He who must be Obeid. Kate McClymont & Linton Besser. 2014.

Queensland had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Moonlight state, New South Wales has Eddie Obeid.

Meet Australia’s most corrupt politician whose brazen misdeeds were on a scale said to be ‘unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps’.

From the shadows Obeid ran the state as his fiefdom making and unmaking premiers. Along the way he pocketed tens of millions of dollars following corrupt deals.

This explosive book chronicles the grubby deals the powerbroker had been making for decades before he was exposed. His tentacles stretched through all levels of government, encircling almost every precious resource - coal leases, Circular Quay cafes, marinas, even the state’s water. All of them were secret money-spinners for Obeid and his family……..