Far North
David White with Angus Gillies
Pub Date: 22nd August 2023
ISBN: 9781760688530
AU RRP: $34.99
Format: Trade Paperback
Extent: 208 pages
Ebook ISBN: 9781760688561
AU RRP: $12.99
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The New Zealand Keystone Cops story you won't believe is true crime. To be released alongside the Far North limited series starring Temerua Morrison and Robyn Malcolm.
June 2016, Far North, New Zealand.
The job seemed simple: leave Auckland, pick up 500kg of meth from Ninety-Mile Beach and drive it back south, while keeping a low profile. How hard could that be?
This is the true story of one of New Zealand’s biggest ever drug busts, and how those responsible almost got away with half a tonne of crystal meth. Oh, and half a billion dollars.
But thanks to the sleuthing skills of Ahipara’s good-hearted locals – and a series of unbelievable faux-pas by the drug-smugglers – police managed to catch the crims.
They say fact is stranger than fiction, and in this case it is. Stranger, and funnier. It’s a story like no other. This is Far North.
About the Authors
David White has produced and directed a substantial body of documentary and drama work that has enjoyed considerable national and international success, among them Meat, Shihad: Beautiful Machine, I Kill, Little Criminals, the Cleanest Pig and This Town. His work has screened at over 50 film festivals including Sundance, AFI, SXSW, SilverDocs, Tribeca, MIFF, TRUE/FALSE, Clermont Ferrand and has been commissioned and screened on networks such as BBC, Paramount +, Sky, Sundance Now, TVNZ and PRIME TV.
David's debut comedy film This Town (in association with South Pacific Pictures) starred Robyn Malcolm, Rima Te Wiata, and himself as the main character. It was critically acclaimed and held number one at the New Zealand theatrical box office for 21 days straight. He is in post-production for a 6-part true crime series Far North, which he created, wrote and directed. Starring Robyn Malcolm and Temerua Morrison, the series is the most expensive New Zealand-based television show to have ever been made. It has already been sold to New Zealand, Australia and North America.
Angus Gillies is the author of the 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.