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Trevor that his father had taken up with a woman who was roughly Trevor’s age that a violent confrontation occurred in which he threatened Bernie with a knife. As a result, Bernie had excluded him from his will.
    ‘One day I’ll get even with him,’ Trevor told a friend at his mother’s funeral. ‘He’s cut me out of the will and he’ll pay for it . . . I never got anything off my old man and some day I’ll get money off him.’
    These thoughts came flooding into Shane’s mind, and when Garnett emerged from the bathroom, Shane pulled him aside. ‘Mate, we need to find Trevor. He’s capable of anything. He’s very disturbed and violent. I just hope he’s got nothing to do with this.’

4 THE ROLY-POLY
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    Rod Harvey was used to sudden changes of plan. The head of the State Major Incident Group was with his wife at their son’s graduation in North Sydney when his pager beeped. Rod Harvey listened, drained his beer and then he and his wife left the function.
    Rod Harvey was a stalwart of some of the old squads of the NSW Police, the Breakers and the Armed Hold-Ups, whose solid reputation had seen him rise up through promotions to the Joint Drug Taskforce and the group investigating Sydney’s underworld killing spree in the 1980s. Another of Harvey’s skills was hostage negotiation. He had undergone one of the first negotiator training courses in the state. He listened to the duty officer with particular interest, his mind forming responses on two different fronts: to the kidnap situation on the ground and, as an overview, how police would keep the case out of the news.
    Harvey had a principal role in the NSW Police which was currently undergoing a restructure. He would be one of the most senior officers in the new investigative body, called Crime Agencies, which an ambitious younger detective called Clive Small was amassing as the investigative arm of Australia’s largest police force. Crime Agencies was just three months old, but had yet to be gazetted. Harvey’s initial reaction to the news was that the abduction of a rich man’s wife and a ransom demand in US dollars had an international flavour. And that was very unusual, in Harvey’s experience.
    The official numbers for abductions in New South Wales— 273 kidnappings the previous year—were misleading. Many occurred in Sydney’s Asian community and lasted for less than a day. Harvey phoned Detective Mick Howe, catching him as he was almost home.
    ‘I need you at Parramatta immediately. That missing persons case at Parramatta. It’s just turned into a kidnap. The husband’s received a ransom letter. An international group could be behind it,’ Harvey said.
    ‘Jesus Christ,’ Howe said and turned his car around for Parramatta, where he would be joined by Detective Sergeant Dennis Bray. The pair took immediate charge of what was to become a mammoth logistical exercise, calling in specialist units—surveillance teams, hostage negotiators, the State Protection Group and the dog squad, radio technicians and the police helicopter, Polair .
    Police Commissioner Peter Ryan granted permission for the establishment of Taskforce Bellaire, which would comprise twenty-three detectives. Howe was appointed the commander and, because he was similar in age to Bernie Whelan, was also assigned to the role of victim care. Whatever happened, he was to stay close to the husband.
    Howe had come to the north-west region from Internal Affairs, the ‘toe cutters’ as they were known, where he had helped to uncover some of the worst police corruption in New South Wales’ history. Many officers resented him for it, and some regarded him as a spy.
    Detective Dennis Bray was appointed the chief investigator. He did not know it then, but the Whelan case would come to consume his life for most of the next decade. The good-looking cop had a reputation for his dogged determination, refusing to let go of a case until it was thoroughly investigated.
    Police were treating