Man of Secrets
"The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures, and provoked war between Māori along the way. The man who, rumour insists, used his power as our Minister of Defence to order the shooting of his own illegitimate son, the right-hand man of religious leader Te Kooti"--Publisher information.
