The Convict Stain

Late January 1985 Dame Kiri is launching Vukovich Sauvignon Blanc on the Sydney Opera House steps with major shareholders

the Delaney family present. The American nuclear warship the Buchanan is in harbour for ANZUS exercises and protesters are out

in force, among them Ali Delaney and her American boyfriend. Detective Sergeant Maria Pikowai, ne Delaney, is in town as

protection detail for New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange secretly meeting his Australian counterpart Bob Hawke in the

Sydney Hilton hotel. DS Pikowai joins Australian and American security forces confronting plots to sink the warship, kidnap Lange

and destroy the ANZUS accord. Then there are the Delaney family problems damned and potentially redeemed by the convict stain. In

his sixth outing Dan Delaney is forced to learn more than he wants to about his origins, and it could be the reconciling of his divided family.

'An intense part of New Zealand and...