.

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Craig Foster is a former Socceroo captain, TV presenter, law student - he’s even won the odd Logie Award. But at his core, he’s just a guy from rural Australia, hoping to make an impact on the world. When he heard Hakeem al-Araibi had been wrongfully detained in a Thai prison, Foster reacted the only way he could. He quit his job, packed up his life and went overseas to save a man he’d never met.

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Tony Hoang was a teenage drug dealer hanging out with violent gangs and feeding a raging heroin habit. Not far away, Russell Manser had robbed his first bank at 22 - the first in a string of several violent burglaries. This is how they escaped the deadly world of crime.

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Nader Hamdan was just 16 when he punched a cop in the jaw and grabbed his gun. On the other side of New South Wales in Redfern’s notorious streets, Jeffrey Morgan was running riots with police and robbing banks. Both men were heading to an early grave or life behind bars. Instead, they turned their troubled lives around. This is their redemption story. 

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