Jesse Fink has been called ‘detective like’ by America’s Library Journal magazine. He is the author of six non-fiction books and has been published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Danish, Serbian, Russian, Estonian and Lithuanian. His three most recent books – THE EAGLE IN THE MIRROR, PURE NARCO and BON: THE LAST HIGHWAY – have also been released in audio editions in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. 

Fink was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised in Sydney, Australia. He attended Fort Street High School and graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the father of an adult daughter and holds dual UK–Australia citizenship. He is Dutch-Anglo-Indian on his father’s side and Welsh-Australian on his mother’s side.

Fink worked for five years as senior editor of non-fiction at HarperCollins Publishers Australia, helming acclaimed and award-winning books such as David Day’s John Curtin: A Life and Chifley, Jill Margo’s Frank Lowy, Christopher Kremmer’s The Carpet Wars and George Negus’s The World from Italy, among dozens of other titles.

After leaving book publishing, Fink won several prestigious sportswriting awards as a print journalist for Inside Sport magazine, which he served as deputy editor from 2003 to 2006. In 2003 he was nominated for a Walkley Award for Coverage of Sport, Australia’s top journalism prize.
 

In 2006, Fink began writing daily blogs as 'Half-Time Orange' for Fox Sports Australia. The following year he wrote his first book, 15 DAYS IN JUNE, (Hardie Grant, 2007), the story of Australia’s performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the nation’s forgotten history in Asian football. The book has since been re-released in two digital editions and a print edition.

For the next five years, Fink’s sportswriting went on to appear on a number of football websites throughout Australia, India, South Korea, South-East Asia and Europe, including ESPN Star Sports and Fox Sports Asia, both based in Singapore. His column for SBS Television’s The World Game was the most read online football blog in Australia.   

In 2011 Fink wrote a feature about divorce for Australian marie claire. It ended up securing him a book deal with Hachette Australia, which published his memoir, LAID BARE, the following year. Men’s Health praised the book as ‘X-rated, honest and compelling’, while the Herald Sun described it as ‘Penthouse Letters with post-orgasmic guilt… an engrossing read’. Fink’s writing on sex and relationships went on to appear in several national magazines, notably News Limited’s Sunday Style.

His next book, THE YOUNGS: THE BROTHERS WHO BUILT AC/DC, was published by Penguin Random House Australia in 2013 and by St Martin’s Press in the United States in 2014, as well as over a dozen European, South American and Asian countries. A number-one bestselling music biography in the United States, Germany and United Kingdom, it was chosen among PRI Public Radio International’s Best Books of 2014 and featured in The New Yorker. The book was also a number-one national bestseller in Denmark, a first for an Australian author.

In 2017, Fink released two books: an updated ‘author’s cut’ edition of LAID BARE (Xoum Publishing) and the momentous BON: THE LAST HIGHWAY (Penguin Random House Australia, ECW Press, Black & White Publishing, Hannibal Verlag, Editora Saraiva, Disk Union, Le Castor Astral, Vaktel Forlag), a 500-page biography of AC/DC singer Bon Scott. Bon was a number-one music biography in Sweden, the United Kingdom and France, chosen for five Book of the Year lists, and the cover story in the December 2017 issue of Classic Rock. It is now widely considered the definitive biography of the AC/DC legend. 

In 2020, Fink’s fifth book, PURE NARCO (Penguin Random House Australia, John Blake Publishing, Rowman & Littlefield, Äripäev), was released. It tells the life story of Cuban-American cocaine trafficker Luis Navia and Navia’s dramatic arrest in Venezuela by agents of the DEA and United States Customs Service. 

Fink’s sixth book, THE EAGLE IN THE MIRROR, a biography of Australian-born British intelligence officer and accused Nazi and Soviet spy Charles Howard ‘Dick’ Ellis, was released by Penguin Random House Australia and Black & White Publishing (UK) in August 2023. Kensington Publishing released the book in the United States in May 2024.

In October 2024, Fink published BON: NOTES FROM THE HIGHWAY, a collection of material about Bon Scott not included in BON: THE LAST HIGHWAY. It was released to commemorate 50 years since Scott joined AC/DC.