When Michael McGurk was murdered in a professional hit in September 2009, not only did the pretence of his reputation start to unravel, but so too was the lid lifted on a very dark way of doing business. The professional operator, the doting father and the generous Catholic parishioner was revealed as a violent loan shark, a stand over merchant and blackmailer. And those caught up in his web included high profile Labor identities, big time property developers and some of the biggest merchant banks in the country. Long-time associate Richard Vereker reveals all about the strange life and sudden death of a seemingly ordinary man ...