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Author: Jesse Fink
Biography: Jesse Fink has been called ‘detective like’ by America’s Library Journal magazine. He is the author of six non-fiction books and has been published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages.
Fink was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised in Sydney, Australia, by his Australian parents. He is the father of an adult daughter and holds dual UK–Australia citizenship.
Fink worked for five years as senior editor of non-fiction at HarperCollins Publishers Australia. After leaving book publishing, Fink won several prestigious sports writing awards as a print journalist for Inside Sport magazine, which he served as deputy editor from 2003 to 2006. In 2003 he was nominated for a Walkley Award for Coverage of Sport, Australia’s top journalism prize.
In 2006, Fink began writing daily blogs for Fox Sports Australia. The following year he wrote his first book, 15 Days In June, the story of Australia’s performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the nation’s forgotten history in Asian football.
In 2011 Fink wrote a feature about divorce for Australian marie claire. It ended up securing him a book deal with Hachette Australia, which published his memoir, Laid Bare, the following year.
His next book, The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, was chosen among PRI Public Radio International’s Best Books of 2014 and featured in The New Yorker. The book was also a number-one national bestseller in Denmark, a first for an Australian author. In 2017, Fink released Bon: The Last Highway, a 500-page biography of AC/DC singer Bon Scott. Bon was a #1 music biography in Sweden, the United Kingdom and France, chosen for five Book of the Year lists, and the cover story in the December 2017 issue of Classic Rock. It is now widely considered the definitive biography of the AC/DC legend. In 2020, Fink’s fifth book, Pure Narco was released. It tells the life story of Cuban-American cocaine trafficker Luis Navia and Navia’s dramatic arrest in Venezuela by agents of the DEA and United States Customs Service.
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.