Rather than delegating his corrupt activities he undertakes them himself, keeping full records and dossiers on those who oppose him.

"[2] In her literary study of West and his work, Maryanne Confoy noted: "West's questioning standpoint in relation to life meant that he needed to work out his own response to new and problematic questions that were surfacing in his world.

In Cassidy West took the question of killing to a new ethical depth when he described the squeaky-clean and morally righteous lawyer Martin Gregory and his relationship with his father-in-law, Charles Parnell Cassidy, Premier of New South Wales, a man 'simple as a biblical serpent'.

[1] The novel was translated into Swedish,[5] Spanish and Portuguese in 1986; German, Italian, French and Norwegian in 1987; Greek in 1988; Czech in 1991; and Polish in 1992.

The series was directed by Carl Schultz and Derek Hayes from a screenplay by Joanna Murray-Smith.