Guerilla Season
(PAUL THOMAS)
Terrorism has come to New Zealand: a rabid right-wing
talkback host is forced to walk the plank fifteen stories up; the
best known print journalist in the country is murdered; and a monarchist MP is
roasted to death and his bodyguard fed to a pit bull. These killings are
claimed by the previously unknown Aotearoa People''s Army and the anti-terrorism
experts from Wellington
are sure they''re the work of Maori extremists, but maverick cop Tito Ihaka
reckons they haven''t got a clue.
Tito soon finds himself taken off the case, but is assigned instead to a
blackmail attempt that turns out to be linked to it, and which unsettles those
involved. When they make the mistake of kidnapping Tito himself, his friends go
looking for him...
Guerilla Season maintains coherence through its fast-moving twists
and turns, with a plot that holds together surprisingly well. Humor dominates
over tension, with the extensive mayhem pitched for laughs rather than
suspense. And there''s some nice local color, in the Auckland setting and the seedier side of some
of its celebrities. Frivolous but fun, Guerilla Season is an
entertaining comic thriller.
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