The story of the police sting that resulted in the confession of Daniel Morcombe's killer reads like crime fiction. An elaborately staged face crime gang, run by a 'Mr Big',that lured Brett Cowan in with the promise of a hefty payout. It was the stuff of a TV crime series rather than an Australian police operation. The Sting reveals extraordinary new detail and a shocking insight into one of the country's most evil killers, and the operation that brought him down. Go behind the scenes in one of Australia's most sensational undercover busts. Never-before-heard detail of the covert investigation, including how Cowan was slowly brainwashed into believing 'Mr Big'. Read what Cowan's family think of their black sheep. Kate Kyriacou has been a journalist since 2001 and has written for newspapers around the country, including the Sunday Herald-Sun, the Adelaide Advertiser and Sunday Mail, and Brisbane's Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail. She has been the Courier-Mail's chief crime reporter since 2012 and has won awards, both at a state and national level, for her work as a crime writer.