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I cannot begin to tell you the sheer joy on opening the parcel containing this book.  I read book 3 in this trilogy Guerilla Season ages ago and simply loved it.  Went on a quest for book 2 - Inside Dope which I managed to get hold of, but the quest for book 1 - Old School Tie has never come up successful.

Until now (okay so it wasn't my quest - just my extreme good luck to be sent a review copy).  Despite the pressure of all the other wonderful books on my MtTBR pile this set of three went straight to the top and I read Old School Tie in two sittings.  Now well into Inside Dope and intend to finish all 3 books by the end of the weekend.

Did I mention I loved these books.  But more on them when I do a VERY timely full review after I've finished Guerilla Season.

In the meantime - if you're looking for something that's fun, very tongue in cheek, hilarious at points, a bit on the violent side in places but not overly so, but just wonderful, not exactly a police procedural / not exactly an accidental detective style book - well there are shops that sell books and The Ihaka Trilogy should be in them as of now!

From the Blurb:

Old School Tie - Something sinister is happening in the City of Sails.  A private eye with a briefcase full of scandalous photos is blown away. A businessman falls from the Harbour Bridge leaving a clue to the mysterious death of a teenage girl....

Inside Dope - The race to find the lost treasure of the Mr Asia syndicate has attracted an impressive field:  there's a disgraced ex-cop fresh out of a Bangkok jail, the Auckland underworld's drug kingpin, a rogue DEA man, an alluring CIA assassin, and a bunch of wild card entries including Tito Ihaka.

Guerilla Season - New Zealand is in the grip of urban terrorism.  The shadowy Aotearoa People's Army is on the rampage leaving a trail of messy corpses.  The counter-terrorism experts think they're on top of it, but Tito Ihaka reckons they couldn't catch a terrorist if someone's life depended on it.

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Relentlessly tough yet hilarious, ingeniously plotted and full of killer one-liners, and featuring a rogue's gallery of weird and wild characters, THE IHAKA TRILOGY brings together the three novels that put New Zealand crime writing on the map.

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Submitted by Karen on Fri, 06/08/2010 - 07:13 pm