The Prince and the PremierAuthor: David Hickie Condition: Good Paperback EXTREMELY RARE tur crime book. Published in 1985, its claim that Premier Robert Askin was corrupt, coming after Hickies article to that effect in the David Marr edited National Times in 1981, had an enormous impact and has been believed ever since. The evidence for this is circumstantial. All Hickies sources on Askin were dead or unnamed, like Askin himself and most of the over 430 sources Hickie claimed