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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Tito Ihaka
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y separately published work icon Old School Tie Paul Thomas , Auckland : Hodder Moa Beckett , 1994 Z1441770 1994 single work novel crime

'Reggie Sparks is caught between blackmail and double-cross, between the Sydney Mafia and a street gang called the blood drinkers, and between an ex-SAS psychopath and maverick cop Tito Ihaka after turf warfare breaks out in Sydney.'

Source : publication summary

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y separately published work icon Inside Dope Paul Thomas , Port Melbourne : Mandarin , 1995 Z980597 1995 single work novel crime thriller

'After getting out of a Thai jail, Duane Ricketts had planned to stay away from drugs, but instead, following the last request of a dying man, he finds himself looking for 10 kilos of cocaine, during which time he comes across a body, and gains the unwanted interest of the Auckland police.'

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y separately published work icon Guerilla Season Paul Thomas , Auckland : Hodder Moa Beckett , 1996 Z1441789 1996 single work novel crime thriller

'Across the Tasman Sea, the Aotearoa People's Army is waging a bizarre offensive. A broadcaster is made to walk the plank and a journalist gets his neck rung. Counterterrorist experts think they are on top of it, but cop Tito Ihaka doesn't believe so. Soon he is in danger of being proved right.'

Source : Google books

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y separately published work icon Death on Demand Paul Thomas , London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2013 20667315 2013 single work novel crime

'Maori cop Tito Ihaka, “unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox and profane “, is a cop unable to play the police politics necessary for promotion, but a man who has a way with women, and he's a stubborn investigator with an uncanny instinct for the truth.
'Ihaka is in the wilderness, having fallen foul of the new regime at Auckland Central. Called back to follow up a strange twist in the unsolved case that got him into trouble in the first place, Ihaka finds himself hunting a shadowy hitman who could have several notches on his belt.
'His enemies want him off the case, but the bodies are piling up. Ihaka embarks on a quest to establish whether police corruption was behind the shooting of an undercover cop and--to complicate matters-- he becomes involved with an enigmatic female suspect who could hold the key to everything.'

Source : publication summary

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y separately published work icon Fallout Paul Thomas , London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2015 20667426 2015 single work novel crime

'Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance journalist has stumbled across information that Ihaka's father Jimmy, a trade union firebrand and renegade Marxist, didn't die of natural causes. The stories weave themselves into an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political manoeuvring and intrigue surrounding the USA's confrontation with New Zealand over its anti-nuclear stance.'

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