ABOUT
THE BOOK

New Zealand twenty years ago, when margarine was sold in pharmacies and protective tariffs ruled….The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade, an ex-dairy farmer called Hamish Carew, sets off on a Swing Around of New Zealand’s Asian friends and neighbours. With him are his wife Molly and two young officials, Freddy Manders and Violet Redpath.
It should be a routine affair. But Molly doesn’t like shopping. Freddy is consumed by bitterness at the wife who left him and the superiors who have sidelined his career, Violet finds herself at a loose end…. and lurking on the horizon is the shadowy terrorist group Lightning Storm.