Every Bit of a Circle is Bent

The Fifth Estate - Book III

Skilfully sledging the crooked scammers who continue to plunder the community chest, Terence McLernon extends his knowledge as a former police officer and private investigator to unravel the corrupting structure of white collar crime. His unforgiving exposure of the iniquities of High Church sexual abuses continues unabated. Indeed, the visit of the Pontiff to Australia for a World Youth Day provides a vehicle for his wry observation that if he had been Police Commissioner, "… and some short Italian with a name starting with Rat, whose predecessors infamously used stand over tactics to make a huge fortune from tithing, landed his jumbo jet on my beat, then, surrounded by armed bodyguards, alighted wearing a dress and little red booties -- claiming to be JC’s representative on Earth -- I would immediately have him arrested, drug-tested and his plane searched for missing orphans."

author: Terence J McLernon
published: coming in 2009
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If The Hat Fits, Wear It

The Sequel to The Fifth Estate

Committing hubris of the highest order, author of The Fifth Estate, Terence McLernon again uses his skills and knowledge as a former police officer and private investigator to expose the hi-jinx of low-life business operators. The still-intact police culture by which corruption has become ingrained in our society has permeated all levels of business and politics. Even the excesses and sexual brutalities of a feckless Catholic brotherhood remain unpunished.

Yet it is not without wry humour that Mr McLernon runs his quizzical eye over the cast of characters. The gems of the Fat Wallet Mob meet the light of day. Political ineptitude races neck and neck with judicial blindness and police razzmatazz.

author: Terence J McLernon
published: November 2007
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The Fifth Estate

In this entertaining and humorous expose of the rogues and rapscallions of the new criminal elite. The Fifth Estate. Terence McLernon uses his skills and knowledge as a former police officer and private investigator to highlight sundry rorts and scams. Often they involve the still intact police culture by which corruption has become ingrained in our society.

Meet Two-Gun Elroy, Tatiana the Fake Russian Psychic, the bold Duck and the Fearsome Featherfeet supported by a bizarre cast of miscreants from the netherworld and lower.

author: Terence J McLernon
published: January 2007
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