Synposis

Sometimes one person with the right skills is more effective than an army.

Especially when that person is the enigmatic Richard Button.

  To his neighbours, Richard has an outspoken wife and two teenage kids who face all the normal problems and challenges of teenage-hood. In fact their household would be an all-too-familiar snapshot of modern middle-class Australia except for one small difference.

Everything they say is being heard by a team of Australian Serious Crime Agency agents.

  Because unbeknown to his kids, Richard is a highly secret but never-trusted Informant for the Australian Serious Crime Agency.   They can tell he has either Secret Service training from somewhere, or a history with organized crime at a very high level. But his real past is a mystery. He says he is working for them – but at any stage in any operation they fear a deeper truth will emerge. His experience also gives him a unique ability to infiltrate criminal organisations of all sizes, types and ethnic bases using whatever persona is necessary. And the information he uncovers for the ASCA stops extortion, murder, fraud, terrorism, money-laundering, illegal gambling, arms dealing, drug dealing, whatever-dealing.

And the people who are nicked never know who he really is.

  Nor do his kids. They just think their un-cool Dad is a struggling importer of outdoor furniture who gives them a “greasy”* whenever they ask for money. They also think their bedroom conversations are private…