Since starting on a country newspaper in 1975, Andrew Rule has worked on three metropolitan newspapers and in radio and television production. He has variously written, co-written, edited and published many books, including the Underbelly true crime series and the Chopper series, which inspired the successful feature film. Rule has won many awards including a Gold Walkley, the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of The Year award twice and the Melbourne Press Club's Golden Quill twice. He wrote feature stories for Good Weekend magazine for several years and was a deputy editor at The Sunday Age from 2007 until returning to the Herald Sun as associate editor in 2011. He is currently a columnist and feature writer, specialising in investigative stories, and in the last four years has covered everything from the Christchurch earthquake, the Japanese tsunami, the London Olympics, the Melbourne Cup and the Australian army's last weeks in Afghanistan. He wrote the best-selling biography of media mogul Kerry Stokes released in late 2014 and is a regular crime correspondent on Radio MMM.