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Ben Ford Smith Ben Ford Smith i(19298766 works by)
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1 Robert Horne Interviewed by Ben Ford Smith Ben Ford Smith (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2021;

'Ben Ford Smith talks to the author of The Glass Harpoon about being longlisted for this year’s ARA Historical Novel Prize and South Australia’s history.' 

1 Robert Horne : The Glass Harpoon Ben Ford Smith , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , April 2021;

— Review of The Glass Harpoon Robert Horne , 2020 single work novel

'Robert Horne’s novel reveals uncomfortable truths about the violence of colonial Australia.'

1 y separately published work icon Drugs, Guns and Lies : My Life as an Undercover Cop Keith Banks , Ben Ford Smith , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2020 19298799 2020 single work autobiography

''Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.'

'This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated police officers, and his journey into the world of drugs as an undercover operative in the 1980s. In an era of corruption, often alone and with no backup, he and other undercover cops quickly learned to blend into the drug scene, smoking dope and drinking with targets, buying drugs and then having dealers arrested. Very quickly, the lines between his identity as a police officer and the life he pretended to be part of became blurred.

'This is a raw and confronting story of undercover cops who all became casualties of that era, some more than others, when not everyone with a badge could be trusted.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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