Universal Predator is the incredible inside story of Esther Rockett's campaign to expose Serge Benhayon, the multimillionaire leader of Universal Medicine — a female-focused 'esoteric healing' enterprise marketing dubious products like Esoteric Breast Massage. Esther recounts her creepy first encounters with former tennis coach and self-styled guru Benhayon and the feverish retaliation from his fanatical followers, including his devotee lawyers, as she investigates him and publishes her findings online. Having uncovered his lucrative industry of exploitation, Benhayon sues her for defamation and she must fight to get her defence to trial, struggling with scarce resources and, at times, her own ambivalence.

Told in Esther's inimitably incisive style, Universal Predator is a David and Goliath tale for the internet age of one woman's battle against a patriarchal money-raking cult. A post-New Age MeToo story, it's also a riveting courtroom drama where a slippery manipulator willingly enters the witness box at the Supreme Court of New South Wales and pits himself against veteran criminal and defamation lawyer, Tom Molomby SC.