It is the summer of 2020 and a strange new virus is being reported in China. Tamaiti Maharangi Pihema and his organisation, Nga Kaitiaki o Tamariki, have set in play a strategy to help the marginalized among their people when Covid-19 threatens to undermine all their hard work. This is the story of an old man’s love for his people; his family’s special relationship with a Pakeha family sharing their land, and a refusal to bow down and give up fighting in the face of adversity.Mammon is the sequel to Mark O’Rourke Chamberlain’s earlier novel, Whenua and features the descendants of Maharangi and Hinemoa; and Brendan and Kitty Kavanagh.