A PRIME MINISTER IS DEAD.
A COUNTRY IS IN CRISIS.
AND SOMEONE HAS TO TAKE CONTROL.
New Zealand is facing its greatest crisis in decades. A series of biosecurity emergencies has shaken the economy, divided the country and given Prime Minister Julia Castor extraordinary powers.
She insists they are temporary.
But Bruce Marks, one of her closest political allies, has begun to wonder whether she intends to give them up.
Cash Long, a bitter and ambitious MP, believes the danger is even greater. He is convinced that Julia is quietly dismantling the democratic system and that once her new powers become permanent, there may be no peaceful way to remove her.
Then a conspiracy begins inside Parliament.
Bruce must make an impossible choice between the woman he has trusted for years and the country he believes he is protecting.
When Julia is murdered, New Zealand descends into chaos.
But the conspirators soon discover that removing a leader is easier than controlling what comes afterwards.
As violence spreads through the streets, a former SAS officer named Mike Andrews emerges as the one politician capable of restoring order. Calm, charismatic and seemingly determined to save democracy, Mike takes control of a frightened nation.
But power has a way of changing the people who wield it.
And sometimes the greatest threat to democracy is not the person who seizes power.
It is the person the people willingly give it to.
A Storm in Wellington is a political thriller inspired by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, set in a modern New Zealand where ambition, loyalty and fear collide.
