Thursday, November 20, 2014

Bombing the Rainbow Warrior

Bombing the Rainbow Warrior
Michael King

Announcing the release of this new BWB Text by Michael King, available as an e-book from the BWB website and global e-bookstores.

About Bombing the Rainbow Warrior
They seemed like a nice enough French couple, touring New Zealand in a campervan in 1985. But Auckland police suspected they were in fact experienced French agents Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, part of a dozen-strong team behind the bombing of the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior. This fascinating BWB Text presents in startling detail the careful interrogation of the couple by detectives, leading to their arrest and conviction.

Bombing the Rainbow Warrior is derived from Michael King’s Death of the Rainbow Warrior (published in 1986) and includes a short introduction by Geoff Walker:

‘The two agents, later known by their real names Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, had toured New Zealand in a campervan posing as tourists, being detained by police when they returned their van to the rental company. King’s account of the police interrogation of the couple is unusually detailed. In fact it contains page after page of verbatim accounts of the police questioning, literally a Q&A. To have these notes of evidence appear in full in print like this is very rare. So, we may ask, how did Michael King obtain them?’

About the author
The late Michael King, who died in 2004, was one of New Zealand’s leading historians. He was the author of a number of outstanding biographies, including those of Princess Te Puea, Whina Cooper, Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson, and wrote widely on Māori and Pākehā history. He was the author of the bestselling The Penguin Book of New Zealand History.

About BWB Texts
BWB Texts are short books on big subjects. New BWB Texts are being released in digital and print into 2015 and beyond. Upcoming Texts include Tunes for Bears to Dance To, a reflection on formative forces by award-winning writer Owen Marshall. 

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