Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville is an Australian writer and filmmaker whose work draws directly from lived experience inside policing and undercover operations. He served more than a decade with the Queensland Police Service, including time working covert roles during the mid 1990s, where he operated under long term assumed identities in drug and serious crime investigations.
After leaving the police, Jason transitioned into writing and screen based storytelling, focusing on identity, deception, and the quiet psychological cost of institutional work. His writing is grounded, observational, and restrained, shaped by real events rather than genre tropes. He approaches crime not as spectacle, but as a human system where intention, morality, and consequence rarely align neatly.
Jason’s work spans long form nonfiction, screenwriting, and film development, with projects recognised through Australian and international screenplay platforms and festivals. Undercurrent is his first book, written as both a standalone literary work and a screen adaptable narrative, offering an unfiltered account of undercover life and the personal erosion that comes with living someone else’s identity.
Jason lives in Brisbane, Australia.