Book Author David White with Angus Gillies
Rights Available World excluding ANZ
In May and June 2016, a gang of four were hired to complete the importation into New Zealand of Methamphetamine worth $500 million. Over a short time, a series of almost comical misadventures saw this group attract serious attention from locals in the far north, destroy one boat, and leave a trail of clues for the police, eventually, to catch them. FAR NORTH is a saga of screw-ups, as everyday people strive to foil an international drug cartel’s largest-ever drug deal in the Pacific; the cops trip themselves up; and gangsters chase a payday with zero discretion – leaving a trail of wreckage you can see from space.
About the Authors
David White studied producing at England’s National Film and TV School. By then he’d already co-produced documentary Shihad: Beautiful Machine (2012). His own documentary Meat — which introduces audiences to three farmers and a hunter — had a successful cinema release in 2017. It is one of a number of projects in which White chronicles people who kill animals, so that others may eat them. After acting in one of his own films, White went on to write, direct and co-star in 2020 romantic comedy This Town.
Angus Gillies is the author of the so-called Ruatoria Killings series of non-fiction investigations. He has worked as a journalist and producer at TV3 for 20 years, and has written biographies of Matthew Ridge, Adam Parore, Justin Marshall and John Rowles.
Category
Non-Fiction
Genre
True Crime
Publication Date
August 2023
Rights Available:
World excl ANZ
Rights Agents:
World
Kevin Chapman, Upstart Press
kevin@upstartpress.co.nz
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