Andrew Boe is a criminal barrister now based in Sydney. His legal work has taken him to Broome, Alice Springs, Injinoo, the Gulf of Carpentaria, as well as most cities and towns on the eastern seaboard of Australia with a courthouse. He has represented a serial killer (Ivan Milat), vulnerable Indigenous communities (including Palm Island), political animals (One Nation proponent David Ettridge, Indigenous MP Billy Gordon and billionaire Clive Palmer), women who have been battered by their partners, men who have done the battering, as well as ordinary people facing challenges within the Australian criminal justice system. Andrew has written widely about criminal and social justice matters, albeit till now in journalistic and news comment format and was a panellist on the ABC's Q&A program in 2009. The issues he was involved concerning Palm Island are the subject of Chloe Hooper's THE TALL MAN and the SBS television documentary with the same title. His experience of Australian law is a unique one, but the issues he speaks of are necessary reading for all Australians. Andrew was born in Burma and arrived in Australia with his parents and four brothers in the late sixties as political refugees. THE TRUTH HURTS is his debut literary work.
It lacks nothing but a kill switch ... [Boe's] book is painstakingly built on matters of fact that are deeply relevant to every Australian alive in 2020 ... wired with over 30 years of microscopic observations from the legal coal face - Weekend Australian Magazine A very enlightening, worthwhile and honest read - Lawyers Weekly