'Justice in Kelly Country: The story of the cop who hunted Australia’s most notorious bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan. Monash University Publishing As I prepared to read Justice in Kelly Country, I mused on the challenge of the task faced by the author. The life of a policeman whose career stretched over thirty years encompasses so many events and relationships. When a significant part of that story is intermeshed with such a fiercely contested story as Ned Kelly’s, telling it introduces the further complexities of the writer’s sympathies and judgments.' (Introduction)