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Set in New Zealand, CRYSTAL ICE describes the empire of two Muslim brothers who own a successful Brazilian restaurant on Auckland’s busy Viaduct Harbour. A restaurant that is the legitimate front for the manufacture of crystal methamphetamine that takes place on a small rural farm near Runciman, just south of Auckland. The meth lab is the money mine that funds the development of a genetically engineered variant of the 1918 Spanish flu. Unlike COVID-19 this is a weaponized virus so terrible that it has the potential to become a global pandemic, killing millions of people.
CRYSTAL ICE also tells of an Auckland-based motorcycle gang called the Skorpions that has the distribution network that allows it to sell crystal methamphetamine in New Zealand and the mutualistic relationship that exists between the Croatian restaurateurs and the Skorpion leadership. It is a relationship that hinges on the Croatians successfully smuggling the precursor chemicals into the country and receiving 60% of the vast amounts of money generated by this illicit trade. When this relationship is threatened, by one of the Skorpion co-leaders withholding monies from the brothers, the Croatian’s revenge is both swift and brutal, resulting in the execution of the renegade Skorpion leader. The killing is the catalyst to a series of events that ultimately threatens the illicit drug ring.
Parallel to the power flux between the Croatians and the Skorpions is a young and naïve New Zealand Customs officer who gradually uncovers small and sometimes, seemingly insignificant clues that eventually leads him to discover the connection between the Croatian restaurateurs who manufacture the drugs, the Auckland motorcycle gang who distribute them and finally the terrorist cell that released the virus in the United States.
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