Electric Blue

- Blurb -

Paul Verhoeven' s ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime- he' d spill his guts on tape. What unfolded in Loose Units was a goldmine of true-crime stories, showcasing John' s dramatic experience of policing in Sydney in the 1980s and brilliantly twisted sense of humour. But what happened next in John' s career was twice as weird. Electric Blue spans the final years of John' s stint in the New South Wales police force, when he took up an offer to move into the grimy, analytical world of forensics. Paul unpicks his father' s most terrible cases. There was the case of a rapist hiding in the walls of shower block, a body that was quite literally cooked, and the bizarre copycat suicides. But what' s it actually like to have a heroic ex-cop as a Dad? Paul and John delve into their unique father-son relationship and how they ended up so different to each other. They figure out how to deal with the choices they' ve made . . . or wish they' d made. And Paul' s mum, Christine, reveals what it was like to be a pioneering female cop in the eighties when misogyny was rife in the force. Thrilling, fascinating and unexpectedly laugh-out-loud funny, Electric Blue is another high-octane adventure in policing, integrity and learning what family is really all about.