Name Damian Marrett | ||
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Books White Lies, Wired: Undercover in the Un, Undercover, Undercover 2: White Lies, White Lies: Bending the Truth | ||
Damian Marrett (born in 1967 in Melbourne) is an Australian non-fiction crime writer and a former undercover police detective with the Victoria Police force.
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Career
He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs as a crime commentator and is also a freelance writer. He has worked on various crime series including Channel Nine's television show Stinger. A scene from his book Undercover was reenacted as part of the Seven Network's Gangs of Oz television series. He has coproduced various TV programs including Police Under Fire which screened on the Seven Network in 2010.
Director Torus Tammer and Oscar-nominated producer Daniel Dubiecki optioned the best-selling Australian true crime novels "Undercover" and "White Lies". Tammer and Dubiecki are currently developing the feature film adaptation of "Undercover" in partnership with Screen Australia.
Legal issues
In January 2014, Marrett pleaded guilty to procuring a serving Victoria Police officer friend to disclose confidential information from the police database for a fellow private investigator. The officer provided the information to him to locate a woman which he passed onto the private investigator. Unbeknownst to him was that the client was the father of the woman, and that the daughter lived in fear of being found by the father and had an intervention order on him.