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Kathy and Phil live on a lifestyle block in rural bliss - until aerial 1080 poison is dropped on the forestry block adjacent to their property. Nancy and Carl are happily married. The only thing missing from their lives is a child. Maori brothers Matt and Josh work, hunt and fish for their kai and enjoy a few beers together. Rick's brain was affected by a long and difficult birth. Only his aunt believes that he may have psychopathic tendencies. Violent and unpredictable, he is searching for a way to rid her from his life - for good. Their lives connect as a 1080 drop is proposed for the hills surrounding Birch Valley. - Daryl Crimp - cartoonist/author: Never before has an issue polarized Kiwis as has the 1080 debate. The sorry saga of 1080 use in New Zealand is full of intrigue, mystery, lies, deceit, cover ups and corruption that has not only divided a nation, but pitched New Zealand onto the world stage where our little country, cloaked in it's pathetic Clean Green facade, is being mocked by a more enlightened world. All the ingredients of a top international political thriller? It is just that and Kate Winters has captured the essence of the 1080 saga and woven into a story rich in character, fast in pace and intense in suspense. While the novel is a work of fiction, the story that unfolds is born of real events.

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This is my first novel. Over the last ten years I have collected many stories from people throughout our supposed clean green country; sad, horrific, some almost unbelievable stories of ordinary New Zealanders who have been personally affected, or whose pets and stock have suffered the cruel death that comes with 1080 poisoning. What's happening here is wrong and I have written this novel incorporating some of these stories in the belief that our people have the right to live in a poison-free environment and that New Zealand should be truly Clean and Green.

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