Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), and Killing Juanita (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, as well as Desert Boys, Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command (2013), The Anzac Girls (2014) and Bearing Witness (2015).