Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Years

by Ian Wishart

Helen Clark has just been announced as the third most powerful appointee to the United Nations - running the UN Development Programme. This former New Zealand Prime Minister is known for trialling a range of UN social engineering policies in New Zealand, and is well known in liberal circles worldwide for her power and her achievements. With a budget in excess of $5 billion, and responsibility for introducing new UN social programmes and climate change policy, Helen Clark is about to do to the world what she did to New Zealand during a nine year reign as Prime Minister. To find out who Helen Clark really is, and what she brings to the international stage, Ian Wishart's #1 bestseller Absolute Power is the only place to start. This book is devastating. If you want to get inside the head of the new battering ram of the United Nations, this book tells all...

Genres: Politics

336 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published April 27, 2008

About the author

Ian Wishart is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of more than 20 books, who's now in his fourth decade in the news business. His writing style has often been compared to John Grisham by reviewers.

He's been a radio News Director, a Chief of Staff for TV3 News and a magazine editor. His work has featured in the Times of London, Daily Mail, New Zealand Herald and America's massive Coast to Coast radio programme - to name a few. His books Totalitaria, Air Con and Vitamin D became Amazon bestsellers worldwide.

While writing his first book, The Paradise Conspiracy, Wishart's TVNZ office was discovered to have been bugged, his home was broken into, the manuscript for the book stolen, and an attempt was made on his life. Needless to say, he survived to write the story.

The first four chapters of The Paradise Conspiracy inspired movie director Geoff Murphy ("Young Guns II", "Under Siege 2") to produce the movie "Spooked" starring Cliff Curtis ("Runaway Jury", "Live Free or Die Hard") in a loose portrayal of Wishart's role as an investigative journalist.

He's been shot at, tear-gassed and stalked, but Wishart says his motivation remains telling the stories that "need to be told", whether its new leads on cold case murders, or government espionage.

As well as writing books, Wishart also divides his time between operating the http://www.investigatedaily.com and http://www.ianwishartpublishing.com websites - the latter catering to his writing and publishing clients.

Reviews

[Adrian Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very interesting analysis of all the goings on during Helen Clark's time as prime minister. Quite a bit of the book isn't directly about Helen Clark but her ministers. The author, Ian Wishart, is biased. He is a staunch National party supporter and very conservative. He strongly dislikes Helen Clark. I'm now planning to read the recently published official biography by Denis Welch to get another side of the story.