To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a stand-up guy, a top cop and assistant director for the NSW Crime Commission. There was little he didn’t know about the underworld. Operation Octans saw him arrested as the mastermind behind one of the country’s biggest drug-smuggling plots.
The fallout from discovering this rat in the ranks – a man driven by sex, greed and an insatiable gambling habit – reaches around the world.