Cirrus@Austlit

'Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance journalist has stumbled across information that Ihaka's father Jimmy, a trade union firebrand and renegade Marxist, didn't die of natural causes. The stories weave themselves into an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political manoeuvring and intrigue surrounding the USA's confrontation with New Zealand over its anti-nuclear stance.'

Source : publication summary

'Maori cop Tito Ihaka, “unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox and profane “, is a cop unable to play the police politics necessary for promotion, but a man who has a way with women, and he's a stubborn investigator with an uncanny instinct for the truth.
'Ihaka is in the wilderness, having fallen foul of the new regime at Auckland Central. Called back to follow up a strange twist in the unsolved case that got him into trouble in the first place, Ihaka finds himself hunting a shadowy hitman who could have several notches on his belt.
'His enemies want him off the case, but the bodies are piling up. Ihaka embarks on a quest to establish whether police corruption was behind the shooting of an undercover cop and--to complicate matters-- he becomes involved with an enigmatic female suspect who could hold the key to everything.'

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'Maori detective Tito Ihaka (Temuera Morrison), is sent to a police training conference in Sydney following complaints about his rough tactics when arresting a cop-killer in his native Auckland. To keep him out of trouble, he is teamed with police media officer Kirsty Finn (Rebecca Gibney), and together they are assigned to review the three-year-old unsolved murder of supermodel, Julia Renton. The investigation at the time of the murder concluded that it was a random sex-killing, but with the unique combination of Finn's PR skills and Ihaka's direct approach of frightening people, the two not only find themselves in political hot water, but they uncover the sinister truth behind the killing.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 25/6/2013)

'Across the Tasman Sea, the Aotearoa Peoples Army is waging a bizarre offensive. A redneck broadcaster is forced to walk the plank, fifteen storeys up. A crusading journalist gets his neck wrung. A diehard monarchist MP is slow-cooked and his bodyguard fed to a pitbull terrier. But is there more to the shadowy and sinister APA that meets the eye? The counter-terrorism experts think theyre on top of things, but maverick cop Tito Ihaka reckons they couldnt catch a terrorist if someones life depended on it. Pretty soon, Ihaka is in grave danger of being proved dead right.'

Source: Libraries Australia

'After getting out of a Thai jail, Duane Ricketts had planned to stay away from drugs, but instead, following the last request of a dying man, he finds himself looking for 10 kilos of cocaine, during which time he comes across a body, and gains the unwanted interest of the Auckland police.'

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'Reggie Sparks is caught between blackmail and double-cross, between the Sydney Mafia and a street gang called the blood drinkers, and between an ex-SAS psychopath and maverick cop Tito Ihaka after turf warfare breaks out in Sydney.'

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